The project Principal Investigator Dr Christiana Gregoriou summarises the research we are undertaking, and outlines its expected impact, on Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research's website:
"The primary purpose of this research
is to investigate the portrayal of transnational human trafficking in
contemporary crime fiction, the genre of true crime, and news media, given that
fictional and supposed factual representations, and media coverage, help shape
public knowledge of such crime. This research will investigate how aligned such
representations of trafficking are, whilst assuming that fictional and factual
representations as well as wider media coverage can shape public perception and
indeed inform offender/victim and law enforcement policy. Specifically, our
research into human trafficking will consider the interrelated representations
of victims, the investigation/policing/prevention of trafficking and the wider
framing of public perceptions concerning transnational governance and global
justice.
This
research will benefit researchers and organisations seeking to gain a greater
comprehension of human trafficking and its representation in a rapidly changing
national and global political climate. We contribute to heightening the
awareness of the role cultural, media and literary representations play in
constructing but also challenging and thereby changing perceptions of human
trafficking and crime, and, in turn, impacting on policing matters and social
policy."
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