Marijke Malsch is a professor of Empirical Legal studies, Open Universiteit Netherlands, and fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). Janine Janssen is a professor of Criminology and Legal Anthropology at Open Universiteit Netherlands, professor of Violence in Relations of Dependency at Avans University of Applied Sciences and at the Police Academy.

The chapters connect by examining human trafficking from multiple angles—legal, social, practical, and empirical—creating a comprehensive narrative that addresses both the challenges and potential solutions in combating human trafficking and supporting the rights and well-being of individuals in the sex industry. – Lisa R. Muftic, Western New England University “This book offers a nuanced and comprehensive overview of current debates in antitrafficking discourse. The editors foreground the book with a necessary questioning of the forced/free binary which is integral for examining the continuum of harm and risk that sex workers and victim-survivors face. I recommend this text to all scholars and students interested in forced/free labour sex industry, and gendered inequality. … This is a very valuable and timely book, and the editors have done an excellent job in bringing a range of authors together.”– Dr Gemma Ahearne, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool

• Law and regulation Chapter 1 - Marijke Malsch & Janine Janssen - Introduction Chapter 2 - Mridula Shobinath - Impact of international and transnational legal instruments on anti-trafficking legislations in Europe Chapter 3 - Nicolle Zeegers - The shop floor effects of prostitution policies in preventing human trafficking Chapter 4 - Gerrie Lodder - Trafficked and on the run: rights to residence for asylum-seeking victims of trafficking in anti-trafficking law and asylum law The sex worker Chapter 5 - Irena Fercíková Konecná - Sphere of influence: the governance of sex workers' rights in contemporary Europe Chapter 6 - Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang & Jeffrey S. Wilkinson - Overcoming insult and injury: China transgender sex workers and intimate partner violence Chapter 7 - Emily Kenway - ‘You feel that you could have done so much more’: the practices and potentials of sex worker founded/led groups in tackling sex sector exploitation Chapter 8 - Darko Datzer and Eldan Mujanovic - Profiles of victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation in Bosnia and Herzegovina Combating human trafficking Chapter 9 - Warner ten Kate - The programmatic approach and the barrier model: are we all on board? Chapter 10 - Gunilla S. Ekberg and Kajsa Wahlberg - Twenty-five years of enforcing the ban against the purchase of sexual services in Sweden Chapter 11 - Marijke Malsch and Inga van Uchelen - Tactics used by exploiters to draw their victims into sex work The client Chapter 12 - Marijke Malsch, Miriam Wijkman, Anne Koolenbrander, Marthe Schotsman and Rik Schoon - The role of clients identifying forced sex work Chapter 13 - Suzanne Hoff and Merel Brouwer - A critical look at the criminalization of the “Use of Services” of trafficked persons Conclusions Chapter 14 - Marijke Malsch and Janine Janssen -Concluding chapter - human trafficking in the sex industry: practices and law