Human security, transnational crime and human trafficking: Asian and Western perspectives/ edited by Shiro Okubo and Louise Shelley. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011. - xiv, 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Transnational crime and human security; 1 Globalization, human security, and the right to live in peace; 2 Human security objectives and the fight against transnational organized crime and terrorism; Part Ii: Transnational organized crime and the legal response; 3 Transnational organized crime: The German response; 4 International organized crime operating in Western Europe: The judicial and police approach against organized crime in the European Union. 5 Crime in Japan and its relation to international organized crime6 Drug trafficking in Korea; Part Iii: Human smuggling and trafficking; 7 International trafficking: An important component of transnational crime; 8 Foreign women's life and work in the entertainment sector of Korea from the human trafficking perspective; 9 Trafficking in persons in the Americas: An overview; Part Iv: Responding to human smuggling and trafficking; 10 The Eu combat against illegal immigration, smuggling, and trafficking in human beings: Its impact on Spanish law. 11 Japanese experience and response in combating trafficking12 The trafficking of Thai women to Japan and countermeasures of the Thai government; Index.

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Transnational crime.
Transnational crime--Asia.
Human trafficking
Human trafficking--Asia.
Human smuggling.
Human smuggling--Asia.

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