Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Legal Regimes
2. The Canadian Victim
3. Policing Trafficking
4. Trafficking on Trial
5. The Villain
Conclusion
Appendix A: Human Trafficking Cases: Race, Age, Gender, and Visual Depictions of Accused in Media
Appendix B: Human Trafficking Charges and Outcomes
Appendix C: Interview Participants
Appendix D: Interview Questions
Appendix E: Case Summaries
Appendix F: Expanded Methods
References

About the Author

Katrin Roots is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Reviews

"Katrin Roots's thoroughly researched and groundbreaking book expertly challenges conventional understandings of human trafficking in Canada. By critically analysing a range of empirical data, Roots uncovers how police, lawyers, and judges enforce and interpret anti-trafficking laws, and in doing so, legitimize a powerful 'human trafficking matrix' based largely on sexist, classist, and racist stereotypes. This in-depth and compelling legal analysis is both urgent and timely."--Emily van der Meulen, Professor of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University
"Filled with nuanced analysis and exciting insights, The Domestication of Human Trafficking is a must-read for anyone interested in human trafficking or sex work in Canada. Drawing on her meticulous empirical research, Katrin Roots examines how trafficking is constituted in Canada while deftly unpacking the classed, raced, and gendered roots of the sex work/trafficking conflation. In the process, the author sheds much-needed light on the multifaceted impacts and implications of normative frames. Remarkably - particularly given how complex the terrain and how textured the analysis - the book is accessible and highly readable." --Chris Bruckert, Professor of Criminology, University of Ottawa