Human Trafficking Hysteria: Historical and Modern Perspectives on Moral Panics, Media, and Crime

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Sarah Hupp Williamson (University of West Georgia)

Human Trafficking Hysteria

Historical and Modern Perspectives on Moral Panics, Media, and Crime

Sarah Hupp Williamson (University of West Georgia)

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Routledge
03 January 2025

Media studies; Migration, immigration & emigration; Crime & criminology; Organised crime; Criminal justice law

Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media

Through cultural criminology, this book brings together existing research to provide an overview of historical and modern moral panics related to human trafficking.

What do you picture when you hear the words human trafficking? Perhaps you imagine someone kidnapped and sold as shown in films or worry that sex trafficking increasingly occurs online or in big cities during major events. While sex trafficking does occur, the reality of human trafficking is complex, though this reality is often obscured by the media. The media has played a large role in shaping understanding of this crime, with panics, conspiracies, and misinformation abounding. This book uses cultural criminology to break down historical and modern panics to understand the links between media portrayals of human trafficking, perpetuation of stereotypes, and influences on policy. The text examines the impacts of human trafficking panics perpetuated by media, including understanding the origins of human trafficking in the nineteenth-century White slave panic, the ways that popular media perpetuates stereotypes, the reality of trafficking at sporting events, and the role of social media in generating misinformation.

Human Trafficking Hysteria is a valuable resource for criminology and sociology classes, as well as special-topics classes on sex crimes, victimization, or the media.

By: Sarah Hupp Williamson (University of West Georgia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032573564
ISBN 10: 1032573562
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media
Pages: 122
Publication Date: 03 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah Hupp Williamson is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of West Georgia. Her several lines of research examine the intersections of globalization, inequality, and crime. She is the author of Human Trafficking in the Era of Global Migration: Unraveling the Impact of Neoliberal Economic Policy and Criminology Explains Human Trafficking.