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.

• 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

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