TY - GEN
T1 - Sex trafficking from a supply chain systems perspective
AU - Stapleton, Amy
AU - Chisholm, Nick
AU - Stapleton, Larry
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Human trafficking is the third most profitable international criminal activity. This study demonstrates that human rights violations are organised into sophisticated supply chains. Supply chain systems provide integrated semi-automated logistics capability for the flow of goods and services into a market. Few studies of international stability examine human trafficking, and sex trafficking specifically, from this perspective. Policies rarely address sex trafficking as a supply chain system, and therefore an important part of policy formulation. This preliminary study explored sex trafficking from a supply chain systems perspective. It gathered secondary data which is presented and interpreted. Conclusions were drawn about important factors that facilitate sex trafficking supply chain systems and possible policy interventions which are likely to be effective. The primary contribution of this paper is to demonstrate that sex trafficking, as an example of a systematic human rights violation, can be examined from a control system and process management perspective.
AB - Human trafficking is the third most profitable international criminal activity. This study demonstrates that human rights violations are organised into sophisticated supply chains. Supply chain systems provide integrated semi-automated logistics capability for the flow of goods and services into a market. Few studies of international stability examine human trafficking, and sex trafficking specifically, from this perspective. Policies rarely address sex trafficking as a supply chain system, and therefore an important part of policy formulation. This preliminary study explored sex trafficking from a supply chain systems perspective. It gathered secondary data which is presented and interpreted. Conclusions were drawn about important factors that facilitate sex trafficking supply chain systems and possible policy interventions which are likely to be effective. The primary contribution of this paper is to demonstrate that sex trafficking, as an example of a systematic human rights violation, can be examined from a control system and process management perspective.
KW - Developing countries
KW - International stability
KW - Management systems
KW - Supply chain systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84881068734&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3182/20120611-3-IE-4029.00006
DO - 10.3182/20120611-3-IE-4029.00006
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84881068734
SN - 9783902823205
T3 - IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
SP - 15
EP - 20
BT - SWIIS 2012 - IFAC Int. Conference on Int. Stability and Systems Engineering, SWIIS 2012 is Organised in Conjunction with the 2nd Int. Systems Engineering and Systems Management Conference, SESEM 2012
PB - IFAC Secretariat
T2 - 2012 IFAC International Conference on International Stability and Systems Engineering, SWIIS 2012. Held in Conjunction with the 2nd International Systems Engineering and Systems Management Conference, SESEM 2012
Y2 - 11 June 2012 through 13 June 2012
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