1st Edition
Psychology of Traffickers Insights from Romanian Prisons
Chapter 1: Romania’s Human Trafficking Reality, Between Borders and Lives
Chapter 2: Listening to the Unheard: Reframing Traffickers in the Literature and the Field
Chapter 3: Listening to the Unheard: Traffickers, Narrative, and the Moral Architecture of Exploitation
Chapter 4: The Language of Exploitation: Gender, Power, and the Moral Grammar of Trafficking
Chapter 5: Social Inequality as Structure: Trafficking, Risk, and Penal Selectivity
Chapter 6: Typologies of Human Traffickers: Moral Coping and Motivational Pathways
Chapter 7: Intimacy as Control: Grooming, False Friendship, and the Lover-Boy Frame
Chapter 8: Denial, Dehumanization, and Moral Distance
Chapter 9: Opportunism, Protection, and the Ordinary Architecture of Exploitation
Chapter 10: When the State Becomes the Trafficker: Power, Corruption, and Impunity
Chapter 11: Inherited Harm: Family, Loyalty, and the Savior Illusion
Chapter 12: When Exploitation Looks Like Business
Chapter 13: Self-Made Innocents
Victimhood, Justification, and Moral Boundaries
Chapter 14: Fragile Masculinities: Shame, Worth, and the Gendered Logic of Harm
Chapter 15: When Women Are Never Quite Victims
Stigma, Gendered Poverty, and the Social Production of Exploitation
Chapter 16: From Typologies to Transformation
Rethinking Policy and Intervention in Human Trafficking
Conclusion: Trafficking in the Grey Zone
Meaning, Gender, and Structural Failure
Appendix
Biography
Ludmila Bogdan, PhD, is a sociologist at the Copenhagen Business School and recent visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law. Her work lies at the intersection of criminology, sociology, and forensic psychology, with a focus on human trafficking, moral reasoning, and inequality. She has held academic appointments at Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Copenhagen, and has worked with the United Nations (UN) and other international organizations.
