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3 - The Trafficking of Children in the USA

from PART IA - Varieties of Transnational Crimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2019

By
Meredith Dank  and
Andrea Hughes
Edited by
Mangai Natarajan
Mangai Natarajan
Affiliation:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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International and Transnational Crime and Justice , pp. 18 - 23
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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