Prostitution and Human Trafficking

Part I. Investigation on the Demand for Trafficked Women.- Introduction - Organization of the Book.- Research Methodology.- Review of the Research Studies on the Demand of Prostitution in the European Union.- Part II. Ethnographic Perspectives on Four Selected EU Countries.- Profiling the Demand for Trafficked Women in Italy, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in Italy, Legislation and Policies in Italy, Clients and Their Attitudes Towards Trafficked Women in Italy, Policy Implications.- Profiling the Demand for Trafficked Women in Romania, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in Romania, Legislation and Policies in Romania, Clients and their Attitudes Towards Trafficked Women in Romania, Policy Implications.- Profiling the Demand for Trafficked Women in Sweden, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in Sweden, Legislation and Policies in Sweden, Clients and their Attitudes Towards Trafficked Women in the Sweden, Policy Implications.- Profiling the Demand for Trafficked Women in the Netherlands, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the Netherlands, Legislation and Policies in the Netherlands, Clients and their Attitudes Towards Trafficked Women in the Netherlands, Policy Implications.- Part III. Perspectives on the Clients Through Internet Survey.- Results of the Internet Survey in Italy, the Netherlands, Romania and Sweden.- Conclusions, Analysing Convergences and Divergences Between Countries, Addressing the Demand to Reduce the Trafficking in Women for Sexual Expoitation.

Andrea Di Nicola earned his Ph.D. in Criminology at the University of Bari-Trento on 11 June 2001. Since 2004 he has been a researcher in Sociology of Deviance at the School of Law at the University of Trento (Italy), member of the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Trento, and research coordinator of the Trento office of Transcrime, Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime, University of Trento-Catholic University of Milan (Italy). Since 2004 he has taught Criminology and Applied Criminology at the School of Law at the University of Trento. Since 2003 he has been member of the Academic Board of the International Ph.D. in Criminology of the Catholic University of Milan, coordinated by Prof. Ernesto Savona, where he has tutored several foreign and Italian Ph.D. students. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Academic Board of the Ph.D. in International Studies of the University of Trento, coordinated by Prof. Vincent Della Sala. He has spent research periods abroad in Europe and Australia. In December 1996, he graduated summa cum laude from the School of Law at the University of Trento with a thesis in Criminology. Under the supervision of Prof. Ernesto Savona, Dr. Di Nicola is coordinator of all the research projects developed in the Trento office of Transcrime. Between 2001 and 2007, he has been project manager or lead researcher for more than 20 national and international research projects carried out by Transcrime jointly with other leading EU research centres or researchers, in the field of crime prevention, crime risk assessment as well as economic and organised crime. Many of these projects have concerned trafficking in human beings.

Andrea Cauduro is a researcher at Transcrime and a Ph.D. candidate in criminology at the Catholic University in Milan (final discussion foreseen in february 2008). In 2004 he graduated in law with a final dissertation in criminology on trafficking in human beingsin the