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On 3 October our team of investigators launched our PaCCS Research Innovation Award project entitled "Representation of transnational human trafficking in present-day news media, true crime & fiction."   PaCCS stands for Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research.  Our project is awarded under the  Transnational Organised Crime theme.

Our project Facebook page can be found here.  We tweet from @TransNatCrime which can be found here.
Our Principal Investigator, Dr Christiana Gregoriou, summarises the aims of the research project:

 "The primary purpose of this research is to investigate the portrayal of transnational human trafficking in contemporary crime fiction, the genre of true crime, and news media, given that fictional and supposed factual representations, and media coverage, help shape public knowledge of such crime. This research will investigate how aligned such representations of trafficking are, whilst assuming that fictional and factual representations as well as wider media coverage can shape public perception and indeed inform offender/victim and law enforcement policy." 

 (http://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/representation-of-transnational-human-trafficking/)

 Over the next 12 months we will be investigating various representations of human trafficking, exploring the politics of representing crime, and examining the ways in which these representations contribute to shaping public perceptions of human trafficking.

 Read more about the project on the PaCCs website.
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