CFP: Journal of Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Security

Call for Papers

Journal of Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Security

Special Issue:  Sham Marriages and Human Trafficking

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Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Security is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the trafficking of persons as a human rights violation that sets its victims on a perilous trajectory.  As a framework, the Journal will focus on disseminating information related to understanding the trends and patterns of human trafficking; basic structure of criminal organizations; and human insecurity. In this issue, the editors invite authors to submit abstracts that are empirical, theoretical, conceptual, legal, or policy in nature that are specific to Human Trafficking and Sham Marriages.  Sham marriages are those entered into for fraudulent, deceptive, coercive, and/or lucrative purposes.  In the context of human trafficking, women and girls are primarily the victims of such marriages. Addressing human trafficking and sham marriages requires a multidisciplinary approach. Scholars in the fields of economics, social work, law, public health, criminal justice, women/gender studies, sociology, public policy, history, business, psychology, and other fields are encouraged to submit journal article abstracts.  

Topics

Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

§  Sex trafficking and sham marriages

§  Child brides and human trafficking

§  Mail order brides and the former Soviet Union

§  Economics of poverty, marriage, and trafficking

§  Mail order brides and Asian countries

§  Sham marriages as transgressors against human security

§  Trafficking through sham marriages as a national security

§  Marriage fraud, trafficking, and immigration

§  Serial marriages and trafficking

§  Child brides and child soldiers

§  Intergenerational poverty, marriages, culture, and trafficking

§  Child brides and fetish priests

§  History of child brides

§  Child brides and civil wars

§  Organized crime rings, sham marriages, and trafficking

Abstract Submission Guidelines

1.     Title page (with paper title and author(s) contact information.

2.     Abstract: Concise description of the main idea – purpose, methods [if applicable], and proposed recommendations/implications of your work for practice, policy, research, law, etc.

3.     Must be 250 words or less with1.5 line spacing (this does not include the title page or references).

4.     References must be in APA format (except for legal papers) if used within the abstract.

5.     Size 12 Times New Roman font.

6.     Submitted electronically in Word, RTF or PDF form.

7.     Deadline to submit abstract:  September 30, 2014

Important Dates

September 30, 2014    Abstract Submission Deadline

October 15, 2014        Acknowledgment of Acceptance of Abstract by Email

December 31, 2014     Final Manuscript Due; 150 word abstract; 5-6 keywords; title, author(s) affiliation,   correspondence and email address(es);  10,000 words max manuscript including references, figures, tables, and title page  [APA 6th edition – except for legal papers]

February 15, 2015      Accept/Revise/Reject Decision after Rigorous Peer Review

Lead Editor

Siddhartha Sarkar, PhD, PDF (The Netherlands), CAF (London, UK) Associate Professor

Commonwealth Academic Fellow, SOAS, University of London, UK
A.C.College of Commerce, India

[email protected]

Guest Editor for Special Issue

Jacquelyn C.A. Meshelemiah, PhD, Associate Professor

The Ohio State University, College of Social Work

Columbus, Ohio 43210-1162

United States of America

[001]-614-292-9887

[email protected]

For Manuscript Submission information please see “For Authors” at http://www.brownwalker.com/ojs/index.php/JTOCS/index

For questions and submissions, please contact Dr. Siddhartha Sarkar at [email protected]