We shall explore the wider geo-political and international environments in which trafficking for criminal exploitation is occurring.  What are the range of forces and economic challenges and opportunities driving Trafficking for Criminalisation which is now manifested across the globe.

We shall be presenting an overview on the main challenges of Human Trafficking for Criminalisation, how this is manifesting through Organised Crime Group activity and is now being actively parsed by international and national law enforcement. 

The Giovanni Falcone Lecture

The Historical roots of criminalisation and the degradation of the democratic vision
Refreshing our lens

Keynote Speech

 Professor Leo Luca Orlando former Mayor of Palermo, Founder of Mosaico Foundation.

‘A city’s journey in deconstructing Organised Crime: Palermo 1970-2020’.

Professor Luis C de Baca: Professor from Practice, Law School, University of Michigan, former Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. State Dept. Respondent and Keynote Speech 2

 ‘The shape of contemporary Slavery and Trafficking for Criminalisation’.

Session 2

The Morning will address some of the key geo-economic features presently at work in the movement of Organised Crime and the geo-political arenas outside of the UK, which are being impacted by OCGs harnessing vulnerable populations into their criminal pursuits.                   

Sessions 3

The afternoon will explore the impact of terror, civil and inter-national war and the destabilisation wreaked on populations, making people vulnerable to OCG manipulation, and states open to long-term dependencies on OCG funding streams, political presence, and tactics.

Session 4

The day closes with a reflection on the multiple challenges which arise within migratory flows from areas of civil destabilisation, with the triple layered problems of status, legitimacy, and threats from OCG facilitators combining to occlude disclosures as victims are moved cross border. 

Different Modes of Criminalisation

Amongst the areas we shall be exploring in the morning will be:

Session 1

Illicit Drugs – their Production, movement, and Sales, addressing collateral damage identifying the victims corralled into perpetration of crimes.

Session 2

Retail and Mobile Banditry – Counting the cost, raising its profile, exploring prevention, and outlining its business model Counterfeit merchandise – its production, logistics and sales IP theft and the hacking of banking systems for OCG and hostile state gain.

Session 3

In the afternoon we shall dedicate a panel discussion around the rise of ‘fraud factories’ in Asia, the emergence of trafficking for victimisation on an industrial scale, with speakers from Taiwan, America, Cambodia discussing the challenges of identification of ‘factories’, the protection of victims, and the interdiction of this high-tech enabled criminality.

Session 4

Finally, we shall explore the ‘wheel of coercion’ which is deployed on so many victims of trafficking, and the perverse deployment of states’ protection and enforcement services in criminal exploitation OCGs tactics.

Systems of Justice in the Dock

Session 1
Keynote   Perpetrators or Victims? Punishment as a Problem

Speaker: Prof. Leo Zaibert  Andreas von Hirsch Professor of Penal Theory and Ethics University of Cambridge

Author of the agenda setting Rethinking Punishment, and the powerful challenge of ‘Dirty Hands and Impossible Stories’ (CUP 2018), Prof Zaibert will address the struggle in our moral imaginary as we engage the legal system. How ‘societies’ authorise punishment of the other – the toll it takes on all of us, and whether in the twenty first century we can embrace a better way through the ethical and psychological damage failing to ‘get it right’ does to us all.

Prof Zaibert will reflect on some of the recent trials emerging as a result of Trafficking legislation and OCG activities – and sets up our final day with a fascinating introduction to our next sessions exploring the decision to prosecute, the invocation of Section 45 and trial by jury, which we shall undertake over the rest of the day.

Look forward to a lively and provocative session with Prof Zaibert ready to engage in opening up the wider conversation with symposium participants.  

Session 2

We shall explore the paradigm shifting Section 45 in the Modern Slavery Act 2015, and with leading UK Barrister Caroline Haughey joined by Professor Roland Knobbout from Leiden University, and Californian Prosecutor Benjamin Greer explore the fundamental shifts taking place in our court rooms,  prosecution decision making and novel proposals for addressing the safeguarding of victim/perpetrators which are surfacing.

Session 3  In the Dock

Professor Nicola Padfield (Institute of Criminology University of Cambridge)  will be joined by Mumbai Judge Swati Chauhan, Ann Lukowiak JP and Hon. Esohe Aghatise for a fascinating and enlightening conversation around what actually happens in courts when magistrates and judges encounter Trafficking in Criminality cases, and find themselves ‘making a judgement’ and setting out the legal safeguards of jurisprudence to ensure that victims are not subjected to further ‘victimisation’ by the court as the legal articulation of the State.

Session 4 Making it Local

Our final reflections and call to action comes from our Key- Note Speaker Prof LeoLuca Orlando who will bring our symposium to a conclusion – with a clear call to localisation, making some of the learning we undertake together over the three days land in the places in which we live and work. As founder of the Global Parliament of Mayors, Prof Orlando plans to be joined by some City Mayors from the UK and other nations who are part of this worldwide network of City Czars, seeking to make a difference for their citizens, and to build resistance to the undermining currents which our exploration of OCG exploitation in the world of drugs, pimping, counterfeit goods, fraud, money laundering, mobile banditry, forced begging, retail theft, IP and business sabotage represents.