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The Case of the “Missing Victims” of Modern Slavery: A Comparison with Domestic Abuse (2024)
Book Chapter
Green, S., & Heys, A. (2024). The Case of the “Missing Victims” of Modern Slavery: A Comparison with Domestic Abuse. In M. Krambia Kapardis, C. Clark, A. Warria, & M. Dion (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Modern Slavery (359-380). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58614-9_18

Victims of modern slavery are poorly understood and badly counted. This is because modern slavery is a vague, contested and largely invisible crime. When it does reach the political and public conscience it is usually in the context of illegal migrat... Read More about The Case of the “Missing Victims” of Modern Slavery: A Comparison with Domestic Abuse.

Behind Battle Lines Analysing Commanders' Decisions Around Conflict-Related Sexual Violence And Exploitation And Their Penal Consequence (2024)
Journal Article
Heys, A., Veldhuizen Ochodničanová, E., Veldhuizen Ochodničanová, E. M., & Muraszkiewicz, J. (2024). Behind Battle Lines Analysing Commanders' Decisions Around Conflict-Related Sexual Violence And Exploitation And Their Penal Consequence. Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, 5(1), 275-303. https://doi.org/10.7590/266644724X17187028804913

This paper analyses the motivation behind military commanders’ perpetration, facilitation and tolerance of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), and considers the decision making behind the imposing of punitive measures.
It begins by investigati... Read More about Behind Battle Lines Analysing Commanders' Decisions Around Conflict-Related Sexual Violence And Exploitation And Their Penal Consequence.

"Freedom is a constant struggle”: Women’s journeys after modern slavery in the United Kingdom (2024)
Thesis
Nghishitende, N. J. "Freedom is a constant struggle”: Women’s journeys after modern slavery in the United Kingdom. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4867012

This thesis provides insights into the journeys of women who have left situations classified as modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) and are remodelling their lives in the UK. Employing critical methodologies, this thesis utilises narrative an... Read More about "Freedom is a constant struggle”: Women’s journeys after modern slavery in the United Kingdom.

Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement, by Andrea Nicholson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xix, 233 pp., £75 (Hardback), ISBN 9781316510803 (2023)
Journal Article
Heys, A. (online). Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement, by Andrea Nicholson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xix, 233 pp., £75 (Hardback), ISBN 9781316510803. Slavery & Abolition, 44(3), 577-579. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2023.2239015

Evaluation of Humberside Serious & Organised Crime Community Coordinator (SOC CC) (2023)
Report
Santorso, S., Laverick, W., Kidd, A., & Dal Santo, L. P. Evaluation of Humberside Serious & Organised Crime Community Coordinator (SOC CC). Home Office

Introduction:
The principal purpose of this project was to evaluate the Serious and Organised Crime Community Coordinator (SOC CC) in Grimsby and Hull. The Home Office’s SOC CC project has aimed to bring together all the existing support of the stat... Read More about Evaluation of Humberside Serious & Organised Crime Community Coordinator (SOC CC).

The UK's statutory defence for victims of modern slavery and its narrow understanding of victimhood (2023)
Journal Article
Heys, A. (online). The UK's statutory defence for victims of modern slavery and its narrow understanding of victimhood. Journal of Criminal Law, https://doi.org/10.1177/00220183231179181

The Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings stipulates a ‘non-punishment principle’ which provides for the possibility of not imposing penalties on victims for crimes they were compelled to commit. This paper invest... Read More about The UK's statutory defence for victims of modern slavery and its narrow understanding of victimhood.

From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents (2023)
Book
Heys, A. (2023). From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents. Oxford University Press

Description:
From Conflict to Modern Slavery considers the lives of people after they have fled conflict and arrived in the UK. The book draws on insights from interviews with those who have experienced the UK immigration system, and observations ar... Read More about From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents.

Identifying Pathways to Support British Victims of Modern Slavery towards Safety and Recovery: A Scoping Study (2022)
Report
Heys, A., Barlow, C., Murphy, C., Wilkinson, S., & Gleich, L. (2022). Identifying Pathways to Support British Victims of Modern Slavery towards Safety and Recovery: A Scoping Study. Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre

Since 2013, the number of British nationals referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) as potential victims of modern slavery has increased year on year, rising from 90 in 2013 to 3,952 in 2021. These figures include potential adult and chil... Read More about Identifying Pathways to Support British Victims of Modern Slavery towards Safety and Recovery: A Scoping Study.

A Review Of Modern Slavery In Britain Understanding The Unique Experience Of British Victims And Why It Matters (2022)
Journal Article
Kidd, A., Barlow, C., Murphy, C., & McKee, A. (2022). A Review Of Modern Slavery In Britain Understanding The Unique Experience Of British Victims And Why It Matters. Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice, 5(1), 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/25166069221117190

This article offers an original contribution to the field of victimization studies by investigating the current context of, and responses to, British nationals who are victims of modern slavery in the UK (BVs). Through the examination of National Ref... Read More about A Review Of Modern Slavery In Britain Understanding The Unique Experience Of British Victims And Why It Matters.