Game Theory and the Human Trafficking Dilemma

Human trafficking is a widespread and compound social, economic, and human rights issue occurring in every region of the world. While there have been an increasing number of anti-human trafficking studies from the Operations Research and Analytics domains in recent years, no systematic review of this literature currently exists. We fill this gap by providing a systematic literature review that identifies and classifies the body of Operations Research and Analytics research related to the anti-human trafficking domain, thereby illustrating the collective impact of the field to date. We classify 142 studies to identify current trends in methodologies, theoretical approaches, data sources, trafficking contexts, target regions, victim-survivor demographics, and focus within the well-established 4Ps principles. Using these findings, we discuss the extent to which the current literature aligns with the global demographics of human trafficking and identify existing research gaps to propose an agenda for Operations Research and Analytics researchers.

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Operations research and analytics to combat human trafficking: A systematic review of academic literature

Dimas

Konrad

Maass

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Strategies of the Parties to Criminal Proceedings From the Position of Game Theory

Plakhotnik¹

2022

BulKNULS

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The article includes the analysis of the principles of criminal proceedings under Article 22 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine"Adversarial parties and freedom to present their evidence to the court and prove their persuasiveness before the court" from the standpoint of game theory as methods of mathematical analysis and evaluation of criminal proceedings and optimal solutions in the conditions of formal procedural confrontation. The works of domestic and foreign scientists considering the problems of the criminal process and those scientists studying the theory of games in criminal proceedings are analyzed. The functions of the parties to the criminal proceedings, such as the functions of the prosecution and the defense, are considered as well as the equality of their powers is investigated. The application of strategies of the parties to criminal proceedings by analogy with players in game theory is substantiated, grounding on the fact that the strategies of the parties to the criminal proceedings can be deciphered in the appropriate matrix of actions of all parties in each stage of the criminal proceedings. The concept of strategy, antagonistic and matrix games is defined. An example of the maximum and minimum strategy of the parties to criminal proceedings in the activities of the prosecution and the defense is provided. The asymmetry of powers of the parties at the stage of pre-trial investigation is considered and the formal equality of the parties to the criminal proceedings in their interaction with the court is noted. It is concluded that the choice of the appropriate strategy by one of the parties to the criminal proceedings affects the strategy of all parties as a whole.

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Game Theory and the Human Trafficking Dilemma

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Operations research and analytics to combat human trafficking: A systematic review of academic literature

Operations research and analytics to combat human trafficking: A systematic review of academic literature

Strategies of the Parties to Criminal Proceedings From the Position of Game Theory

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