Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8403141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Findlay (0000-0002-6653-9450, University of Salford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 504-520 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azae061 |
| OpenAlex | W4401792681 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
Resistance to entering the UK government’s modern slavery victim identification mechanism is widespread and part of normal practices of state evasion that shape the lives of large numbers of insufficiently documented people. This article provides evidence of the role practitioners play in producing referrals into that mechanism in spite of such resistance and in spite of the harms caused by the identification mechanism itself, which is integrated into the immigration system. Though referrals are driven by practitioners, those entering the mechanism are said to be ‘abusing’ the system. This dynamic is considered in relation to a common trend of the liberal state, in which state practices are externalized onto others, while it claims to itself be the victim of violence
Biology · Criminology · Identification (biology) · Programming language · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Psychology · Sex work and related issues
The Nation-State and Violence
Violence and the Word
Enlightened Common Sense
The Modern World-System IV
Doing Qualitative Research Differently
Comparison of Convenience Sampling and Purposive Sampling
Critique of Violence (Reflections)
The Causal Power of Social Structures
The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
Us and Them
Security and Terror
The UK’s hostile environment
Conflicts as Property
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Faith, bordering and modern slavery
Asylum and the Expansion of Deportation in the United Kingdom
Exploring the Interface between Asylum, Human Trafficking and/or 'Modern Slavery' within a Hostile Environment in the UK
Benevolent Policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls
Designed to fail
From Max Weber
County lines
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |