Author: James Brown

The many facets of human trafficking.

For many years, my academic research has revolved around the data of human trafficking; trying to determine how we can improve data collection and trying to quantify the size of the problem to determine if it can be adequately resources.

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The benefits of conferences

Last week GREAT, in collaboration with the Ontario Tech University hosted “Together Lets Stop Traffick” 2019 (the 2nd Annual Human Trafficking conference for Ontario Tech University). We were fortunate to be able to draw upon labour trafficking experts from the

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The importance of dialogue

One of the goals of GREAT is to advance and support dialogue on the issue of human trafficking, between practitioners, advocates, policy advisers, legislators and support workers. It is through dialogue that we can learn each others successes, challenges, and

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Human trafficking and the impact on your community.

As discussed in the first article, human trafficking is about exploitation.  It is a heinous crime that sees victims undertake work (including sex trade) against their will.  Sometimes the work is undertaken under threats of violence against them or their

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Developing your organizational response to human trafficking.

As a highly dynamic and unpredictable crime, the response to human trafficking calls on police management/leadership to plan and systematically encourage organization-wide capacity and readiness. In the previous article I examined the issue of leadership commitment in combating human trafficking,

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Leadership commitment in battling human trafficking.

The social and community issues that police leaders are challenged with today are broad and varied, from domestic violence to fentanyl overdoses to mental illness with a myriad of other issues in the news that require organizational response. Each issue

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How is your police agency responding to human trafficking?

Human trafficking is getting more “air play” in the media, more public exposure through film and television, and more legislative recognition, especially in western democracies. However, there are massive gaps in our understanding of the issue, not least of which

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Welcome to our site

The GREAT site has been designed to provide background information on GREAT, our journey to creation, and our anticipated path to meeting the needs of our constituent community. We hope to provide relevant information to the broader community, but we

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