CRIMINAL INTENT IN THE CRIME OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING : A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Abstract

The crime of human trafficking is an organized crime as it includes all legitimate and illegal behavior that turns a person into a mere commodity or a victim to be disposed of by professional intermediaries across national borders with the intent of exploiting him in low-paid work or sexual acts or the like, whether the act was done with the will of the victim This crime has characteristics that distinguish it from other crimes, and it does not depart from two main points. Among the transnational crimes, the crime of human trafficking is one of the intentional crimes whose moral pillar is based on the general criminal intent and the private criminal intent, and this is the focus of our study.