Psychology of Traffickers

Insights from Romanian Prisons

This book offers a rare and methodologically rigorous examination of the moral and psychological worlds of individuals convicted of human trafficking. The book analyzes how exploitation is rationalized, normalized, and sustained over time within conditions of inequality, migration, and institutional constraint.

Psychology of Traffickers: Insights from Romanian Prisons offers a rare and methodologically rigorous examination of the moral and psychological worlds of individuals convicted of human trafficking. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 incarcerated traffickers in Romania, the book analyzes how exploitation is rationalized, normalized, and sustained over time within conditions of inequality, migration, and institutional constraint.

Rather than portraying traffickers as aberrant or pathological, Dr. Ludmila Bogdan situates their actions within everyday social and mora