Human Trafficking in the Criminal Legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany

Abstract

As a serious international crime directed against human dignity, fundamental freedoms and rights, human trafficking is, based on international documents of the UN and the Council of Europe, prescribed as a specific criminal offense in several European criminal legislations. Given that the source of this incrimination is found in international standards, its content, characteristics, and forms or modes of manifestation are regulated in different ways in national laws. The paper analyzes the concept, elements and characteristics of the criminal offense of human trafficking in criminal legislations Federal Republic of Germany. In this context, it points on the legislations in terms of the legal regulation of the criminal offense of human trafficking in various forms of manifestation.