Group
Subdivision

041 Human trafficking or slavery

Latest release
Australian and New Zealand Standard Offence Classification (ANZSOC)
Reference period
2023

0410 Human trafficking or slavery

Human trafficking is the facilitation of movement within and across borders for the purpose of exploiting a person’s labour or services, or intimate relationship upon destination. This is typically accomplished by intimidating, coercing, or deceiving a person. Human trafficking occurs where a person organises or facilitates the movement (or proposed movement) of another person across or within a country’s borders, or receives the other person, through coercion, threat, or deception and/or for the purpose of exploitation.

Inclusions:

  • Debt bondage
  • Deceptive recruitment for trafficking or slavery
  • Forced labour
  • Forced marriage
  • Harbour a victim of trafficking
  • Human trafficking for sex work
  • Ill-treatment of a person under slavery conditions
  • Servitude offences including domestic and/or sexual servitude
  • Slavery conditions within a workplace
  • Trafficking a person within a country or between countries
  • Trafficking of human organs
  • Other human trafficking or slavery offences

Exclusions:

  • People smuggling – coded to 1522 Migration offences
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