CRIMINAL AND IMMIGRATION LAW1
The term victim under the criminal justice system can be defined as any individual
suffering from any harm or trauma, either physical, emotional, economic or in terms of loss
of property.1 The primary rights that are granted to the victims in the criminal justice system
include the legal rights for restitution, advocacy, right to testify for the proceedings in
criminal justice and the right to be included in the proceedings in the criminal justice.2 The
term Human Trafficking can be defined as transferring people from one place to other
unlawfully by way of fraud, deception and coercion with the purpose of the exploitation of
the person.3 The victims in human trafficking are the individuals who are transported
unlawfully from one place to other for the purpose of exploiting them by using violence,
force, intimidation, coercion or deception4. In the given scenario it was seen that a 21 year old
Albanian woman named Anna (A), aspiring for a better life, wanted to move to London. In
her initial enquiry she found that the entry clearance provided by the EW for moving to
London, UK will be difficult and time consuming for her to secure. Some days later she is
observed to meet Tito (T) who A finds out has similar ambition of living in UK. A finds from
A that he has a friend Victor (V) who is an immigration consultant and helps people to move
to UK and set them up with a job in the country. He further stated that as the job is set up
before A would move to UK therefore she would be allowed by the UK Border Services to
work in UK and in a few months she would be able to apply for permanent residence in UK
and she can take her child to the country as well. Believing T’s words A approaches V who
asks for $1000 equivalent to Albanian currency and the additional cost of flight tickets to UK
which would be arranged by V. V further states to A that he will also provide her with the
documents necessary for her to move to UK legally. At the scheduled date of her flight A
1 Narayanan, R.L., Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, 2018. Network assisted automatic clustering to enable
victim to victim communication. U.S. Patent 10,051,439.
2 Pugach, D., Peleg, A. and Ronel, N., 2018. Lingual injury: Crime victims between the criminal justice system
and the media. International Review of Victimology, 24(1), pp.3-23.
3 Burke, M.C., 2017. Human trafficking: interdisciplinary perspectives. Routledge.
4 Breuer, G. and Daiber, D., 2019. Human Trafficking Awareness in the Emergency Care Setting. Journal of
Emergency Nursing, 45(1), pp.67-75.

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