Trade and trafficking in human beings are among the main activities of organized crime, prerequisites for which are poverty, affecting a large part of the population, the weak control of law enforcement bodies and the expanding to the west sex market. In the research of this phenomenon, the Center studies the big picture and trends in recruiting people for trafficking purposes in the context of the criminal specialization of organized crime groups and their relationships with international networks for trafficking in children and women. Since 2008, CSD’s annual National Crime Survey also monitors the commercial sex market in the country.

 

	Children speak out - Trafficking Risk and Resilience in Southeast Europe
	Organized Crime in Bulgaria: Markets and Trends
	Smuggling in Southeast Europe. The Yugoslav Wars and the Development of Regional Criminal Networks in the Balkans.  - Trafficking Of Human Beings
	Gounev, P., Bezlov, T., and Petrunov, G., (2009) ‘Market regulation and criminal structures in the Bulgarian commercial sex market’ in van Duyne, P., Donati, S., Harvey, J., Maljevic, A. and von Lampe, K. (eds.) Crime, money and criminal mobility in Europe, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2009