The article examines the features of criminal activity involving the use of slave labor, which is one of the criminal markets of the shadow economy, which has the following features: selfish nature, organization, transnationality, latency, corruption, close interaction and interdependence with other criminal markets (sex services, illegal migration, illegal transplantology, etc.). Based on the analysis, a definition of the criminal market for the use of slave labor has been formulated, which is understood as a socially dangerous phenomenon, part of the shadow economy that generates supply and demand in the labor market, and carried out through organized criminal activity, acquiring a transnational character, with the goal of extracting criminal proceeds in especially large in size, characterized by latency, corruption potential, interaction with illegal migration, the sex industry, illegal transplantology and terrorist organizations.

criminal markets, the use of slave labor, begging, human trafficking, prostitution, the sex industry, the right to freedom and security of person

Balugyan Anagid Semyonovna – Lecture, Rostov Institute (branch) All-Russian State University of Justice (RPA of the Ministry of Justice of Russia) (32, Sovetskaya st., Rostov-on-Don, 344000, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0009-0004-9543-7877, e-mail: abalugyan@internet.ru

Balugyan A. S. Rabotorgovlya kak raznovidnost' kriminal'nogo rynka tovarov i uslug v sovremennom mire [Slave trade as a variety of criminal market for goods and services in the modern world] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2025, no 1(108), pp. 89–95. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2025.1.89 (in Russian)

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