Criminal Exploitation
| Forced gang-related crime | - Survivors are forced to commit crimes for a gang. - Common example = county lines. - Survivors are often children. - Exploiter/s may include the partner’s family member/s. - May include forced marriage. - May include domestic abuse and sexual exploitation. |
| Forced labour in criminal activities | - Survivors are forced to work as part of an illegal activity. - Common example = cannabis cultivation. - Survivors live with exploiter/s. - Exploiter/s are often extended family member/s. - Survivors are often children. - Can include forced sex work. - Survivors may be moved around and exploited in various locations. - This is either in the exploiter’s business or businesses that the exploiter/s controls |
| Forced acquisitive crime | - Exploiter/s may house and feed survivors, but it is unlikely that survivors will be paid. - Common examples = shoplifting and pickpocketing. |
| Forced begging | - Exploiter/s transport survivors to places where they are forced to beg for money. - The money received by the survivor is taken by the exploiter/s. - Survivors are often children or vulnerable adults. |
| Forced marriage | - Survivors are often EU or non-UK nationals. - Survivors will be sold by traffickers to exploiters. - May include sexual abuse. - Exploiter/s may force survivors to marry them for immigration advantages. |
| Financial fraud | - Common example = benefit fraud. - Exploiter/s often remove and hold survivor’s identity documents. - Often happens in addition to other types of modern slavery. |