Human trafficking was criminalised in Spain in 2010. Since then, limited work has been done on the quantification and identification of this phenomenon. Those that do exist, moreover, are based on incomplete data, and consist only of cases formally identified by the police, which have a very clear bias towards trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. In an effort to increase empirical knowledge, this paper presents the results of a quantitative study of all the judgments (N = 221) delivered by Spanish Provincial Courts in human trafficking cases between 2011 and 2019 available in the Spanish Judicial Documentation Centre's (CENDOJ) public case-law database. The aim of the research was to determine how many cases of human trafficking had been tried in court and the types of trafficking involved in order to compare that information with the data reported in prevalence studies. The results confirm what previous research has shown. In this sense, the relationship between the nationalities of defendants and victims is confirmed. Also, the fact that the Spanish criminal justice system is too focused on trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation, whose victims represent 85% of known cases. The victims detected, in contrast to what is indicated by UNODC (2020), are mostly foreign women. This work therefore highlights the need to address the prosecution of human trafficking in a more holistic way, in which cases of trafficking for labour exploitation or cases involving Spanish victims would not be hidden.

2010 年，西班牙将人口贩运定为刑事犯罪。从那时起，在量化和识别这一现象方面所做的工作有限。此外，那些确实存在的案件是基于不完整的数据，并且仅包括警方正式确定的案件，这些案件对以性剥削为目的的贩运有非常明显的偏见。为了增加实证知识，本文介绍了西班牙省法院在 2011 年至 2019 年期间对人口贩运案件作出的所有判决（N = 221）的定量研究结果，这些判决可在西班牙司法文献中心 (CENDOJ) 的公众中获得判例法数据库。该研究的目的是确定在法庭上审理了多少人口贩运案件以及所涉及的贩运类型，以便将该信息与流行率研究中报告的数据进行比较。结果证实了之前的研究表明。从这个意义上说，被告与被害人的国籍关系得到了确认。此外，西班牙刑事司法系统过于关注以性剥削为目的的人口贩运，其受害者占已知案件的 85%。与毒品和犯罪问题办公室（2020 年）所指出的情况相反，发现的受害者大多是外国妇女。因此，这项工作强调需要以更全面的方式处理对人口贩运的起诉，