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Illicit

Author : Moises Naim
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307278565
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Illicit written by Moises Naim and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments.In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naím illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the hamstrung bureaucracies trying to control them. From illegal migrants to drugs to weapons to laundered money to counterfeit goods, the black market produces enormous profits that are reinvested to create new businesses, enable terrorists, and even to take over governments. Naím reveals the inner workings of these amazingly efficient international organizations and shows why it is so hard — and so necessary to contain them. Riveting and deeply informed, Illicit will change how you see the world around you.

Illicit Flows and Criminal Things

Author : Willem van Schendel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253111579
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Illicit Flows and Criminal Things written by Willem van Schendel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illicit Flows and Criminal Things offers a new perspective on illegal transnational linkages, international relations, and the transnational. The contributors argue for a nuanced approach that recognizes the difference between "organized" crime and the thousands of illicit acts that take place across national borders every day. They distinguish between the illegal (prohibited by law) and the illicit (socially perceived as unacceptable), which are historically changeable and contested. Detailed case studies of arms smuggling, illegal transnational migration, the global diamond trade, borderland practices, and the transnational consumption of drugs take us to Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and North America. They allow us to understand how states, borders, and the language of law enforcement produce criminality, and how people and goods which are labeled "illegal" move across regulatory spaces.

Illicit Flirtations

Author : Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804778167
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Illicit Flirtations written by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “excellent” ethnography that “reveal[s] the global implications of the US morality on international policies and migrant workers” (Cristina Firpo, International Review of Modern Sociology). In 2004, the US State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent. To some, this might suggest a victory for the global anti-trafficking campaign, but Rhacel Parreñas counters that this drastic decline—which stripped thousands of migrants of their livelihoods—is a setback. Parreñas worked alongside hostesses in a working-class club in Tokyo’s red-light district, serving drinks and entertaining her customers. While the common assumption has been that these hostess bars are hotbeds of sexual trafficking, Parreñas quickly discovered a different world of working migrant women, there by choice, and, most importantly, where none were coerced into prostitution. Illicit Flirtations calls into question the US policy to broadly label these women as sex trafficked. It highlights how in imposing top-down legal constraints to solve the perceived problems—including laws that push dependence on migrant brokers and measures that criminalize undocumented migrants—many women become more vulnerable to exploitation, not less. This book gives a long overdue look into the real world of those labeled as trafficked. “A highly readable and informative book.” —Ko-lin Chin, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books “A nuanced portrayal. . . . Scholars and policy-makers should take note.” —Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University, author of Purchase of Intimacy and Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy “An extraordinary book.” —Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of A Sociology of Globalization

Smuggler Nation

Author : Peter Andreas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199301611
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Smuggler Nation written by Peter Andreas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian cocaine in the modern era. Contraband capitalism, it turns out, has been an integral part of American capitalism. Providing a sweeping narrative history from colonial times to the present, Smuggler Nation is the first book to retell the story of America--and of its engagement with its neighbors and the rest of the world--as a series of highly contentious battles over clandestine commerce. As Peter Andreas demonstrates in this provocative and fascinating account, smuggling has played a pivotal and too often overlooked role in America's birth, westward expansion, and economic development, while anti-smuggling campaigns have dramatically enhanced the federal government's policing powers. The great irony, Andreas tells us, is that a country that was born and grew up through smuggling is today the world's leading anti-smuggling crusader. In tracing America's long and often tortuous relationship with the murky underworld of smuggling, Andreas provides a much-needed antidote to today's hyperbolic depictions of out-of-control borders and growing global crime threats. Urgent calls by politicians and pundits to regain control of the nation's borders suffer from a severe case of historical amnesia, nostalgically implying that they were ever actually under control. This is pure mythology, says Andreas. For better and for worse, America's borders have always been highly porous. Far from being a new and unprecedented danger to America, the illicit underside of globalization is actually an old American tradition. As Andreas shows, it goes back not just decades but centuries. And its impact has been decidedly double-edged, not only subverting U.S. laws but also helping to fuel America's evolution from a remote British colony to the world's pre-eminent superpower.

The Illicit Global Economy and State Power

Author : H. Richard Friman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847693047
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Illicit Global Economy and State Power written by H. Richard Friman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illicit cross-border flows, such as the smuggling of drugs, are proliferating on a global scale. This volume explores the selective nature of the state's retreat, persistence and reassertion in relation to the illicit global economy.

Dark Commerce

Author : Louise I. Shelley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691209766
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Dark Commerce written by Louise I. Shelley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce shows, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. In this new world of illicit commerce, which benefits states and diverse participants, trade is impersonal and anonymized, and vast profits are made in short periods with limited accountability to sellers, intermediaries, and purchasers. Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and globalization fuel the exponential growth of dangerous forms of illegal trade--the markets for narcotics and child pornography online, the escalation of sex trafficking through web advertisements, and the sale of endangered species for which revenues total in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The illicit economy exacerbates many of the world's destabilizing phenomena: the perpetuation of conflicts, the proliferation of arms and weapons of mass destruction, and environmental degradation and extinction. Shelley explores illicit trade in tangible goods--drugs, human beings, arms, wildlife and timber, fish, antiquities, and ubiquitous counterfeits--and contrasts this with the damaging trade in cyberspace, where intangible commodities cost consumers and organizations billions as they lose identities, bank accounts, access to computer data, and intellectual property.

Illicit and Illegal

Author : Joanna Phoenix
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134015755
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Illicit and Illegal written by Joanna Phoenix and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon sociological understandings of sex and wider theories of deviance and social control, this book investigates the different sites of regulation for sexual activities across diverse contexts and challenges the idea that early 21st-century Britain is increasingly sexually liberated.

Illicit Trade

Author : OECD
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
ISBN 13 : 9789264251830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Illicit Trade written by OECD and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report assesses the magnitude, flows and drivers of illicit trade and the illegal economy including: narcotics, human trafficking, wildlife, sports betting, counterfeit medicines, alcohol and tobacco. The negative socio-economic impacts that these markets have in consumer countries are as worrisome as the goverance gaps that are exploited in source countries. This report examines each illicit sector in terms of the geographic sources, destinations and key trade routes, the current trend of infiltration by organized crime networks, and good practices or future policy solutions with which to combat illicit trade within the various sectors.

Illicit

Author : June Gray
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532890000
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Illicit written by June Gray and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never meant to be the other woman... Jake and I felt a connection the moment he walked into my life, an attraction both of us tried so hard to deny. Still, I found myself longing for the very thing I couldn't have. I didn't set out to fall in love with Jake. Not when he clearly wasn't mine. He was my mother's.

Estimating Illicit Financial Flows

Author : Alex Cobham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198854412
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Estimating Illicit Financial Flows written by Alex Cobham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illicit financial flows constitute a global phenomenon of massive but uncertain scale, which erodes government revenues and drives corruption in countries rich and poor. This book offers a critical examination of existing data and methodologies, identifying the most promising avenues for future improvement.

The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development

Author : Francesco Chiodelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315317648
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development written by Francesco Chiodelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science. However, these debates have impinged little on cognate literatures, not least those of urban and regional studies which remain almost entirely undisturbed by such issues. This volume aims to open up debates across a range of cognate disciplines. The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development is a multidisciplinary volume that aims to open up these debates, extending them empirically and questioning the dominant discussions of governance and development that have been rooted largely or entirely in the realm of licit and legal actors. The book investigates these issues with reference to a variety of different geographical contexts, including, but not limited to, places traditionally considered to be associated with illegal activities and extensive illicit markets, such as some regions in the so-called Global South. The chapters consider the ways in which these questions deeply affect the daily lives of several cities and regions in some advanced countries. Their comparative perspectives will demonstrate that the illicit and the illegal are an underappreciated structural aspect of current urban and regional governance and development across the globe. The book is an edited collection of research-informed essays, which will primarily be of interest to those taking advanced undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in human geography, urban and regional planning and a range of social science disciplines that have an interest in urban and regional issues and issues related to crime and corruption.

Organized Crime and Illicit Trade

Author : Virginia Comolli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319729683
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime and Illicit Trade written by Virginia Comolli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict regions, amount to strategic challenges for the state. Whereas most commentators would agree that criminal activities are harmful, this volume addresses the questions of ‘how?’, ‘for whom?’ and, controversially, ‘are they always harmful?’ The volume is authored by experts with multi-year experience analysing criminal and other non-state activities. They do so through different lenses - conflict and security, development, and technology - engaging academics, practitioners and policy makers. They offer a comprehensive integrated response to the challenges of transnational organised crime beyond traditional law-enforcement driven recommendations.

Advances in Research on Illicit Networks

Author : Martin Bouchard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317579763
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Research on Illicit Networks written by Martin Bouchard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social network analysis finally reached a critical mass of scholars in the field of criminology. The proven track record of network theory and methods in fostering new advances in our understanding of crimes and criminals has extended the web of researchers willing to integrate this approach to their work. It is more than just a fad – once you adopt a network approach, it almost inevitably becomes the main lens through which you see crime. The insights learned from analysing matrices of relations among offenders, from exploiting the interdependence among actors instead of finding ways to avoid it are simply too great to ignore. This book provides a state of the art assessment into network research currently being conducted in criminology and beyond, pushing the field further in multiple ways. A series of contributions tackle themes and offending types that had yet to be previously empirically investigated, including political conspiracies, steroid distribution, methamphetamine production, illicit marketplaces on the Internet, and small arms trafficking. Advances are also found in the data sources used to extract illicit networks, and the methods used to analyse them. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Crime.

Precursors and Chemicals Frequently Used in the Illicit Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances

Author : Barry Leonard
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788173944
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Precursors and Chemicals Frequently Used in the Illicit Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on the implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988. Presents major cases of diversion and attempted diversion; actions required by governments to prevent diversion; tools for control available to governments; legislative and administrative efforts by governments; status of the 1988 Convention and reporting by governments under article 12; analysis of data on seizures of, and illicit traffic in, precursors and trends in illicit drug manufacturing; and assessment of substances for possible modification in the scope of control.

Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permament Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1930 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permament Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Illicit Antiquities

Author : Neil Brodie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134568231
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Illicit Antiquities written by Neil Brodie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. In peace and during wartime archaeological sites and cultural institutions, both on land and underwater, are attacked and their contents robbed for sale on an international 'antiquities' market. Objects are excavated without record, smuggled across borders and sold for exorbitant prices in the salesrooms of Europe and North America. In some countries this looting has now reached such a scale as to threaten the very survival of their archaeological and cultural heritage. This volume highlights the deleterious effects of the trade on cultural heritage, but in particular it focuses upon questions of legal and local responses: How can people become involved in the preservation of their past and what, in economic terms, are the costs and benefits? Are international conventions or export restrictions effective in diminishing the volume of the trade and the scale of its associated destruction?

Illicit Drugs

Author : Adrian Barton
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415281713
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Illicit Drugs written by Adrian Barton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing information from a wide-range of sources, Adrian Barton illuminates the complex nature and broad impact illicit drug use has, and provides an overview of the contemporary state of the drug 'scene'.