Transnational criminology: trafficking and global criminal markets

This pioneering study looks across key trafficking crimes to develop a social theory of transnational criminal markets. These include human trafficking, drug dealing, and black markets in wildlife, diamonds, guns and antiquities, the author offers an in-depth analysis of structural similarities and...

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Main Author: Mackenzie, Simon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol Bristol University Press 2020
Series:New horizons in criminology
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Online Access:DE-12
DE-473
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Summary:This pioneering study looks across key trafficking crimes to develop a social theory of transnational criminal markets. These include human trafficking, drug dealing, and black markets in wildlife, diamonds, guns and antiquities, the author offers an in-depth analysis of structural similarities and differences within illicit trade networks, and explores the economic underpinnings which drive global trafficking. Revealing how traffickers think of their illegal enterprises as 'just business', he draws broader lessons for the ways forward in understanding criminality in this emerging field
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2021)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 173 Seiten)
ISBN:9781529203851
DOI:10.46692/9781529203851