Illicit Trafficking: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)

by Robert Kelly (Author), Jesse Maghan (Author), Joseph Serio (Author)

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Hardcover
2005
$89.08

A detailed survey of a growing scourge of the global economy-the smuggling of people, materials, and money.

* Entries include transnational organized criminal groups involved in illicit trafficking activities, including profiles of prominent figures engaged in money laundering, drug smuggling, and arms trafficking
* Annotated chronology of key events concerning international agreements on fighting illegal trafficking

Synopsis

A detailed survey of a growing scourge of the global economy-the smuggling of people, materials, and money.

* Entries include transnational organized criminal groups involved in illicit trafficking activities, including profiles of prominent figures engaged in money laundering, drug smuggling, and arms trafficking

* Annotated chronology of key events concerning international agreements on fighting illegal trafficking

$89.08

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 278
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 30 Jun 2005
ISBN 10: 1576079155
ISBN 13: 9781576079157
Book Overview: Nuclear materials, sex slaves, intellectual property, human organs, children, and practically everything else. Welcome to the fastest growing business in the new millennium-smuggling. Despite its vast global scope and increasingly sophisticated methods of concealment and delivery, illicit trafficking is an enterprise as old as history itself.

Media Reviews

The book [is] appropriate for academic libraries, general public libraries, government libraries, and libraries that serve a variety of nonprofit organizations and causes. - American Reference Books Annual

Author Bio

Robert J. Kelly, PhD, is professor emeritus in the Department of Criminal Justice and the Department of Sociology at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, New York, NY.

Jess Maghan, PhD, is professor and director at the Forum for Comparative Correction, Chester, CT.

Joseph D. Serio is editor-in-chief of Crime and Justice International, a bimonthly magazine published by the Office of International Criminal Justice. He is currently a third-year doctoral student in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX.