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  • Transnational Organized Crime

    by Frank Madsen ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    With organized crime estimated to generate billions of dollars every year through illegal activities such as money laundering, smuggling of people and goods, extortion, robbery, fraud and insider trading, authorities are increasingly working together to combat this increasing threat to international security and stability.In this book former police officer Frank Madsen provides a much needed, ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • Illicit

    How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy

    by Moises Naim ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • American Exception

    Empire and the Deep State

    by Aaron Good ...
    American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy. In particular, how we can understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich. To trace the evolution of the American state, the author takes a deep politics approach, shedding light on those ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Money Laundering in Canada

    Chasing Dirty and Dangerous Dollars

    by Margaret E. Beare ...
    Money laundering is the process of converting or transferring cash or other assets, generated from illegal activity, in order to conceal or disguise their origins. In recent years, the international community has decided that focusing on money laundering is an efficient strategy in policing organized crime and, now terrorism. To this end, countries are encouraged to harmonize their policies and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Sex Trafficking

    A Global Perspective

    by Karin Bruckmüller, Brad Bullock, Michael A. Bush, Mirna Carranza, Yingyu Chen, Brian E. Crim, James B. Grassano, Sunita Manian, William J. Mathias, Margaret Melrose, Nhatthien Q. Nguyen, Henry Parada, David H. Richards, Stefan Schumann, Arvind Verma, T.A Ryan ...
    Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex trafficking may be forced into pornography, prostitution for the military or militia, spousal prostitution, and prostitution ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Corruption

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leslie Holmes ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in the contemporary world cannot be undervalued. In this Very Short Introduction Leslie Holmes considers why the international community has only ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law

    by Neil Boister ...
    National borders are permeable to all types of illicit action and contraband goods, whether it is trafficking humans, body parts, digital information, drugs, weapons, or money. Whilst criminals exist in a borderless world where territorial boundaries allow them to manipulate different markets in illicit goods, the authorities who pursue them can remain constrained inside their own jurisdictions. ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan

    by John Hagan ...
    How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences, a practice that has led to the disaster of mass incarceration, while white ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts

    The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict

    Edited by Peter Andreas, Kelly M. Greenhill ...
    At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia. "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." "Between 600,000 and 800,000 women are trafficked across borders every year." "Money laundering represents as much as 10 percent of global GDP." "Internet child porn is a $20 billion-a-year industry ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Organized Crime

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Georgios A Antonopoulos, Georgios Papanicolaou ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    For many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighbourhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. Policymakers, law enforcement, and the media rarely fail to bring up the issue when discussing the nature and seriousness of contemporary criminal threats, and the appropriate responses towards them. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Convergence: Illicit Networks and National Security in the Age of Globalization

    by Jacqueline Brewer, Michael Miklaucic, James G. Stavridis ...
    The Center for Complex Operations (CCO) has produced this edited volume, Convergence: Illicit Networks and National Security in the Age of Globalization, that delves deeply into everything mentioned above and more. In a time when the threat is growing, this is a timely effort. CCO has gathered an impressive cadre of authors to illuminate the important aspects of transnational crime and other ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • Who Are the Criminals?

    The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan

    by John Hagan ...
    How Americans came to fear street crime too much—and corporate crime too littleHow did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences, a ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD