Illegal Mining: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illegal extraction of metals and minerals from the perspectives of organized crime theory, green criminology, anti—corruption studies, and victimology. It includes contributions that focus on organized crime firelated offences, such as drug trafficking and trafficking in persons, extortion, corruption and money laundering and sheds light on the serious environmental harms caused by illegal mining. Based on a wide range of case studies from ...