Illicit Trafficking: A Reference Handbook

by Robert J. Kelly, Jesse L. Maghan, Joseph D. Serio

Overview

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

Smuggling used to be a family business. Today it is big business. Illicit Trafficking: A Reference Handbook offers a thorough introduction to the problems of illegal trafficking that have emerged from and been intensified by globalization. This title provides an examination of how criminal enterprises have exploited opportunities to enrich themselves and broadened their involvement in many areas of illegal trafficking while compromising or evading legal authorities.

The coverage includes a brief history of illicit trafficking, analyzes current problems, and examines local and global containment policies such as Presidential Decision Directive 42. It also explores key international agreements on money laundering, bank secrecy laws, extradition treaties, and technologies that have exploited legitimate business opportunities to enrich their profits while compromising or evading legal authorities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781576079157
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/29/2005
Series:	Contemporary World Issues
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	12 - 14 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
1	Illicit Trafficking: A Brief History	1
	What Is Illicit Trafficking?	2
	What Are the Roles of Organized Crime and Transnational Crime in Illicit Trafficking?	4
	Does Immigration Foster Illicit Trafficking?	5
	What Is the Relationship of the Volume of Illicit Trafficking to Globalization?	7
	What Is the Relationship of the Growth of Global Finance to Illicit Trafficking?	7
	How Do Worldwide Communication Technologies Affect Illicit Trafficking?	8
	What Are the Defining Characteristics of Transnational Crime Groups?	8
	What Are the Relationships among Governments, Social Structure, and Organized Crime?	11
	Do Ethnic Conflicts and State Dissolution Facilitate Illicit Trafficking?	13
	Do Political Instability and Military Conflict Contribute to Criminal Activities?	14
	What Are the Trends among Transnational Crime Groups?	15
	Can Law Enforcement Operate Effectively in a Global Environment?	17
	Western Europe	18
	Eastern and Central Europe	20
	Russia, the Balkans, and the Newly Independent States	21
	South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China	23
	Japan	25
	South America and Central America: Colombia and Mexico	26
	United States	27
	How Are Transnational Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking Related?	37
	Summary	38
	How Can States Deter and Contain Illicit Trafficking?	39
2	Problems, Controversies and Solutions	47
	Transnational Crime Survey	47
	Money Laundering: Structure and Characteristics	48
	Types of Money Laundering	53
	Controls and Law Enforcement Responses to Money Laundering	54
	Drug Trafficking	54
	Drug-Trafficking Impacts on Nation-State Stability	56
	Economic and Social Consequences of Illicit Trafficking	56
	Illicit Drug Production	57
	Drug-Trafficking Networks	57
	Drug Market Structure and the Trafficking Industry	58
	Smuggling Nuclear Materials and Arms	62
	Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)	63
	Nuclear Theft and Smuggling: The Threat	64
	The Impact of Change	65
	Biological and Chemical Weapons	66
	Law Enforcement and Control Efforts	69
	Illicit Arms Trafficking	70
	Dynamics of Arms Trafficking: The Cold War	71
	Arms Trafficking in the Post-Cold War Era	73
	Weapons "Supermarkets" and Conflict Zones	73
	The Machinery of Arms Smuggling	75
	The Gray Arms Market	76
	Trafficking in Precious Stones	78
	Trafficking in Human Body Parts	78
	The Illicit Trade in Art and Cultural Objects	82
	Theft of Intellectual Property	83
	Organized Crime and IPR Crimes	84
	Alien Smuggling: Trafficking in Human Beings	84
	Female Migrants	86
	General Observations: Looking Ahead	89
3	Chronology	99
4	Biographical Sketches	109
	Monzar Al Kassar	109
	Osama bin Laden	110
	Victor Bout	112
	Alphonse Capone	114
	Pablo Emilio Gaviria Escobar	117
	Helmer Herrera-Buitrago	121
	Abdul Qadeer Khan	122
	Khun Sa	123
	Carlos Lehder-Rivas	124
	"Little Pete,"	125
	Charles "Lucky" Luciano	127
	Leonid Minin	129
	Manuel Antonio Noriega	130
	Jorge Luis Vasquez Ochoa	133
	Benny Ong	135
	Salvatore Riina	136
	Tijuana Cartel	139
5	Statistics and Reference Documents	141
	Trafficking in Human Beings	141
	Characteristics of Traffickers and Their Victims	142
	International Organization for Migration	146
	Coalition against Trafficking in Women	147
	U.S. Department of State	151
	United Nations	155
	Narcotics Trafficking	158
	Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs	158
	Office of National Drug Control Policy	159
	Characteristics of Traffickers	160
	United Nations	162
	Trafficking in Small Arms and Light Weapons	163
	Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement	164
	United Nations	167
	UN Institute for Disarmament Research	168
	Small Arms Survey	169
	Trafficking in Nuclear Materials	170
	International Atomic Energy Agency	170
	The Center for International Security and Cooperation	172
	Nuclear Threat Initiatives	174
6	Agencies and Organizations	177
7	Print and Nonprint Resources	191
	Print Resources	191
	Books and Articles	191
	Periodicals and Publications	218
	Bibliographies	222
	Nonprint Resources	224
	Videos	224
8	Summary	233
	Illicit Traficking-Trends and Issues	233
	Post-Perestroika and the Rise of the Oligarchs: Examples of State Decay and Illicit Traficking Opportunities	236
	Index	243
	About the Authors	259

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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

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