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: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 524 |
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: 1980 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105045366262 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Illegal Narcotics Profits by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
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: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1901 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9210041747 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789210041744 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis World Drug Report 2019 by : United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
The 2019 World Drug Report will include an updated overview of recent trends on production, trafficking and consumption of key illicit drugs. The Report contains a global overview of the baseline data and estimates on drug demand and supply and provides the reference point for information on the drug situation worldwide.
Author |
: National Research Council |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 124 |
Release |
: 2010-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309159340 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309159342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding the Demand for Illegal Drugs by : National Research Council
Despite efforts to reduce drug consumption in the United States over the past 35 years, drugs are just as cheap and available as they have ever been. Cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines continue to cause great harm in the country, particularly in minority communities in the major cities. Marijuana use remains a part of adolescent development for about half of the country's young people, although there is controversy about the extent of its harm. Given the persistence of drug demand in the face of lengthy and expensive efforts to control the markets, the National Institute of Justice asked the National Research Council to undertake a study of current research on the demand for drugs in order to help better focus national efforts to reduce that demand. This study complements the 2003 book, Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs by giving more attention to the sources of demand and assessing the potential of demand-side interventions to make a substantial difference to the nation's drug problems. Understanding the Demand for Illegal Drugs therefore focuses tightly on demand models in the field of economics and evaluates the data needs for advancing this relatively undeveloped area of investigation.
Author |
: Thomas Pietschmann |
Publisher |
: UN |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9211303117 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789211303117 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Estimating Illicit Financial Flows Resulting from Drug Trafficking and Other Transnational Organized Crimes by : Thomas Pietschmann
"Attempts to shed light on the total amounts likely to be laundered across the globe, as well as the potential attractiveness of various locations to those who launder money"--Pref.
Author |
: Julie Marie Bunck |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 445 |
Release |
: 2015-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271059457 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271059451 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation by : Julie Marie Bunck
Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation is the first book to examine drug trafficking through Central America and the efforts of foreign and domestic law enforcement officials to counter it. Drawing on interviews, legal cases, and an array of Central American sources, Julie Bunck and Michael Fowler track the changing routes, methods, and networks involved, while comparing the evolution and consequences of the drug trade through Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama over a span of more than three decades. Bunck and Fowler argue that while certain similar factors have been present in each of the Central American states, the distinctions among these countries have been equally important in determining the speed with which extensive drug trafficking has taken hold, the manner in which it has evolved, the amounts of different drugs that have been transshipped, and the effectiveness of antidrug efforts.
Author |
: Tom Wainwright |
Publisher |
: PublicAffairs |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2016-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610395847 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610395840 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narconomics by : Tom Wainwright
Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola. And what can government learn to combat this scourge? By analyzing the cartels as companies, law enforcers might better understand how they work -- and stop throwing away 100 billion a year in a futile effort to win the "war" against this global, highly organized business. Your intrepid guide to the most exotic and brutal industry on earth is Tom Wainwright. Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. The cast of characters includes "Bin Laden," the Bolivian coca guide; Old Lin," the Salvadoran gang leader; "Starboy," the millionaire New Zealand pill maker; and a cozy Mexican grandmother who cooks blueberry pancakes while plotting murder. Along with presidents, cops, and teenage hitmen, they explain such matters as the business purpose for head-to-toe tattoos, how gangs decide whether to compete or collude, and why cartels care a surprising amount about corporate social responsibility. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them.
Author |
: Cláudia Costa Storti |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262016551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262016559 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Illicit Trade and the Global Economy by : Cláudia Costa Storti
Economists explore the relationship between expanding international trade and the parallel growth in illicit trade, including illegal drugs, smuggling, and organized crime. As international trade has expanded dramatically in the postwar period--an expansion accelerated by the opening of China, Russia, India, and Eastern Europe--illicit international trade has grown in tandem with it. This volume uses the economist's toolkit to examine the economic, political, and social problems resulting from such illicit activities as illegal drug trade, smuggling, and organized crime. The contributors consider several aspects of the illegal drug market, including the sometimes puzzling relationships among purity, price, and risk; the effect of globalization on the heroin and cocaine markets, examined both through mathematical models and with empirical data from the U.K; the spread of khat, a psychoactive drug imported legally to the U.K. as a vegetable; and the economic effect of the "war on drugs" on producer and consumer countries. Other chapters examine the hidden financial flows of organized crime, patterns of smuggling in international trade, Iran's illicit trading activity, and the impact of mafia-like crime on foreign direct investment in Italy.
Author |
: Gary Webb |
Publisher |
: Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages |
: 817 |
Release |
: 2011-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609802028 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609802020 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dark Alliance by : Gary Webb
Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.
Author |
: Moises Naim |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2006-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307278562 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307278565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Illicit 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 laundered money to counterfeit goods, the black market produces enormous profits that are reinvested to create new businesses, enable terrorists, and even to take over governments. Naím reveals the inner workings of these amazingly efficient international organizations and shows why it is so hard — and so necessary to contain them. Riveting and deeply informed, Illicit will change how you see the world around you.
Author |
: Kathryn Meyer |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2002-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461705871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461705878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Webs of Smoke by : Kathryn Meyer
This fascinating history of international drug trafficking in the first half of the twentieth century follows the stories of American narcs and gangsters, Japanese spies, Chinese warlords, and soldiers of fortune whose lives revolved around opium. The drug trade centered on China, which was before 1949, the world's largest narcotic market. The authors tell the interlocking stories of the many extraordinary personalities_sinister and otherwise_involved in narcotics trafficking in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Drawing on a rich store of U.S., British, European, Japanese, and Chinese archives, this unique study will be invaluable for all readers interested in the drug trade and contemporary East Asian history.