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1 online resource (594 p.) |
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Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The New Eldorado: Organized Crime, Informal Mining, and the Global Scarcity of Metals and Minerals -- Introduction -- Global Concern with Illicit Trafficking in Precious Metals and Minerals as Organized Crime Activity -- Diversification of Organized Crime into Illegal Mining and Trafficking in Metals and Minerals -- Illegal Extractivism by Non-state Armed Groups -- Illegal vs. Informal Mining |
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Corruption and Corporate Crime in the Mining Industry -- The Environmental and Social Harms of Illegal Mining -- This Book's Contribution to Scholarship -- Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 Why Organized Crime Seeks New Criminal Markets -- Introduction -- What Organized Crime Does -- How Criminal Markets Are Chosen -- How Organized Crime Groups Select Individual Criminal Markets -- Why (Not) Illicitly Extracted and Traded Metals and Minerals? -- Future Directions -- References |
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3 The Queer Ladder of Social Mobility: Illegal Enterprise in the Anthracite Mining Region of Pennsylvania in the Interwar Decades (1917-1945) -- Introduction: Deindustrialization, Depression, and Illegal Enterprise -- Illegal Enterprise and the Restructuring of the Anthracite Industry -- The Bootleg Alcohol Trade -- Workingman's Playground: Sex Tourism, Gambling, and Municipal Corruption in Scranton -- Conclusion: Industrial Succession and the Legacy of Anthracite Mining -- References -- Part II Organized Crime in the Mining Sector |
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4 Links Between Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and Organized Crime in Latin America and Africa -- Introduction -- The Role of Criminality in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector -- Informal Versus Illegal Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining -- Aggravating the Negative Impact of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining -- Latin America -- Africa -- Trafficking in Persons for Labor Exploitation in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining -- The Demand for Labor in ASGM Creates Vulnerability on a Global Scale -- Latin America -- Africa |
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Trafficking in Persons for Sexual Exploitation in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining -- Latin America -- Africa -- Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and Migrant Smuggling -- Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining, Drug Trafficking, and Money Laundering -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 The Diversification of Organized Crime into Gold Mining: Domination, Crime Convergence, and Ecocide in Darién, Colombia -- Introduction -- The Colonial History of Darién and the Search for Gold -- From (Neo)Colonial Interventions to Organized Crime Involvement -- The Diversification of Organized Crime |
| Summary |
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-related 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 the Amazon rainforest through the Ukrainian flatlands to the desert-like savanna of Central African Republic and Australias elevated plateaus, this book offers a unique insight into the illegal mining business and the complex relationship between organized crime, corruption, and ecocide. This is the first book-length publication on illegal extraction, trafficking in mined commodities, and ecocide associated with mining. It will appeal to scholars working on organized crime and green crime, including criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and legal scholars. Practitioners and the general public may welcome this comprehensive and timely publication to contemplate on resource-scarcity, security, and crime in a rapidly changing world |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Convergence and Transformation: Cocaine or Gold? |
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Critical criminology.
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Environmental policy.
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Organized crime.
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Public safety.
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Engineering geology.
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Foundations.
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Hydraulics.
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Civil law.
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environmental policy.
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foundations (structural elements)
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hydraulics.
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Civil law
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Critical criminology
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Engineering geology
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Environmental policy
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Foundations
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Hydraulics
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Organized crime
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Public safety
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| Author |
van Uhm, Daan
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| ISBN |
9783030463274 |
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3030463273 |
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