Transnational Criminology: Trafficking and Global Criminal Markets

Product Description
This pioneering study looks across key trafficking crimes to develop a social theory of transnational criminal markets. These include human trafficking, drug dealing, and black markets in wildlife, diamonds, guns and antiquities, The author offers an in-depth analysis of structural similarities and differences within illicit trade networks, and explores the economic underpinnings which drive global trafficking. Revealing how traffickers think of their illegal enterprises as ‘just business’, he draws broader lessons for the ways forward in understanding criminality in this emerging field.
Review
"After reading this thoroughly researched book, one finds it hard to claim that developed countries are victimized by criminality originating in developing ones. The networks of interdependency involving both suggest otherwise." Vincenzo Ruggiero, Middlesex University, London
About the Author
Simon Mackenzie is Professor of Criminology and Head of the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.