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  • The World Heroin Market

    Can Supply Be Cut?

    by Letizia Paoli, Victoria A. Greenfield, Peter Reuter ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use. Burgeoning illegal mass consumption in the 1960s and 1970s has given rise to a global market for heroin and other opiates of nearly 16 million users. The production and trafficking of opiates have caused crime, ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Crime and Justice, Volume 49: Organizing Crime

    Mafias, Markets, and Networks

    Edited by Michael Tonry, Peter Reuter ...
    Series series Crime and Justice: A Review of Research
    For most Americans, The Godfather, The Sopranos, and the Cosa Nostra exemplify organized crime. In Asia the term conjures up images of Japanese yakuza and Chinese triads, in Italy the Cosa Nostra and ‘Ndrangheta, in Latin America Mexican narco-gangs and Colombian drug cartels, in the Netherlands transnational drug and human trafficking, and in Scandinavia outlaw motorcycle gangs. Some but not all ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Drug Policy and the Public Good

    by Thomas Babor, Jonathan Caulkins, Benedikt Fischer, David Foxcroft, Keith Humphreys, Isidore Obot, Peter Reuter, Robin Room, Ingeborg Rossow, John Strang, María Elena Medina-Mora, Jürgen Rehm ...
    Illegal psychoactive substances and illicit prescription drugs are currently used on a daily basis all over the world. Affecting public health and social welfare, illicit drug use is linked to disease, disability, and social problems. Faced with an increase in usage, national and global policymakers are turning to addiction science for guidance on how to create evidence-based drug policy. Drug ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Draining development?: Controlling flows of illicit funds from developing countries

    by Peter Reuter ...
    A growing concern among those interested in economic development is the realization that hundreds of billions of dollars are illicitly flowing out of developing countries to tax havens and other financial centers in the developed world. This volume assesses the dynamics of these flows, much of which is from corruption and tax evasion. What causes them, what are their consequences and how might ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Edited by Marilyn Herie, PhD, RSW, W.J. Wayne Skinner, MSW, RSW ...
    Fundamentals of Addiction is an essential reference for counsellors and a comprehensive textbook for college and university level students in courses that address addictions. Written by more than 50 experts in addiction treatment and related fields, each chapter includes case examples, practice tips and print and online resources.This fourth edition of Alcohol & Drug Problems was renamed ... Read more

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  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

    Management and Policy Perspectives of FASD

    Edited by Edward P. Riley, Sterling Clarren, Joanne Weinberg, Egon Jonsson ...
    Series series Health Care and Disease Management
    Reflecting the recent increased public awareness of the topic, this is the first and most comprehensive resource for over a decade on the molecular basis, prevalence, treatment options, socioeconomic impact and prevention strategies of FADS. Edited by world-renowned experts, this compendium includes the latest research results to provide new insights and realistic estimations of FADS frequencies ... Read more

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  • Illicit

    How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy

    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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Mental Disorder in Canada

    An Epidemiological Perspective

    by John Cairney, David L. Streiner ...
    Canada has long been recognized as a leader in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, the study of the factors affecting mental health in populations. However, there has never been a book dedicated to the study of mental disorder at a population level in Canada. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the discipline uses data from the country's first national survey of mental disorder, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Disaster Capitalism

    Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

    by Antony Loewenstein ...
    A “keenly observed and timely investigation” of how capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe—“a potent weapon for shock resistors around the world” (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine)Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Increasing Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health

    by Charlotte Allenou, Charles Baily, Cornelio Banaag, Philippe Birmes, Rossana Bisceglia, Rodrigo Chazan, C Cheung, Vanessa Loi-Yan Chu, Eric Fombonne, Tamsin Ford, Jean-Yves Hayez, Franck Hazane, Schuyler Henderson, Jennifer Jenkins, Kazu Kobayashi, Bertrand Olliac, Maryland Pao, Guilherme Polanczyk, Robertas Povilaitis, Dainius Puras, Lisa Reisinger, Luis Rohde, Kapil Sayal, Sadaaki Shirataki, Rebecca Simon, Mandy Steiman, Emily Swinkin, Stevan Weine, Virginia Chun-Nei Wong, Yi Zheng ...
    In this volume, Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to contribute to advancing awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an international framework that gives special consideration to problems arising in different contexts around the world and through expert views supported by empirical evidence and considering clinical implications.There is increasing recognition worldwide ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The Shadow Market

    How a Group of Wealthy Nations and Powerful Investors Secretly Dominate the World

    by Eric J. Weiner ...
    Acclaimed financial journalist Eric J. Weiner reveals how foreign countries and private investors are increasingly controlling the global economy and secretly wresting power from the United States in ways that our government cannot reverse and about which the average American knows nothing.The most potent force in global commerce today is not the Federal Reserve, not the international banks, not ... Read more

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  • More Harm Than Good

    Drug Policy in Canada

    by Susan C. Boyd, Connie I. Carter, Donald MacPherson ...
    In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm Than Good is shaped by critical sociology and feminist perspectives on drugs and incorporates insights ... Read more

    $31.99 USD