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  • The Chinese Heroin Trade

    Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Beyond

    by Ko-lin Chin, Sheldon X. Zhang ...
    In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking

    Violence, Victimization and Community Action in Mexico’s Criminal Landscape

    Edited by Gabriella Sanchez, Sheldon X. Zhang ...
    Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque, simplistic characterizations of Mexico’s people, cities and towns as crime-ridden and almost inherently violent. These representations, however, often lack evidence and forgo important contextual analyses, not to ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of International Criminology

    Edited by Cindy J. Smith, Sheldon X. Zhang, Rosemary Barberet ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of International Criminology brings together the latest thinking and findings from a diverse group of both senior and promising young scholars from around the globe. This collaborative project articulates a new way of thinking about criminology that extends existing perspectives in understanding crime and social control across borders, jurisdictions, and cultures, and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Mexican Drug Violence

    Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty

    by Teun Voeten ...
    “Brutally honest… a deeply extraordinary and original work.”- SEBASTIAN JUNGER.With an estimated 250,000 people killed in 15 years, the Mexican drug war is the most violent conflict in the Western world. It shows no sign of abating. In this book, Dr Teun A. Voeten analyzes the dynamics of the violence. He argues it is a new type of war called hybrid warfare: multidimensional, elusive and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Violent Democracies in Latin America

    by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Anti-Black City

    Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

    by Jaime Amparo Alves ...
    An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive state policies often breaking racial lines. In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Amparo Alves delves into the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Politics of Drug Violence

    Criminals, Cops and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico

    by Angelica Duran-Martinez ...
    Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities

    Edited by Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt ...
    Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world? Over the past decades Latin America has not only become the most urbanised of the regions of the so-called global South, it has also been the scene of the urbanisation of poverty and exclusion. Overall regional homicides rates are the highest in the world, a fact closely related to the spread and use of firearms by male youths, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico

    The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto

    by Jonathan D. Rosen, Roberto Zepeda ...
    Series series Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
    Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto examines the major trends in organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico. The book provides an exhaustive analysis of drug-related violence in the country. This work highlights the transition from the Felipe Calderón administration to the Enrique Peña Nieto government, focusing ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Mexico's Unrule of Law

    Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization

    by Niels Uildriks ...
    Mexico's crisis of security is unrelenting. Why is it so hard to establish the rule of law, and why does the country's justice system continue to struggle to deliver both security and adherence to democratic values and human rights? To answer these questions, Mexico Unrule of Law: Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization looks at recent Mexican criminal justice ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Eating Soup without a Spoon

    Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World

    by Jeffrey H. Cohen ...
    Significant scholarship exists on anthropological fieldwork and methodologies. Some anthropologists have also published memoirs of their research experiences. Renowned anthropologist Jeffrey Cohen’s Eating Soup without a Spoon is a first-of-its-kind hybrid of the two, expertly melding story with methodology to create a compelling narrative of fieldwork that is deeply grounded in anthropological ... Read more

    $26.59 USD