Illicit Trafficking: A Reference Handbook (contemporary World Issues) [Hardcover]

A detailed survey of a growing scourge of the global economythe smuggling of people, materials, and money.

Smuggling used to be a family business. Today it is big business.Illicit Trafficking: A Reference Handbookoffers a thorough introduction to the problems of illegal trafficking that have emerged from and been intensified by globalization. This title provides an examination of how criminal enterprises have exploited opportunities to enrich themselves and broadened their involvement in many areas of illegal trafficking while compromising or evading legal authorities.

The coverage includes a brief history of illicit trafficking, analyzes current problems, and examines local and global containment policies such as Presidential Decision Directive 42. It also explores key international agreements on money laundering, bank secrecy laws, extradition treaties, and technologies that have exploited legitimate business opportunities to enrich their profits while compromising or evading legal authorities.

Robert J. Kelly, PhD, is professor emeritus in the Department of Criminal Justice and the Department of Sociology at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, New York, NY.

Jess Maghan, PhD, is professor and director at the Forum for Comparative Correction, Chester, CT.

Joseph D. Seriois editor-in-chief ofCrime and Justice International, a bimonthly magazine published by the Office of International Criminal Justice. He is currently a third-year doctoral student in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX.