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From prison gangs to transnational mafia: the expansion of organized crime in Brazil
This article uses quantitative and qualitative data to document the alarming expansion of the three largest organized criminal groups (OCGs) in...
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Regulatory theater in the pork industry: how the capitalist state harms workers, farmers, and unions
The United States pork sector generates billions of pounds of food and billions of dollars of sales and tax revenue per year. This industry has also...
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European illegal puppy trade and organised crime
Organised crime groups’ involvement in illicit markets is a common focus of law enforcement and governments. Drug, weapon, human and wildlife...
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Large-scale natural disasters, such as the August 2005 Hurricane Katrina, is a primary example of how the police authorities were not prepared to...
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Dietary supplements, harm associated with synthetic adulterants and potential governance solutions
Intentional adulteration of dietary supplements with undeclared synthetic drugs illegally enhances the supplement’s purported efficacy and is a...
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Human Trafficking in Supply Chains and the Way Forward
Human trafficking in supply chains is a global issue caused by globalization, populous supply chains, and a lack of supply chain transparency that...
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Ghost Brides and Crime Networks in Rural China
The custom of ghost marriages has been passed down since the ancient times in China. Adults who died before marriage could not be buried with their...
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Reflecting on Wildlife Trafficking
The concluding chapter summarises the complicated nature of wildlife trafficking; from its pervasiveness to its hidden nature; from the supply side...
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Eating the [M]Other: Consumption Fantasies in Swedish Adoption Narratives
In this chapter, I take bell hooks’ classic essay “Eating the Other” as a starting point to build an understanding of the ethnic consumption desires...
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COVID-19 and organized crime: an introduction to the special issue
This is an introduction to the articles submitted to the special issue of Trends in Organized Crime on ‘COVID-19 and Organized Crime’. The aim of the...
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The working of electoral corruption: the Ekiti model of vote buying
In Nigeria, politicians and parties have developed a sophisticated vote-buying scheme, which we label, according to the state, where it happens, the...
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Political Economy, Food and Eco-justice
This chapter examines a dimension of eco-justice that has yet to be explored fully within the green criminological literature from a political...
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Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics
This paper examines aspects of the relationship between (1) the recently typified form of biodiversity crime, (2) information made available to the...
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Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom
The illicit market in veterinary medicines is an overlooked issue despite threatening the health of non-human and human animals. It is thought to be...
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Introduction
This chapter provides up-to-date background information regarding the illegal wildlife trade and the green criminological perspective that sets the...
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Criminological reflections on the regulation and governance of labour exploitation
The regulation and governance of labour exploitation is a well-researched area across numerous disciplines. Common approaches towards regulating...
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Financial Crises in Sri Lanka: In Search of Reasons, Sufferings, and Way Forward
The unprecedented financial crisis of the South Asian island country Sri Lanka proved that lacking economic policy framing and implementation,...
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Challenging the Social License
This chapter presents an analysis of six illustrative case studies where the social license to operate has been challenged. The cases are from...
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Significance
Significance—The illegal wildlife trade presents a number of threats to a number of different aspects of societies and communities around the world....
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Legitimized fraud and the state-corporate criminology of food – a Spectrum-based theory
The role that food corporations have in determining our health and nutrition is concomitant with the power and influence that corporations exercise...
