UPC: 9783030463267 | Illegal Mining: Organized Crime Corruption and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World (Hardcover)

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illegal extraction of metals and minerals from the perspectives of organized crime theory green criminology anti-corruption studies and victimology. It includes contributions that focus on organized crime-related offences such as drug trafficking and trafficking in persons extortion corruption and money laundering and sheds light on the serious environmental harms caused by illegal mining. Based on a wide range of case studies from the Amazon rainforest through the Ukrainian flatlands to the desert-like savanna of Central African Republic and Australia s elevated plateaus this book offers a unique insight into the illegal mining business and the complex relationship between organized crime corruption and ecocide. This is the first book-length publication on illegal extraction trafficking in mined commodities and ecocide associated with mining. It will appeal to scholars working on organized crime and green crime including criminologists sociologists anthropologists and legal scholars. Practitioners and the general public may welcome this comprehensive and timely publication to contemplate on resource-scarcity security and crime in a rapidly changing world.