Illegal Mining Organized Crime, Corruption, and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World

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 traffickin...

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Zabyelina, Yuliya (-), van Uhm, Daan
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2020.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The New Eldorado: Organized Crime, Informal Mining, and the Global Scarcity of Metals and Minerals, Yuliya Zabyelina and Daan van Uhm
  • 2. Why Organized Crime Seeks New Criminal Marnests, Jay S. Albanese
  • 3. The Queer Ladder of Social Mobility: Illegal Enterprise in the Anthracite Mining Region of Pennsylvania in the Interwar Decades (1917-1945), Robert Schmidt
  • 4. Links Between Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and Organized Crime in Latin America and Africa, Livia Wagner and Marcena Hunter
  • 5. The Diversification of Organized Crime into Gold Mining: Domination, Crime Convergence, and Ecocide in Darién, Colombia, Daan van Uhm
  • 6. Where the Metal Meets the Flesh: Organized Crime, Violence, and the Illicit Iron Ore Economy in Mexico's Michoacán State, Fausto Carbajal-Glass
  • 7. Diamond Mining, Organized Crime and Corruption, Dina Siegel
  • 8. Warlords and Their Black Holes: The Plunder of Mining Regions in Afghanistan and the Central African Republic by Organized Crime, Kimberley L. Thachuk
  • 9. Shadow Deals in the "Sunny Stone": Organized Crime and Informality in the Illicit Extraction and Trade of Amber in Ukraine, Yuliya Zabyelina and Nicole Kalczynski
  • 10. Between Informality and Organized Crime: Criminalization of Small-Scale Mining in the Peruvian Rainforest, Eva Bernet Kempers
  • 11. When Gold Speaks, Every Tongue is Silent: The Thin Line between Legal, Illegal, and Informal in Peru's Gold Supply Chain, Naomi van der Valk, Lieselot Bisschop and René van Swaaningen
  • 12. Migrant Workers, Artisanal Gold Mining, and "More-Than-Human" Sousveillance in South Africa's Closed Gold Mines, Matthew Nesvet
  • 13. Digging into the Mining Subculture: The Dynamics of Trafficking in Persons in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining of Peru's Madre de Dios, Dolores Cortés-McPherson
  • 14. Crude Oil's Ugly Sister: The Political-Criminal Nexus and Corruption inside Nigeria's Solid Minerals and Mining Sector, Sheelagh Brady
  • 15. Min(d)ing Corruption in International Investment Arbitration, Vasilka Sancin and Domen Turšic
  • 16. All That Glitters: Money Laundering Through Precious Metals and Minerals, Yuliya Zabyelina and Lilla Heins
  • 17. Prevention of Green Crimes in Informal Gold Mining in Peru: Challenges of Translation of Laws into Practice, Johanna Espin
  • 18. Mining as Ecocide: The Case of Adani and the Carmichael Mine in Australia, Olivia Hasler
  • 19. Environment Does Count: Legal Action against Destructive Mining in Australia, Rob White.