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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLatin American women play a key role in the international cocaine business as couriers or mules. Beginning from theoretical perspectives that explain the relationship between criminality and gender, we analyze why women...
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From:Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis Note centers on the subject of smuggling submersibles and semisubmersibles. Colloquially called "narco subs," these vessels are now one of the primary methods drug cartels use to sneak drugs into the United States....
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From:Washington University Global Studies Law Review (Vol. 8, Issue 4)I. INTRODUCTION International drug smuggling is probably the fastest-growing industry in the world and is unquestionably the most profitable. The global drug trade produces approximately $400 billion a year in annual...
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From:Georgetown Journal of International Law (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDespite recent efforts to combat sources of terrorist financing, the drug trade continues to provide terrorist organizations with the means to finance their operations. International legal instruments currently in...
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From:Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 30, Issue 4)International drug trafficking looms large in the future of international relations. Although drug production and consumption can no longer be labeled as problems belonging to a few discrete nations, some countries'...
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From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWomen's involvement in drug trafficking in recent years has expanded dramatically. Yet there are few studies of female drug smugglers, the causes of female involvement in smuggling, and the impact of smuggling on...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 66, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the last decade, West Africa emerged as a major transit hub for Latin American Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) transporting cocaine to Western Europe. Since that time, there has been cause for hope and despair....
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAmerican Indians in the United States who reside within close proximity to the US-Mexico and US-Canada borders are directly and indirectly affected by activity associated with drug trafficking. Evidence suggests that...
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From:Loyola Maritime Law Journal (Vol. 10, Issue 2)I. INTRODUCTION The trafficking of narcotics on both navigable waterways and the high seas has been an elusive and challenging foe in the United States' arduous war on drugs. Improved radar and navigation systems...
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From:The Geographical Review (Vol. 108, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs globalization processes continue to impact patterns in drug-trafficking operations worldwide, a cyber-based dimension of the drug trade has recently emerged via the Tor Network. This study employed geovisualization...
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From:Stability: International Journal of Security and Development (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Kwesi Aning [1]; John Pokoo [1] Introduction Since the 1990s, West Africa has become a major transit and repackaging hub for cocaine and heroin originating from the Latin American and Asian producing...
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From:Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedForty years ago, the world declared war on drugs. Today, after decades of failing to adequately control drug consumption, an even graver problem has emerged: violent drug traffickers have taken the industry hostage and...
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From:Contemporary Southeast Asia (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe problem of narcotics trafficking (and more recently, methamphetamine production and trafficking) in Myanmar has been a regional and international problem for decades. The issue must be approached as an economic and...
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From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 37, Issue 1)I. INTRODUCTION Organized, internationally-based drug traffickers with vast financial resources pose a serious threat to the stability and security of the international community. They operate without concern for...
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From:ORBIS (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBooks on the dangers of international drug trade on US' national security and interests are reviewed. The authors of these books observed the futility of the government's campaign against drug trafficking which is...
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From:Houston Journal of International Law (Vol. 37, Issue 1)I. INTRODUCTION Over a period of several decades, drug trafficking has gradually blossomed into a global problem, and has established itself as one of the world's largest grossing enterprises. (1) In response to the...
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From:Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe present paper explores the advantages of using framing theory, social representations theory and differences in ideology to analyze polarized issues in the press. Framing uncovers the structure/format of news...
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From:Canadian Journal of Public Health (Vol. 107, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVES: Street-involved youth are highly vulnerable to violence. While involvement in income-generating activities within illicit drug scenes is recognized as shaping youths' vulnerability to violence, the relative...
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From:Economic Inquiry (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFederal data on drug trafficking sentences are used to determine factors that affect market quantities of providing information against other defendants (i.e., defendant probabilities of receiving testimony-related...
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From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 87, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Supreme Court ruled in Bailey v. United States that evidence on use of a firearm during a drug-trafficking crime under 18 USC 924(c)(1) required evidence of the firearm being an operative factor in the commission of...