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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"drug trade"”.
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How the Drug Trade is Facilitated Online: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
The drug trade is part of society and will, therefore, continue to evolve as society evolves. Technology plays a significant role in the evolution of society and the drug trade alike. Technological developments such as the internet have facilitated our lives. Several conditions have contributed to …
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THE WEST AFRICA-LATIN AMERICA DRUG TRAFFICKING EPIDEMIC; AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
… marketing and consumption of illicit drugs. The countries in West Africa have not been spared of the negative consequences of illicit drugs. While some countries have an illicit drug production problem, others have a consumption problem. The countries in West Africa have an illicit …
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Opium production and distribution: Poppies, profits and power in Afghanistan
… />infrastructure, economic stability to farmers, drug trafficking thrives primarily when a country has been in a state of permanent turmoil, and the Taliban fund their insurgency because of the drug trade. However, these ideas lack a careful analysis of the geographic, cultural, and social …
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Essays in economic development and political economy
… entitled "Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War" examines how drug traffickers' economic objectives influence the direct and spillover effects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico during the past five years, claiming …
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American Dreams: Portrayals of Race, Class, and 21st Century Capitalism in David Simon and Ed Burns’ The Wire,
… of Baltimore, with a particular focus on the drug trade and its social and psychological effects on Baltimore’s black underclass. This dissertation values The Wire as a major achievement in television, for its sophisticated and intricate approach in exposing and critiquing systemic problems of …
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Street Gangs, Outlaw Bikers, the Mafia and the Mexican Cartels: Dynamics of Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in Canada
… Mexican organizations active in the cocaine trade have chosen to stop working through Canadian middlemen and have instead established a direct presence in Canada. What factors have facilitated this decision? How is it likely to affect the dynamics of the transnational drug trade in Canada? It …
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The Southern Strategy: the People's Republic of China and Its Operations in Latin America
… for more than thirty-five years and support the drug trade in its malignant operations. This thesis examines Beijing's strategy in Latin America by analyzing selected examples of Chinese involvement in the region.
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Shooting up : the impact of illicit economics on military conflict
… treated as sui generis, the study situates the drug trade within the larger class of markets for illicit products and services. The study presents a general theory of the relationship between illicit markets and military conflict - the political capital of illicit economies -- and contrasts it …
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El narcotráfico como realidad y representación en la narrativa de Germán Castro Caycedo
… society conditioned by the complex issue of drugs and drug trafficking, which were the by-products of a socio-historical process since the beginning of the 20th century. The present investigation examines journalistic articles, essays and non-fiction narrative by Castro Caycedo to study how …
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New World Drugs in England's Early Empire
How were New World drugs received and understood in early modern England? In the seventeenth century, England’s first empire was being established and an increasing abundance of medicinal plants arrived in London from across the Atlantic. In this thesis, I argue that commercial and political …
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The immunodetection of cocaine for forensic applications.
Cocaine on banknotes can be indicative of drug trade; analytical methods which can distinguish ‘drug money’ from contaminated banknotes in general circulation are crucial in providing incriminating evidence. The development and application of two analytical methods for the detection of cocaine on …
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Diasporic identities, autochthonous rights: race, gender, and the cultural politics of Creole land rights in Nicaragua
… associate blackness with criminality and the drug trade. Even though Creoles are no longer explicitly denied citizenship on the basis of their racial and cultural difference, emergent racial hegemonies work to make them implicitly unworthy of full citizenship due to their assumed criminality, …
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The Evolution of Poltical Violence in Jamaica 1940-1980
… argues that the development of Jamaican trade unionism and its corresponding leadership created the political framework out of which Jamaica's two major political parties, the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) and People's National Party (PNP) emerged. Within the evolution of their support base …
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The Political Economy of the Overdose Crisis in Western Canada: An Exploratory Case Study
Background: Canada is in the throes of a drug/substance overdose crisis causing unprecedented numbers of overdose and death. Responses to the crisis have been largely reactive and/or medical in nature, highlighting the need for better understanding of its underlying structural determinants. The …
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The need for harmonisation of wildlife crime laws in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) A case study of the illicit abalone trade
The illicit wildlife trade (IWT) is the fourth most lucrative form of organised crime globally (Donnenfeld & Aucoin, 2017:1). The Global Financial Integrity (GFI) reports that IWT is one of the most profitable and illicit economies with a profit margin of US$ 23 billion annually (May, 2017:np). It …
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Beyond the Hold of Death: The Issues and Concerns of Women Formerly on Death Row in the Philippines
… were incarcerated for kidnapping and drug-related offenses. A smaller proportion of the women were incarcerated for such crimes as: parricide (killing their husbands), murder, car theft with murder, and arson with homicide. Only 10 women pleaded guilty; of this, two women charged with …
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The politics of drugs and conflict: the challenges of insurgency and state-building in Afghanistan
… of the problem – (a), links between illicit drugs and conflict and (b), the mechanism and extent to which illicit drug production and trade weaken the state. The research question I have set out for this project is: “what is the impact of illicit drugs on conflict and how does access to drugs …