This pioneering study looks across key trafficking crimes to develop a social theory of transnational criminal markets. These include human trafficking, drug dealing, and black markets in wildlife, diamonds, guns and antiquities, The author offers an in-depth analysis of structural similarities and differences within illicit trade networks, and explores the economic underpinnings which drive global trafficking. Revealing how traffickers think of their illegal enterprises as 'just business', he draws broader lessons for the ways forward in understanding criminality in this emerging field.

About the Author
Simon Mackenzie is Professor of Criminology and Head of the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.


Book Information
ISBN 9781529203806
Author Simon Mackenzie
Format Paperback
Page Count 210
Imprint Bristol University Press
Publisher Bristol University Press