Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement
Traffickers presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement. The chamelion reality of the world of drug trafficking is described in the words of traffickers and detectives. Drug enforcement combines the banal and spectacular in surveillance, covert operations and criminal intelligence. The war on drugs is a harbinger of wider changes in the organisation of policing and international cooperation. Traffickers explores the struggle that...
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Presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement, describing the world of drug trafficking in the words of traffickers and detectives. Booknews Rejecting the conventional idea that drug trafficking is dominated by large criminal organizations, uses the words of those involved, both the dealers and the detectives, to reveal the diversity of drug trafficking today and provide an account of how police operations work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART 1: DRUG TRAFFICKERS. 1: The Good Old Days: reciprocity and public service. 2: Going for Cover: trafficking as a sideline. 3: Things Get Nasty: enter the criminal diversifier. 4: Contested Streets: retailing into the 1990s. PART 2:ENFORCEMENT STRATEGIES 5: Policing Localities: street operations. 6: Inner City Drug Squads: surveillance and but operations. 7: Policing Localities: street operations. PART 3: KEY ISSUES IN DRUG ENFORCEMENT. 8: Informants and Stings: tradition and innovation in plainclothes work. 9: Intelligence Rules: the centralisation of British policing. 10: The Punishment Illusion: your money and your life?. Conclusion: A Little Knowledge. Appendix: Extracts form ACPO's `Broome Report'. Bibliography. Subject Index. Author Index.
\ BooknewsRejecting the conventional idea that drug trafficking is dominated by large criminal organizations, uses the words of those involved, both the dealers and the detectives, to reveal the diversity of drug trafficking today and provide an account of how police operations work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
