Counterfeit crime : criminal profits, terror dollars, and nonsense / R.T. Naylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naylor, R. T., 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial crimes.

Commercial crimes--Government policy.

Transnational crime.

Transnational crime--Government policy.

Terrorism--Government policy.

Terrorism.

Government policy.

Physical Description:

viii, 290 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"In Counterfeit Crime, economist, historian, and criminologist R.T. Naylor dissects the costs - economic, social, and political - of the seemingly never-ending wars on the grossly exaggerated menaces of Crime and Terror and how most things politicians do to combat them make matters worse - for the public and the public good."--book jacket.

Contents:

Clone artists and copycats: global pandemic or counterfeit crime?

The underground economy: a ruse by any other name?

The criminal entrepreneur: predator, parasite, or free-market pioneer?

On the track of the black greenback

Ghosts of terror wars past and the roots of the military-industrial complex

The geopolitics of theopolitics and the rise of black-collar crime

Middle East meets Midwest? Theopolitics, crime, and terror in the USA

Brand name terrorism, la Crise d'Octobre, and lessons for a post-9/11 world

Criminal profits, terror dollars and yet more nonsense.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Naylor, R. T., 1945-, author. Counterfeit crime.

ISBN:

9780773543461

0773543465

OCLC:

867897607