Drug smugglers on drug smuggling : lessons from the inside / Scott H. Decker and Margaret Townsend Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Decker, Scott H.

Contributor:

Chapman, Margaret Townsend, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug traffic.

Drug dealers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling examines the organizational structures of drug smuggling from Colombia to the US. Career drug smugglers describe a series of often disconnected networks that enable smugglers to best organize their business in a way that will minimize the risks of apprhension and maximize profits.

Contents:

Motivation for the study

Organization of the study

Drug smuggling organizations

Movement of drugs

Roles, recruitment into, and remaining involved in the drug smuggling trade

Balancing risk and reward

Making sense of drug smuggling : conclusions and summary.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206) and index.

ISBN:

9786611383091

9781281383099

1281383090

9781592136445

1592136443

OCLC:

476156697