Lexington Books
Pages: 228
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Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-4985-7831-8 • Hardback • December 2019 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-4985-7833-2 • Paperback • July 2021 • $39.99 • (£31.00)
978-1-4985-7832-5 • eBook • December 2019 • $38.00 • (£29.00)
Donald R. Liddick Jr. is associate professor at The Pennsylvania State University
Chapter 1: Transnational Organized Crime and Natural Resources
Chapter 2: Diamonds
Chapter 3: Ivory
Chapter 4: Timber
Chapter 5: Wildlife
Chapter 6: Gems and Minerals
Chapter 7: Discussion and Implications
Donald Liddick contributes an exciting study into networks of serious crime and interfaces between legal and illegal actors that cross borders. The book offers case studies of illicit commerce in several commodities, transnational organized crime, corruption, and white-collar crime within the framework of green criminology linked to analyses of international trade, finance, conflict, and geopolitics.— Nikos Passas, Northeastern University
Donald Liddick continues his cutting-edge research and analysis at the intersection of transnational organized crime, corruption, and global security. Here he perceptively identifies the rule of law and personal and economic freedoms as keys to tackling the poverty and injustice resulting from both natural resources trafficking and resource deprivation, as well as the conflicts they breed and ferment. His resulting work sheds light on the generally inflexible and impractical dogma advanced so uncritically as solutions by green criminology, leaving us with a more reasonable, non-binary pathway to assess and pursue harm-reduction solutions to the insidious crimes documented in this work.
— Jeffrey McIllwain, San Diego State University