Illegal Mining: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World 1st Edition

Illegal Mining: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030463267,3030463265,9783030463274, 3030463273

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030463273
• ISBN-13: 9783030463274
• Author: Daan van Uhm; Yuliya Zabyelina

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illegal extraction of metals and minerals from the perspectives of organized crime theory, green criminology, anti-corruption studies, and victimology. It includes contributions that focus on organized crime-related offences, such as drug trafficking and trafficking in persons, extortion, corruption and money laundering and sheds light on the serious environmental harms caused by illegal mining. Based on a wide range of case studies from the Amazon rainforest through the Ukrainian flatlands to the desert-like savanna of Central African Republic and Australia’s elevated plateaus, this book offers a unique insight into the illegal mining business and the complex relationship between organized crime, corruption, and ecocide. This is the first book-length publication on illegal extraction, trafficking in mined commodities, and ecocide associated with mining. It will appeal to scholars working on organized crime and green crime, including criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and legal scholars. Practitioners and the general public may welcome this comprehensive and timely publication to contemplate on resource-scarcity, security, and crime in a rapidly changing world.

Table contents:

Part I. Introduction
1. The New Eldorado: Organized Crime, Informal Mining, and the Global Scarcity of Metals and Minerals
2. Why Organized Crime Seeks New Criminal Markets
3. The Queer Ladder of Social Mobility: Illegal Enterprise in the Anthracite Mining Region of Pennsylvania in the Interwar Decades (1917–1945)
Part II. Organized Crime in the Mining Sector
4. Links Between Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and Organized Crime in Latin America and Africa
5. The Diversification of Organized Crime into Gold Mining: Domination, Crime Convergence, and Ecocide in Darién, Colombia
6. Where the Metal Meets the Flesh: Organized Crime, Violence, and the Illicit Iron Ore Economy in Mexico’s Michoacán State
7. Diamond Mining, Organized Crime, and Corruption
8. Warlords and Their Black Holes: The Plunder of Mining Regions in Afghanistan and the Central African Republic by Organized Crime
Part III. Organized Crime and Informal Mining
9. Shadowy Deals with “Sunny Stone”: Organized Crime, Informal Mining, and the Illicit Trade of Amber in Ukraine
10. Between Informality and Organized Crime: Criminalization of Small-Scale Mining in the Peruvian Rainforest
11. When Gold Speaks, Every Tongue Is Silent: The Thin Line Between Legal, Illegal, and Informal in Peru’s Gold Supply Chain
12. Migrant Workers, Artisanal Gold Mining, and “More-Than-Human” Sousveillance in South Africa’s Closed Gold Mines
13. Digging into the Mining Subculture: The Dynamics of Trafficking in Persons in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining of Peru’s Madre de Dios
Part IV. Mining, Corruption, and Money Laundering
14. Crude Oil’s Ugly Sister: The Political-Criminal Nexus and Corruption Inside Nigeria’s Solid Minerals and Mining Sector
15. Min(d)ing Corruption in International Investment Arbitration
16. All that Glitters: Money Laundering Through Precious Metals and Minerals
Part V. Environmental Harm from Mining Activities
17. The Prevention of Green Crimes in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Peru: Translating Laws into Practice
18. Mining as Ecocide: The Case of Adani and the Carmichael Mine in Australia
19. Eco-Justice and Destructive Mining in Australia: Lessons from the New South Wales Land and Environmental Court

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