Overview
- Provides a much-needed examination of organized crime, corruption and environmental harm in the mining and extractive industries
- Discusses the consequences of illegal mining, including violence, human exploitation, loss of economic revenue, and ecocide
- Analyzes the diversification of organized crime into the mining industry
- Covers the interplay between informal mining and organized crime and gold- and diamond-based money laundering
- Evaluates existing responses to illegal mining from various stakeholders
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Introduction
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Organized Crime in the Mining Sector
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Organized Crime and Informal Mining
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Mining, Corruption, and Money Laundering
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daan van Uhm is Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Illegal Mining
Book Subtitle: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World
Editors: Yuliya Zabyelina, Daan van Uhm
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46327-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46326-7Published: 06 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46329-8Published: 07 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46327-4Published: 05 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 573
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Critical Criminology, Environmental Policy, Organized Crime, Crime Control and Security, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Civil Law