Editors:
- 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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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Organized Crime in the Mining Sector
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Front Matter
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Organized Crime and Informal Mining
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Front Matter
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Mining, Corruption, and Money Laundering
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Front Matter
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About this book
Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA
Yuliya Zabyelina
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Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Daan van Uhm
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