Urban Smuggler

Author : Andrew Pritchard,Norman Parker
Publisher : Random House
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845968632

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Urban Smuggler by Andrew Pritchard,Norman Parker Pdf

Urban Smuggler chronicles the rollicking life story of one of the most prolific smugglers of our time. After leaving school at 14, Andrew Pritchard started out selling weed at house parties before moving on to run some of the biggest warehouse raves of the acid-house era. The money began to roll in, but with it came trouble, and when someone was murdered at one of his parties he was forced to go on the run to Jamaica. It was there that Pritchard learned the tricks of the smuggling trade, and with corrupt UK Customs officers in his pocket it seemed that nothing could go wrong. But then someone in his network used his supply chain to start shifting industrial amounts of cocaine. When he went to meet a shipment of counterfeit cigars, he was seized by a Customs task force and arrested when the goods turned out to be half a ton of premium-grade cocaine. Following two controversial trials, Pritchard was acquitted after eighteen months on remand. In Urban Smuggler, he reveals just how easy it can be to import shiploads of contraband into the UK and exposes the corruption within the law-enforcement agencies tasked to tackle this kind of crime. Here, then, is the inside story of how to become an 'urban smuggler'.

Author : Norman Parker,Andrew Pritchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798722696595

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Urban Smuggler by Norman Parker,Andrew Pritchard Pdf

It has all the elements of a Hollywood crime movie. Gangsters, guns, girls, tons of money and half a ton of cocaine. Enough to keep London's clubland snorting for months. And hanging over the entire story, a poisonous cloud of corruption. But this story isn't fiction. It's a fact. The locations aren't in Harlem. They're in England. And the lawmen aren't FBI agents, they are British Customs officers.

Author : Theodore Baird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317221432

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Human Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean by Theodore Baird Pdf

The organization of human smuggling from the Middle East and Africa through Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean has become a contemporary political concern throughout Europe, receiving intense and polarised media attention. This timely book reformulates how we conceive of human smuggling, challenging popular and political conceptions of the practice in Europe. This book proposes a new framework for examining the causes and effects of human smuggling in the Mediterranean, analysing the contingent patterns of human smuggling in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean with a geographic focus on Turkey. Building on unique empirical material from fieldwork in Turkey and Greece, this book describes the rise of human smuggling as a practice, viewed through a framework of multiple 'contingencies'. Uniquely, this book includes in-depth testimonies of migrants who have survived crossing the Aegean Sea and details the strategies and tactics of the facilitators who help them. In Human Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean, Theodore Baird puts a human face to the tragedies occurring in the Mediterranean while maintaining that contingent historical, political, economic, and geographic forces have aligned to propel the practice of human smuggling forward. The book will be of interest to scholars working in migration studies, as well as scholars in the fields of sociology, criminology, law, political science, anthropology, and geography.

Author : Andrew Pritchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798531698384

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The Urban Smuggler Limited Copy Edition

Author : Max Gallien
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231559614

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Smugglers and States by Max Gallien Pdf

Smuggling is typically thought of as furtive and hidden, taking place under the radar and beyond the reach of the state. But in many cases, governments tacitly permit illicit cross-border commerce, or even devise informal arrangements to regulate it. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the borderlands of Tunisia and Morocco, Max Gallien explains why states have long tolerated illegal trade across their borders and develops new ways to understand the political economy of smuggling. This book examines the rules and agreements that govern smuggling in North Africa, tracing the involvement of states in these practices and their consequences for borderland communities. Gallien demonstrates that, contrary to common assumptions about the effects of informal economies, smuggling can promote both state and social stability. States not only turn a blind eye to smuggling, they rely on it to secure political acquiescence and maintain order, because it provides income for otherwise neglected border communities. More recently, however, the securitization of borders, wars, political change, and the pandemic have put these arrangements under pressure. Gallien explores the renegotiation of the role of smuggling, showing how stability turns into vulnerability and why some groups have been able to thrive while others have been pushed further to the margins. With both rich empirical detail and novel theoretical contributions, Smugglers and States offers important insights into security and stability in North Africa and the prospects for economic inclusion in a context where many livelihoods exist outside of the law.

Author : Rajendra Kumar Sharma
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 8171566693

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Urban Sociology by Rajendra Kumar Sharma Pdf

The Book Covers Syllabi Of Various Universities In Urban Sociology. With Analytical Method Of Presentation And Holistic Outlook, Coupled With A Language Free From Technical Jargon, Along With Statistical Data From Indian Urban Scene, The Book Seeks To Serve The Needs Of Students As An Ideal Textbook And A Reference Book For Teachers, Planners, Politicians, Researchers And Social Workers.

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598847215

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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends [2 volumes] by Jan Harold Brunvand Pdf

This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online. From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terrorism, recent political events, and Hurricane Katrina. Entries in Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition discuss the presence of urban legends in comic books, literature, film, music, and many other areas of popular culture, as well as the existence of "too good to be true" stories in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. Serving as both an anthology of stories as well as a reference work, this encyclopedia will serve as a valuable resource for students and a source book for journalists, professional folklorists, and others who are researching or interested in urban legends.

Author : Mary J Thornbush,Casey D. Allen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128119525

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Urban Geomorphology by Mary J Thornbush,Casey D. Allen Pdf

Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities addresses the human impacts on landscapes through occupation (urbanization) and development as a contribution to anthropogenic geomorphology or "anthropogeomorphology." This includes a focus on land clearance, conservation issues, pollution, decay and erosion, urban climate, and anthropogenic climate change. These topics, as well as others, are considered to shed more light on the human transformation of natural landscapes and the environmental impacts and geomorphological hazards that environmental change can encompass. Its multidisciplinary approach is appropriate for audiences from a range of disciplines and professions, from geologists, conservationists, and land-use planners to architects and developers. Urban Geomorphology not only transcends disciplines, but also covers varied spatial-temporal frameworks and presents a diverse set of approaches and solutions to human impacts and geomorphological hazards within urban landscapes. Features a cross-disciplinary perspective, highlighting the importance of the geosciences to environmental science, engineering, and public policy Focuses on the built environment as the location of concentrated human impacts and change Provides an international scope, including case studies from urban areas around the world

Author : Luigi Achilli,David Kyle
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781421447520

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Global Human Smuggling by Luigi Achilli,David Kyle Pdf

Completely revised and updated: an essential edited collection of essays on global human smuggling. Migrant smuggling is now more entrenched than ever in many regions around the world, with efforts to combat it both largely unsuccessful and often counterproductive. In Global Human Smuggling, editors Luigi Achilli and David Kyle bring together up-to-date contributions from a wide array of interdisciplinary scholars on the most important issues related to this global phenomenon. Contributors explore human smuggling in several nuanced forms across diverse regions, examining its deep historical, social, economic, and cultural roots as well as its broad political consequences. This volume represents a cutting-edge chronicle of the state of human smuggling today, its many complexities not easily reduced to simple moral narratives, and how researchers uncover the lives it affects, both directly and indirectly. Just as migrants cross borders for a variety of reasons, many of those involved in migrant smuggling activities have an equally diverse set of motivations and organizations, ranging from those helping people escape persecution and violence to transnational criminal syndicates preying on the vulnerabilities of migrants attempting to leave their countries. Building on the pioneering work of its previous two editions, this new volume introduces contributions organized by the themes of control, complexity, and creativity. Spanning issues around the world, the essays in this essential collection cover topics such as global migrant smuggling networks, government responses, multinational initiatives against human trafficking for sexual exploitation, representations of human smuggling in mainstream narratives of migration, and more. With nineteen new contributors, the third edition of Global Human Smuggling represents the progress of human smuggling research on every continent and offers a rare research-based and conceptual framework for the study of this critical global issue.

Author : Peter Tinti,Tuesday Reitano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Crime and globalization
ISBN : 9781849049535

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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour by Peter Tinti,Tuesday Reitano Pdf

When states, charities and NGOs either ignore or are overwhelmed by movement of people on a vast scale, criminal networks step into the breach. This book explains what happens next.

Author : Peter Tinti,Tuesday Reitano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190668617

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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior by Peter Tinti,Tuesday Reitano Pdf

Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior investigates one of the most under-examined aspects of the great migration crisis of our time. As millions seek passage to Europe, in order to escape violent conflicts, repressive governments, and crushing poverty, their movements are enabled and actively encouraged by criminal networks that amass billions of dollars by facilitating their transport. Many of these smugglers carry out their activities with little regard for human rights, which has led to a manifold increase in human suffering, not only in the Mediterranean Sea, but also along the overland smuggling routes that cross the Sahara, penetrate deep into the Balkans, and through hidden corners of Europe's capitals. But some of these smugglers are revered as saviors by those they move, for it is they who deliver men, women, and children to a safer place and a better life. Disconcertingly, it is often criminals who help the most desperate among us when the international system fails to come to their aid. This book is a measured attempt, born of years of research and reporting in the field, to better understand how human-smuggling networks function, the ways in which they have evolved, and what they mean for peace and security in the future.

Author : Max Daly,Steve Sampson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781448136490

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Narcomania by Max Daly,Steve Sampson Pdf

A timely and gripping investigation of illegal drugs in the UK. Filled with fascinating and shocking case studies gathered over twenty years of investigative reporting, it explodes many of the myths and misconceptions about drug use, and makes a compelling case for a new way forward. Looking at the dealers, the users, the police and the politicians, Narcomania charts how consumption and markets have fragmented and changed over the last decade; follows the money to reveal where Britain's licit and illicit economies overlap; explains where each of the major recreational drugs comes from; and maps which drugs are popular in different parts of the country. It will explode many of the myths and misconceptions about drug use, and tap into fraught debates about how politicians, parents and police should respond. In the wake of the internet boom, globalisation and a decade of decadence, Britain sits at a crossroads in the legalisation-versus-intolerance debate. While other nations have succeeded with progressive experiments, inertia and self-contradiction define British drug policy to the detriment of everyone except the criminal underworld. Unsurprisingly, in the light of this book, our politicians are confused about what will please or displease the all-important middle class electorate. Equally unsurprisingly, however, so much myth and confusion surrounds the subject that clarity must be brought to chaos if the wisdom of the crowd is ever to surface....

Author : Dan Tobyne
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781608939923

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Urban Archaeology Boston by Dan Tobyne Pdf

Cities are constantly changing, constantly under construction, constantly moving forward. But if you know how and where to look, and if you look carefully, much of the past is waiting to be rediscovered beneath the façade of progress. Dan Tobyne leads readers on a contemporary archaeological tour of Boston, revealing fascinating aspects of the city’s history through what remains of old buildings, structures, streets, and even such mundane objects as manhole covers, callboxes, and trash cans.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210010728879

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Criminal Aliens by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees Pdf

Author : Edward Weiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Highway planning
ISBN : NWU:35556028229425

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Urban Transportation Planning in the United States by Edward Weiner Pdf