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Drug Smuggler Nation : Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920-1995 /

Drug smuggler nation shows how and why the Netherlands developed in the course of the twentieth century into a central hub of the international illegal drug trade, and develops a model of a 'criminal anarchy' that is historically, socially, and culturally embedded in Dutch society, in both...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snelders, Stephen, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction: The drug regulatory regime vs. criminal anarchy
  • 2 The interwar period
  • 3 Global perils I: Chinese and Greek drug smugglers
  • 4 Cannabis, counterculture, and criminals: The rise of cannabis smuggling
  • 5 Global perils II: Chinese triads, Turkish families, and heroin
  • 6 The expansion of the cannabis trade after 1976
  • 7 Global perils III: Colombian syndicates and cocaine
  • 8 The floodgates of criminal anarchy: Synthetic drugs and subverting the state
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Appendix: Graphs of arrests and seizures
  • Bibliography
  • Index