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

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

Author: Yuliya Zabyelina; Daan van Uhm
Publisher: Springer International
ISBN: 9783030463298
Published In: October 2021
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
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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.

Foreword

Riikka Puttonnen

Notes on Contributors

Acronyms

List of Figures and Images

List of Tables

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. The New Eldorado: Organized Crime, Informal Mining, and the Global Scarcity of Metals and Minerals

Yuliya Zabyelina and Daan van Uhm

Chapter 2. Why Organized Crime Seeks New Criminal Marnests

Jay S. Albanese

Chapter 3. The Queer Ladder of Social Mobility: Illegal Enterprise in the Anthracite Mining Region of Pennsylvania in the Interwar Decades (1917-1945)

Robert Schmidt

Part II. Organized Crime in the Mining Sector

Chapter 4. Links Between Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and Organized Crime in Latin America and Africa

Livia Wagner and Marcena Hunter

Chapter 5. The Diversification of Organized Crime into Gold Mining: Domination, Crime Convergence, and Ecocide in Darien, Colombia

Daan van Uhm

Chapter 6. Where the Metal Meets the Flesh: Organized Crime, Violence, and the Illicit Iron Ore Economy in Mexico's Michoacan State

Fausto Carbajal-Glass

Chapter 7. Diamond Mining, Organized Crime and Corruption

Dina Siegel

Chapter 8. Warlords and Their Black Holes: The Plunder of Mining Regions in Afghanistan and the Central African Republic by Organized Crime

Kimberley L. Thachuk

Part III. Organized Crime and Informal Mining

Chapter 9. Shadow Deals in the "Sunny Stone": Organized Crime and Informality in the Illicit Extraction and Trade of Amber in Ukraine

Yuliya Zabyelina and Nicole Kalczynski

Chapter 10. Between Informality and Organized Crime: Criminalization of Small-Scale Mining in the Peruvian Rainforest

Eva Bernet Kempers

Chapter 11. When Gold Speaks, Every Tongue is Silent: The Thin Line between Legal, Illegal, and Informal in Peru's Gold Supply Chain

Naomi van der Valk, Lieselot Bisschop and Rene van Swaaningen

Chapter 12. Migrant Workers, Artisanal Gold Mining, and "More-Than-Human" Sousveillance in South Africa's Closed Gold Mines

Matthew Nesvet

Chapter 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

Dolores Corte s-McPherson

Part IV. Mining, Corruption, and Money Laundering

Chapter 14. Crude Oil's Ugly Sister: The Political-Criminal Nexus and Corruption inside Nigeria's Solid Minerals and Mining Sector

Sheelagh Brady

Chapter 15. Min(d)ing Corruption in International Investment Arbitration

Vasilka Sancin and Domen Tursic

Chapter 16. All That Glitters: Money Laundering Through Precious Metals and Minerals

Yuliya Zabyelina and Lilla Heins

Part V. Environmental Harm from Illegal Mining Activities

Chapter 17. Prevention of Green Crimes in Informal Gold Mining in Peru: Challenges of Translation of Laws into Practice

Johanna Espin

Chapter 18. Mining as Ecocide: The Case of Adani and the Carmichael Mine in Australia