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Illicit Firearms Markets and Organized Crime: Global, Regional, and Local Perspectives

Illicit Firearms Markets and Organized Crime: Global, Regional, and Local Perspectives

Author: David Bright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198902379
Published In: January 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Illicit firearms are a key enabler of organized criminal groups and illegal trade. They facilitate conflict over control of these markets, deter legitimate state actors from intervening, are deployed to threaten and coerce communities, to extort money from victims, and to facilitate a range of crimes. The sale of illegal firearms and organized crime combine to cause significant economic, social, and political harm. There is a clear and pressing need for better understanding of how illicit firearms markets are related to other forms of transnational organized crime, including drug trafficking.

Illicit Firearms Markets and Organised Crime is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from leading and emerging experts whose research considers the intersections between illicit firearms, organized crime, and criminal networks across the globe. This cutting-edge research considers the trade of illegal firearms in different regions, with a specific focus on the interconnections and interrelationships between this trade and organised crime. Each chapter considers a particular global region and / or a specific thematic area, and sheds light on the links between the markets, the trafficking of firearms, and organized crime.

A number of key themes emerge from this collection including: the methods and routes by which firearms enter illicit markets; illegal firearms as facilitators and enablers of other criminal markets and crimes; the role of illicit firearms in exacerbating organized crime and violence; as well as policy responses to illegal firearms and the efficacy of such, including unintended consequences.

Introduction, David Bright

Part I

1:The Illicit Sources of Guns to Criminal Groups in the United States, Anthony Braga

2:Organized Crime and Illicit Firearms in Europe, Lina Grip

3:Illicit Firearms, Organized Crime, and Illegal Economies in South-east Asia, Michael E. Picard

4:The Nexus of Firearms and Organized Crime in Latin America, Carlos A. Pérez Ricart

5:Illicit Firearms Markets and Organized Crime in Eastern Europe, Piotr Chlebowicz

6:Illicit Firearms Markets and Organized Crime in Africa, Adewunmi J. Falode and Wasiu A. Balogun

7:Not Just a Ballistic Affair: Firearms Trafficking, Crime, and Violence in the Caribbean, Nicolas Florquin, Simon Anderson, Anne-Séverine Fabre, Callixtus Joseph, and Joy St. John

Part II

8:Firearms Technology and Organized Crime: Assessing the Threat, Monique Mann, David Bright, and Ashley Allen

9:Illicit Firearms Markets Accessible Through the Dark Web, David Décary-Hétu, Arielle Chainé, and Étienne Blais

10:A Multiplex Network Perspective on Illicit Firearms Trafficking, Fenna van der Wijk, David Bright, and Freddie Kootstra

11:'If You Get into the Business, You Have to Arm Up': The Possession, Display and Discharge of Firearms by Members of Organized Criminal Groups, David Bright and Mark Halsey

12:Firearms, Conflict, and Terrorism-A Violent Nexus, Annelies Pauwels and Nils Duquet

Conclusion, David Bright