Synopsis
The authors of "Traffickers" reject the conventional idea that drug trafficking is dominated by large criminal organisations. Big traffickers, the mafia, cartels - these are myths, nourishing the popular imagination and stimulating advances in law enforcement. "Traffickers" exposes the diversity of drug trafficking today, and provides an account of how police operations work. It includes: accounts of the development of drug markets from the 1960s to the 1990s, a discussion of the evolution of new policing methods, including secret intelligence development operations, insider views on the development of a national detective agency for Britain and extended extracts from a hitherto unpublished and confidential report from the Association of Chief Police Officers. This book should be of interest to students of criminology, addiction, social policy, politics and law.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Traffickers presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement. The chamelion reality of the world of drug trafficking is described in the words of traffickers and detectives. Drug enforcement combines the banal and spectacular in surveillance, covert operations and criminal intelligence. The war on drugs is a harbinger of wider changes in the organisation of policing and international cooperation. Traffickers explores the struggle that transforms policing and punishment as it stimulates the imagination.
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