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Illegal Mining

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

Palgrave Macmillan

Editors:

  1. Yuliya Zabyelina

    1. Department of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA

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  2. Daan van Uhm

    1. Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  • Provides a much-needed examination of organized crime, corruption and environmental harm in the mining and extractive industries

  • Discusses the consequences of illegal mining, including violence, human exploitation, loss of economic revenue, and ecocide

  • Analyzes the diversification of organized crime into the mining industry

  • Covers the interplay between informal mining and organized crime and gold- and diamond-based money laundering

  • Evaluates existing responses to illegal mining from various stakeholders

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvii
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  4. Organized Crime and Informal Mining

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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  5. Mining, Corruption, and Money Laundering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 387-387
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    3. Min(d)ing Corruption in International Investment Arbitration

      • Vasilka Sancin, Domen Turšič
      Pages 413-438
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About this book

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. 
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Keywords

  • political sociology
  • ecojustice
  • environmental law
  • green criminology
  • natural resources
  • human rights
  • corporate crime
  • coal
  • gold mining
  • warlords
  • terrorism
  • forced labour
  • bribery
  • money laundering
  • ecocide
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Reviews

“In Illegal Mining the editors thoughtfully constellate a variety of scholarship together to produce this timely and important book … . this thought-provoking book is fundamental for empowering future decision-makers to do a better job than we and those before us were able to do … . Illegal Mining, and the research and scholarship therein, is a must-read book promoting a ‘gold’ standard for how academia should consider the twin, braided perils of OCGs and illegal mining.” (James Gacek, International Criminology, Vol. 1, 2021)
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA

    Yuliya Zabyelina

  • Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Daan van Uhm

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About the editors

Yuliya Zabyelina is Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA.

Daan van Uhm is Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, the Netherlands. 
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Illegal Mining

  • Book Subtitle: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World

  • Editors: Yuliya Zabyelina, Daan van Uhm

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46327-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46326-7Published: 06 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46329-8Published: 07 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46327-4Published: 05 October 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVII, 573

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Critical Criminology, Environmental Policy, Organized Crime, Crime Control and Security, Geoengineering, Civil Law

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eBook USD 119.00
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