ICJ 726 Drug Trafficking
This course focuses on drug trafficking, a global illicit trade. It examines trends in the type of drugs produced, manufactured, smuggled, and distributed at the transnational level. It illustrates various macro level factors including social, economic, political, and cultural with a specific focus on the crime opportunity structures that facilitate the drug trafficking business. It will introduce the economic principles of supply and demand, and business management principles in understanding the expanding entrepreneurial clandestine business. While it analyzes the role of criminal organizations and the evolving transnational networks, it will also emphasize the connections with other transnational crimes such as human trafficking and terrorism. Finally, it will review data sources, data analytical methods, and case studies of drug trafficking operations in the search for immediate and long-term counter measures both at national and international levels.
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