Drugs and Money: Managing the Drug Trade and Crime Money in Europe

by Levi; Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415341769
• ISBN10: 0415341760
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Drugs and Moneycovers a diverse range of subjects, starting with an analysis of the policy of fear in which law enforcement is haunted by drug money. In this intriguing book, Petrus C. van Duyne and Michael Levi introduce the reader to an ever-unfolding series of problems: mind control, mind-influencing substances, the complications of international drug regulation, and the interaction between markets and actors, with the consequent amassing of huge amounts of crime-money. The social and economic aspects of crime-money are reconsidered and described in terms of the threat they pose to the legitimate economy.

Author Biography

Petrus C. van Duyne is a Professor of Empirical Penal Science at the University of Tilburg.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	vii
Preface	ix
1 The mind, drugs and the policy of fear	1	(18)
1.1 The concern for the 'correct' state of mind	3	(4)
1.2 Drugs, public health and the modern state	7	(2)
1.3 Zero tolerance and prohibition	9	(6)
1.4 The fear of the fruits of crime: money	15	(4)
2 The unfolding of illegal drug markets in Europe	19	(38)
2.1 Eurodrug markets and the United States	19	(3)
2.2 Some international developments	22	(2)
2.3 The onset of the illegal drug market	24	(5)
2.4 Freedom and indulgence	29	(3)
2.5 Market movements, hot money and Cold War	32	(10)
2.6 The European drug market	42	(15)
3 Commerce, constraints and enterprise features	57	(33)
3.1 Organizing criminal commerce	58	(13)
3.2 Market functions/diversity and players	71	(16)
3.3 Just another market?	87	(3)
4 Drug markets in action	90	(16)
4.1 Drug markets in some European cities	91	(5)
4.2 Ecstasy and raves in three cities	96	(7)
4.3 Weed in the attic and organizing crime	103	(3)
5 The volume of drug money and money management	106	(37)
5.1 The volume of the drug money	107	(9)
5.2 The analysis of the 'big earners'	116	(19)
5.3 The hard core of the scare of drug money	135	(8)
6 The craft of laundering and the counter-reaction	143	(25)
6.1 The law unleashed	145	(7)
6.2 The hazy criminal response	152	(12)
6.3 Legislative automatism and tunnel vision	164	(4)
7 Haunted by drugs or money?	168	(17)
7.1 Fighting sin, foreign policy and public health	170	(2)
7.2 The uncertain grounds of the public health foundation	172	(3)
7.3 Drugs and money	175	(5)
7.4 Conclusions	180	(5)
References	185	(14)
Index	199