The international illegal trade of rare flora and fauna objects has long been an acute issue. At the same time, a significant volume smuggled species animals plants falls on Russian Federation. In order to counter criminal encroachments against endangered aquatic biological resources, amendments were made legislation, including Article 226.1. Criminal Code Federation, in accordance with which l...

We use four data sets (two from law enforcement, two from user reports) to estimate that the current price gradient for marijuana in the United States is $300 $1000 per pound per thousand miles, with $450 being perhaps the best guess. We take this as a measure of the cost of smuggling marijuana through parts of the US interior where marijuana is illegal. We combine this gradient with estimates ...

Drug smuggling is a worldwide problem with many negative e ects on the society. It is important to understand and predict smuggler's behavior in order to best position patrolling assets and disrupt his supply chain. The goal of this thesis is formalize smuggler's behavior and compare it with real-world data. Smuggler's route planner makes the main component of this thesis, it's formalized as bi...

Algeria’s economic crisis parallels and is an intrinsic part of its political crisis over the past decade. It consists, furthermore, of an interrelated crisis over control of the economic rent and the activities of an informal parallel economy originally based on smuggling and now sustained through violence which is legitimised by Islamist rhetoric. Economic reform, therefore, cannot be meaning...

This article takes up the critical discussion that has taken place at an international level by considering people smuggling as a crime. It focuses on clandestine transit migration of Cubans to Chile, associated with trafficking migrants, latter understood forced migration. From collaborative ethnographic follow-up, experience is collected while reconstructing motives, routes, lack coyote figur...