scholarly journals LEVERAGING WRITING AND PHOTOGRAPHY STYLES FOR DRUG TRAFFICKER IDENTIFICATION IN DARKNET MARKETS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEI SONG
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficker

Plan Colombia

2020 ◽  
pp. 211-228
Author(s):  
Russell Crandall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Drug Trafficker ◽  
Plan Colombia ◽  
Cali Cartel

This chapter begins with the American and Colombian anti-drug officials that celebrated Pablo Escobar's “decapitation,” as proof that the kingpin strategy was on its way to eradicating cocaine trafficking in Colombia. It mentions that Medellín's drug bosses met to discuss in the neighborhood of Envigado after Escobar's death, from which emerged the so-called Envigado Office lead by Don Berna. It also describes Don Berna as a formidable Medellín drug trafficker and a former member of the Marxist Popular Liberation Army. The chapter refers to the Cali cartel, an association of four billionaires who managed a worldwide cocaine monopoly, controlling everything from production in Peru and Colombia to sales in the suburbs and cities in the United States and around the globe. It emphasizes how the “decapitations” of the Medellín and Cali cartel's atomized cocaine production and trafficking into smaller entities that were much harder to track and interdict, proving that the kingpin strategy was working.

TARGETING NARCOINSURGENTS IN AFGHANISTAN: THE LIMITS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 301-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
International Security ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Drug Trade ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Drug Trafficker ◽  
Joint Force ◽  
Military Objective ◽  
Drug Traffickers ◽  
International Security Assistance Force

AbstractIn October 2008, upon the request of the Afghan government, NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Budapest agreed that ‘ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] can act in concert with the Afghans against facilities and facilitators supporting the insurgency, in the context of counternarcotics, subject to the authorization of respective nations’. In explaining the scope of the contemplated actions, NATO officials noted that drug producers and traffickers who aided the ongoing insurgency could now be attacked. NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), US General Bantz Craddock, justified the policy on the ground that the Taliban reaped over $100 million annually from the drug trade. US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates likewise defended the decision as sound strategy.It soon became clear that other key figures were less enamoured with the new approach, or the subsequent guidance issued to effectuate it. On 5 January 2009, Craddock instructed General Egon Ramms, the German Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum, which overseas NATO operations in Afghanistan, ‘to attack directly drug producers and facilities throughout Afghanistan’. The threshold for engagement seemed to require little connection to the insurgency. According to SACEUR's guidance, it was ‘no longer necessary to produce intelligence or other evidence that each particular drug trafficker or narcotics facility in Afghanistan meets the criteria of being a military objective’ because the alliance ‘has decided that (drug traffickers and narcotics facilities) are inextricably linked to the Opposing Military Forces, and thus may be attacked’.

El Chapo arrest will not improve Mexican security

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organised Crime ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Drug Trafficker ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Government

Subject The recapture of the world's most-wanted drug trafficker. Significance On January 8, federal police detained fugitive drug trafficker Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera, following his high-profile escape from the maximum-security Altiplano prison on July 11. Both his escape and his recapture have generated considerable media attention, and could have ramifications for organised crime, the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto and US-Mexican relations. Impacts Another escape, though possible, is extremely unlikely. El Chapo's extradition may not take place until after the end of Pena Nieto's term. Any popularity increase for Pena Nieto resulting from the recapture will be short lived. While the Sinaloa cartel is relatively cohesive, it may splinter in the medium-to-long term.

Explanations for High-IQ Crime

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Oleson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Life History ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Drug Trafficker ◽  
History Of ◽  
Qualitative Analyses

This chapter describes the qualitative analyses derived from the forty-four follow-up interviews. It relays the life history of “Faulkner,” a drug trafficker with a 162 IQ who claims to have killed fifteen people. The chapter also describes the analysis of qualitative materials in light of Travis Hirschi’s theory of social bonds, noting that the interviews were consistent with explanations of crime based upon weakened social bonds (including elements of attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief). The chapter asks whether high IQ is always a protective factor or whether, at some levels and under some circumstances, it might operate as a criminogenic risk factor.

Outcome of a Police Media Campaign to Elicit Information from the Public about Trafficking in Victoria

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Hendtlass
Keyword(s):  
Drug Distribution ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Drug Trafficker ◽  
The Public ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
The Media ◽  
Drug Traffickers

Operation Noah was a co-operative police-media effort to encourage the public to give the police anonymous information about drug traffickers, manufacturers and growers in Victoria. Although there were over 400 phone calls made to police only 22 individuals were charged with drug offences as a result. None of these were drug traffickers or manufacturers. There was a big discrepancy between the types of people alleged to be involved in drug distribution by respondents to the call for information and those reported by police during normal operational duties. Since the individuals nominated by the public conformed to the stereotype of a drug trafficker generally carried by the media in news and drama programmes and during Operation Noah, it is suggested that this contributed to the large amount of misinformation reported to police and the consequent failure of the Operation to achieve its nominated goal.

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