Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling: Lessons from the Inside - Hardcover

Decker, Scott H.; Chapman, Margaret Townsend

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592136427 ISBN 13: 9781592136421

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling examines the organizational structures of drug smuggling from Colombia to the US.  Career drug smugglers describe a series of often disconnected networks that enable smugglers to best organize their business in a way that will minimize the risks of apprhension and maximize profits.  

About this title

Book Description

Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling features interviews with 34 convicted drug smugglers -- most of them once major operators -- detailing exactly how drugs are smuggled into the U.S. from Latin America.  These sources provide tangible evidence of the risks, rewards, and organization of international drug smuggling.

Quoting frequently from their interviews, Decker and Chapman explain how individuals are recruited into smuggling, why they stay in it, and how their roles change over time.  They describe the specific strategies their interviewees employed to bring drugs into the country and how they previously escaped apprehension.  Over-all, the authors find that drug smuggling is organized in a series of networks which are usually unconnected.

This extraordinarily informative book will be of particular interest to law enforcement officials and policymakers, but it will appeal to anyone who wants to know how the drug business actually works.

About the Author

Scott H. Decker is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University.  He is the author of Life in the Gang: Family, Friends and Violence.

Margaret Townsend Chapman is an Associate at Abt Associates Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1592136427
• ISBN 13: 9781592136421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224