Library Resources for Criminology/Policing & Justice: Transnational Crime

Norberry, J, Woolner, D & Magarey, K c1996, 'After Port Arthur - Issues of Gun Control in Australia', Current Issues Brief no.16

Kinsella, DT 2005, The black market in small arms: examining a social network, Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations, No.4, pp.1-37.

DellaVigna, S & La Ferrara, E 2008, 'Detecting illegal arms trade', American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol.2, no.4, pp. 26-57.

Naim, M 2003, 'The five wars of globalization', Foreign Policy, viewed 12 June 2015.

Anders Akerman & Anna Larsson, 2011.

Paoli, GP & Bove, V 2014, 'Illegal small arms trade requires a global response', The Conversation, viewed 12 June 2015.

Detailing the current understanding of the nature and extent of illicit firearms in the Australian community. Published by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Canberra, 2016.

By Richard A Bitzinger, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2015.

Australia and other members of the international community recognise the need for early, concerted action to address the problems posed by small arms and light weapons.

Small Arms Survey 2015, Small Arms Survey 2015, International Programme Council, Geneva, Switzerland.

Efrat, A 2010, 'Toward internationally regulated goods: controlling the trade in small arms and light weapons', International Organization, vol. 64, pp. 97–131.

The landmark Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), regulating the international trade in conventional arms – from small arms to battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships – entered into force on 24 December 2014.

Hughes, C, Ritter, A, Cowdery, N & Phillips, B 2014, ‘Australian threshold quantities for ‘drug trafficking’: Are they placing drug users at risk of unjustified sanction?’, Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, no. 467, pp.1-7.

Published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Hughes, C, Ritter, A, Cowdery, N & Phillips 2014, Evaluating Australian drug trafficking thresholds: Proportionate, equitable and just?, Criminology Research Council, Canberra.

Robin, R & Reuter, P 2012, 'How well do international drug conventions protect public health?,' Lancet, vol. 379, pp.84-91

Published by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (formerly the Australian Crime Commission), Canberra, 2016.

Hughes, C 2010, 'Legislative thresholds for drug possession and traffic: An overview of State and Territory differences in Australia,' Drug Policy Modelling Program, no.18, pp. 1-3

Published by the UNODC.

Published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations, by Christopher Paul, Colin P. Clarke, Chad C. Serena. Published by RAND, 2014.

Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations — Supporting Case Studies, by Christopher Paul, Colin P. Clarke, Chad C. Serena. Published by RAND, 2014

Astorga, L & Shirk, D A 2010, Drug trafficking organizations and counter-drug strategies in the US-Mexican context, Center for US-Mexican Studies, San Diego, CA.

Bonner, R C 2010, 'The new cocaine cowboys: how to defeat Mexico's drug cartels,' Foreign Affairs, July/August, pp.35-47.

Dell, M 2015, 'Trafficking networks and the Mexican drug war,' The American Economic Review, vol. 105, no. 6, pp.1738-1779.

Hughes, C 2010, 'Legislative thresholds for
drug possession and traffic: An overview of State and Territory differences in Australia,' Drug Policy Modelling Program, no.18, pp. 1-3

Published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

A separate page has been created for this topic. Click on the link above to access this page.

Hosted by AustLII. This site contains articles about people smuggling and people trafficking.

Place the following keywords into the search box: organ trade

by Bruce A. Forster, American International Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 3 No. 1; January 2013.

Try the following searches: "organ trafficking"

Program produced by Four Corners, march 2013.

Joint Council of Europe/United Nations Study, 2009.

More information about the organ trade is available from this page.

by Andrew Forbes and Published by the Australian Navy, 2011.

Amri, A 2013, Paper presented at the Southeast Asia Rising! Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia, 11-13 Dec 2013.

Published by Interpol.

Published by the International Maritime Organization.

Try the following search: "maritime piracy"

Published by the UNODC, 2013. See the chapter entitled Maritime piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

For more information about organised crime in Australia.

Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology

Henderson, W & Bomford, M 2011, Detecting and preventing new incursions of exotic animals in Australia, Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre, Canberra.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
2012, Illegal trade in environmentally sensitive goods, OECD, Paris.

Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Nijman, V 2010, 'An overview of international wildlife trade from Southeast Asia', Biodiversity and Conservation, viewed 2 October 2014.

Try the following searches: "wildlife trade"

Published by the UNODC.

Australia. Department of the Environment.

Wilson-Wilde, L 2010, 'Wildlife crime: a global problem', Forensic science, medicine, and pathology, vol.6, pp.221-222.

This site contains a lot of documents on transnational crime including terrorism, drug and people trafficking and money laundering.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2010, The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment, UNODC, Vienna

Beckert, J & Wehinger, F 2011, 'In the shadow: illegal markets and economic sociology', MPIfG Discussion Paper, vol. 11, no. 9, pp.1-29.

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission 2015, Organised Crime in Australia 2015, The Commission, Canberra.