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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Global Crime in Context: Defining and Measuring Global Crime -- What Do We Mean When We Say Global Crime? -- Crime and Culture -- Crime and Globalization -- Gender and Family -- Education -- Race and Ethnicity -- Religion -- Globalization and Crime in the Future -- Measuring Global Crime -- Methods of Measuring Crime -- Official Statistics -- Self-Report Studies -- Victimization Surveys -- 2 Comparative and Transnational Crime -- Comparative Crime -- Homicide -- Sexual Assault -- Transnational Crime -- Black Markets -- Fraud -- Money Laundering -- Global Crime in Context -- 3 Human Trafficking -- Introduction -- Human Trafficking: Definitions, History, and Scope -- Definitions -- The Difference between Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling -- Critiques of the Definition of Human Trafficking -- History -- Scope -- Starting Points -- Pushes and Pulls -- Globalization and Economics -- Countries of Origination -- The Trafficked and the Traffickers -- People Who Are Trafficked -- Children -- Women -- Men -- Types of Exploitation -- Forced Non-Sexual Labor -- Forced Sexual Labor -- The Traffickers -- On the Way -- The Destination -- The Response to Human Trafficking -- 4 Drug Trafficking -- Drug Trafficking -- Heroin -- The Golden Crescent -- The Golden Triangle -- Latin America -- Cocaine -- The Trafficking of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants -- Methamphetamine -- Other Amphetamine-Type Stimulants -- Cannabis -- Summary -- 5 Weapons Trafficking -- State-Sponsored Weapons Sales/Trafficking -- Summary -- 6 Terrorism -- What Is Terrorism? -- Terrorism and Crime -- Terrorist Groups -- Irish Republican Army (IRA) -- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam -- Hamas -- Hezbollah