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oapen-20.500.12657-758982024-03-28T09:35:25Z Arms Trafficking Ege, Gian Schwarzenegger, Christian Stempkowski, Monika transnational organised crime;Cross-border organized crime;Grenzüberschreitende Organisierte Kriminalität;arms industry;Waffenindustrie Trafficking in arms and weapons material is, perhaps, one of the most notorious forms of organised crime. Fuelled by both the movie industry as well as real world examples, criminal organisations are widely believed to engage in the trafficking of firearms and weapons material, including nuclear material. This illicit trade is further facilitated by corruption and other forms of collusion with government entities as well as by links between the criminal elements and the arms industry. As part of a joint teaching programme on transnational organised crime, students from the Universities of Queensland, Vienna and Zurich researched the topic of arms trafficking in a year-long course. Some of their academic papers are compiled in this volume, addressing topics ranging from international and national legal frameworks to levels and characteristics of this phenomenon in selected places, and enforcement and industry measures adopted to prevent and suppress this illicit trade. 2023-08-29T13:17:16Z 2023-08-29T13:17:16Z 2022 book 9783941159570 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75898 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International 978-3-941159-57-0.PDF 978-3-941159-57-0.epub Carl Grossmann Verlag 10.24921/2022.94115958 10.24921/2022.94115958 17bcfe22-3dfb-4fa9-baa3-ad2dce71b76c 9783941159570 300 Berlin open access
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Trafficking in arms and weapons material is, perhaps, one of the most notorious forms of organised crime. Fuelled by both the movie industry as well as real world examples, criminal organisations are widely believed to engage in the trafficking of firearms and weapons material, including nuclear material. This illicit trade is further facilitated by corruption and other forms of collusion with government entities as well as by links between the criminal elements and the arms industry.
As part of a joint teaching programme on transnational organised crime, students from the Universities of Queensland, Vienna and Zurich researched the topic of arms trafficking in a year-long course. Some of their academic papers are compiled in this volume, addressing topics ranging from international and national legal frameworks to levels and characteristics of this phenomenon in selected places, and enforcement and industry measures adopted to prevent and suppress this illicit trade.
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