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War Zone Acapulco: Urban Drug Trafficking in the Americas

Contexto Internacional, 2017
Acapulco epitomises the (in)security of urban zones in the Americas whose geographical, political and economic divisions are exacerbated by the political economy and geopolitics of drug trafficking, as well as by militarised attempts to fight it. Various
Thiago Rodrigues, Mariana Kalil, Roberto Zepeda, Jonathan D Rosen   +3 more
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The Relation of Drug Trafficking Fears and Cultural Identity to Attitudes Toward Mexican Immigrants in Five South Texas Communities. [PDF]

J Borderl Stud, 2016
Ramirez M, Argueta NL, Castro Y, Perez R, Dawson DB.   +4 more
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Detection of Illicit Drug Trafficking Events on Instagram: A Deep Multimodal Multilabel Learning Approach [PDF]

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2021
Social media such as Instagram and Twitter have become important platforms for marketing and selling illicit drugs. Detection of online illicit drug trafficking has become critical to combat the online trade of illicit drugs.
Chuanbo Hu, Minglei Yin, Bin Liu, Xin Li, Yanfang Ye   +4 more
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Predicting accidental drug overdose as the cause of fatality in near real-time using the Suspected Potential Overdose Tracker (SPOT): public health implications

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Effective responses to the worsening drug overdose epidemic require accurate and timely drug overdose surveillance data. The objectives of this paper are to describe the development, functionality, and accuracy of the Suspected Potential ...
Karli R. Hochstatter, Sonal Rastogi, Kathryn Klein, Cameron Tait-Ozer, Nabila El-Bassel, Jason Graham   +5 more
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DRUG TRAFFICKING FROM THAILAND’S GOLDEN TRIANGLE REGION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON MALAYSIA’S POLITICAL SECURITY

Journal of International Studies, 2023
Organized crime syndicates are fuelling the dangerous and profitable world of drug trafficking making Southeast Asia suffered the consequences for centuries.
MOHAMAD YASID AMER FAWWAZ
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COUNTERING DRUG TRAFFICKING: ANALYSIS OF PRACTICES AND WAYS TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY [PDF]

Северо-Кавказский юридический вестник, 2020
The article analyzes trends in the development of drug abuse in Russia, as well as problematic issues of law enforcement practice for crimes related to drug trafficking.
Алтухов Сергей Анатольевич, Ширяев Александр Сергеевич   +1 more
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Interdicting International Drug Trafficking: a Network Approach for Coordinated and Targeted Interventions

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 2021
There is a relative dearth of literature on both the effects of cross-border interdictions and the impact of different types of interventions on international drug trafficking.
Luca Giommoni, G. Berlusconi, Alberto Aziani   +2 more
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Behavioral Changes among Street Level Drug Trafficking Organizations and the Fluctuation in Drug Prices Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic

American Journal of Qualitative Research, 2021
This article focused on behavioral changes in street-level drug trafficking organizations and drug price fluctuations at the retail level during the COVID-19 in Germany, specifically in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Umit Namli
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High rates of incarceration due to drug trafficking in the last decade in southern Brazil

Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 2020
Introduction Drug-related crimes, especially drug trafficking, account for a large part of incarcerations not only in Brazil, but also worldwide. It is not clear whether the change in the drug law has contributed to the increase in the number of drug ...
Felipe Ornell, Bárbara S. Stock, Juliana N. Scherer, Rafaela Ornell, Karina P. Ligabue, Joana C. M. Narvaez, Carla Dalbosco, Renata M. Dotta, Lisieux B. Telles, Flavio Pechansky, Lisia von Diemen, Felix H. P. Kessler   +11 more
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EVOLUȚIA TRAFICULUI DE DROGURI DE MARE RISC DIN ROMÂNIA, ÎN PERIOADA 2016 – 2022 [PDF]

Intelligence și Cultura de Securitate, 2023
High-risk drug trafficking is a growing threat to Romania's national security. Organized crime has been exceedingly resilient to anti-drug policies. Despite the efforts and initiatives of national and international institutions to prevent illicit drug ...
Adrian Laurențiu PANĂ
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