Illegal rural enterprise – developing a framework to help identify and investigate shadow infrastructures and illicit criminal networks [PDF]
PolicingPurpose This study builds on the extant research of the authors on illegal rural enterprise (IRE). However, instead of taking a single or micro case approach within specific sections of the farming and food industries we examine the concept holistically from a macro case perspective.
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