Smuggling is the illegal transportation of goods or people, such as out of building into a prison , or cross an international border in volation of applicable laws or other regulation. There are various way to smuggle. These include the participation in illegal trade, such as in the drug trade etc. Smuggling severly harms the economy of a country in multidimensional ways.
“Smuggling was not just a cottage industry, but a national industry.”
Jim Sinclair
Smuggling is an activity which involves the importation or exportation of goods by wrong or unlawful means with objective of evading taxes.
Smuggling is an illegal method of conducting business. The principle causes of smuggling are greed for wealth ignorance and lack of nationalism.
Smuggling occurs when outright avoidance of official customs controls across the borders e.g on lake Victoria , overland on road ,rail and often through the bush ways. This form of smuggling is generally associated with highly marketable goods, goods of high tax value and prohibited or restricted goods.
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The Mexican drug cartels have been smuggling drugs across the boarder of Mexico to the United States of America for decades. The Mexican drug cartels are a drug smuggling criminal organization. In other words they run a narcotic drug business. * In my research, I will be discussing about the money being laundered by the Mexican drug cartels from the U.S. to Mexico. The cartels need to launder their money in order to be able to take their drug money back to their country of Mexico.
the mass flow of illegal liquor from various countries, mainly Canada. “Bootleggers smuggled liquor from oversees and Canada, stole it from government warehouses, and produced their own.” The newly established Federal Prohibition Bureau had only 1,550 agents, and “with 18,700 miles of vast and virtually unpoliceable coastline, it was clearly impossible to prevent immense quantities of liquor from entering the country.” Not even 5% of smuggled liquor was ever actually captured and seized from the hands of the bootleggers. Bootlegging had become a very competitive and lucrative market with the adaptation of prohibition. This illegal underground economy fell into the hands of organized gangs who over powered most of the authorities. Most of these gangsters, secured their businesses by bribing an immense number of city officials. Mainly government agents and people with high political status such as: Mayors, Judges, Police Chiefs, Senators and Governors, found their names on gangsters payroll.
However, there are some potential benefits that are related to this modern-day criminality. Usually in large cities, some human trafficking is voluntary; an individual can sign up to be smuggled into a different country, which allows people to move from overpopulated areas into other areas that will have more resources and accommodations to sustain them. They may find a decent job, become financially stable, and turn into the head provider of their household. Another benefit of trafficking is by providing cheap labor to factories, such as assembly line workers, or to service industries, such as maids, resulting in the reduced cost of production which lowers the prices for consumers worldwide. By producing goods at a lower cost, similar companies will be forced to innovate and improve their industrial practices to stay competitive. It encourages the development of better products and more effective
When many of you hear about individuals being trafficked, the first thing that comes to your mind is sex trafficking or even slavery way back in the day, but many don’t really the laborers are being trafficking everyday all over the world. What is human labor trafficking? According to the UNODC, human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation (UNODC.org, n.p.). It is estimated that
Globalization is the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets that transcend nation-state boundaries(Webster.com). In the world's perspective, many individual view globalization as being salutary and comprehending it as the key to future and world's economic development is ineluctable. It has the capability of transforming any nation's economy to unimaginable heights through global trade, and passes on information and comprehension to individual around the globe. In spite of the fact that this is true, however,globalization engendered the perfect conditions for human trafficking to thrive on the grounds that it made victims
Traffickers are known to tell the people who fall into their hands a high-paying job, a loving relationship, or even new opportunities. What ends up happening is that they are tricked into becoming part of an evil organization that uses physical and psychological violence to control them. Traffickers can work alone also or work as part of a powerful criminal network, with the idea of trafficking people for large sums of money that the victims don’t even really get to collect.
1. Labor Trafficking: Using force, fraud or coercion to recruit, harbor, transport, obtain or employ a person for labor or services in involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery. Victims can be found in domestic situations as nannies or maids, sweatshop factories, janitorial jobs, construction sites, farm work, restaurants, and panhandling. (Williams, 2013)
Sex trafficking is the exploitation of women and children within national or across international borders, for the purposes of
Sex trafficking is a sex act by force where money is involved. Buying or selling someone for sexual acts. Examples are strip clubs, porn, and prostitution. Sex trafficking is todays slavery. Many of those involved in sex trafficking were minors when they first got involved and have been involved for many
The criminal’s communication is faster and easy when they make the trades. For this reason Globalization is a good tool for making enterprise crimes especially when the criminals do drug trafficking. Because the communication between then is not only faster but also the criminals are able to follow the route of the transaction and the profit they get for the business is receive when they finish the job. Globalization also helps the criminals to improve how they can manage future crimes. This is one of the reason the authorities refer to criminals that happen between countries that becomes transnational not matter what the language and the cultures is different. Because the criminals find the strategies to do what they want, an example of this affirmation it can be seen in the drug traffic between countries like Colombia and
Many people know of cartels and drug trafficking, however, they do not realize how serious of a problem it is becoming. Every day there are hundreds of drugs transported into the United States from Latin America, mostly coming from Mexico and Columbia. These cartels are becoming smarter and more creative with their ways of smuggling drugs. They have become ruthless and will do whatever it takes to get their supplies into the country. To better understand how cartels work, you must understand their ways of transporting drugs and how creative they have become with it. Cartels will go as far as using tunnels, boats, planes, vehicles, donkeys and mules to transport all of their drugs.
Globalization is a term used to address the international relation which bonds countries and the markets into trading natural and material resources globally, through vast technological and communication improvements. Due to capital there are numerous illicit networks in the world today. In this paper I will argue that globalization is the cause of most recent illicit networks. Illicit networks are a form of behaviour institution that do not follow the rules or laws of the government. Firstly, the article on globalization by Thomas Erikson will be discussed; where he addresses that globalization is not only part of capital but part of the world, for example the interconnection of communication and technological development promote the global economy into having trade worldwide. Secondly, the world becoming global has its own advantages; globalization brings in many types of interconnected systems, where different forms of illicit networks are made. The currency system in its prime was designed to separate nations not only in their patriot form but in wealth this is another form of inequality in power. Thirdly, illicit networks activist such as illegalized immigrant, a drug dealer and traffickers, are created through their national obstacles that they face. They are created because they have problems in their society, in the countries they live in; it can be from war to any natural or life threatening disaster. Thus, globalization is part of the illicit networks that the world faces today because it is harder to control.
Human trafficking is modern day slavery, that affects everyone and everywhere. Mostly women and children are forced into sex trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage. “Trafficking consists of three core elements: 1) The action of trafficking which means the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons. 2) The means of trafficking which includes threat of or use of force, deception, coercion, abuse of power or position of vulnerability. 3) The purpose of trafficking which is always exploitation.”
The UN creates a distinction between trafficking and smuggling, with smuggling being defined as the voluntary illegal movement of migrants across various borders (Beare, 2015, p.138). However, as Beare (2015) argues “the distinction between the two may not be that great “(p.139). For example if a person opens up a mine and brings in lots of people to work but, takes away their freedom and that person becomes restricted at their destination.
As mentioned earlier money laundering is the process of hiding profits from illegal criminal activities. The major goal of these criminal activities is to make as large of a profit as possible. The money laundering process is very important to these criminals because it allows them to enjoy their profits without revealing the source. When one of these activities generates large profits, the group involved must find a way to disguise the funds without attracting attention towards themselves. The way they accomplish this is by moving the funds to an indiscrete place where they are less likely to attract lots of attention. This allows the group to keep the source of the profits hidden so that it is always available to them. Money laundering is usually done in countries in which they have few or very weak laws ...