Transnational Crime-Drugs, Human Trafficking, Arms Shipment

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CJHS 560 Transnational Crime-Drugs, Human Trafficking, Arms Shipment is a course elective for the Masters degree in CJHS. This course is an examination of two transnational criminal enterprises, the smuggling of drugs and weapons, and trafficking of persons that draw on similar criminal groups methods, and motives. It covers analytic approaches to studying the topics; the role of organized and other forms of crime to each; how agents operate in specific geographic contexts; and how state and non-state actors are responding to the smuggling and trafficking of persons. The class examines the rise of the phenomenon, the role of conflicts in illicit trade and the actors who facilitate this trade and the policies that are needed to address it.