Ebook: Sex, drugs and body counts: the politics of numbers in global crime and conflict
Author: Andreas Peter
- Tags: International relations--Case studies--Statistics--Political aspects, International relations--Statistics--Political aspects--Case studies, Kriminalstatistik, Policy sciences--Case studies--Statistical methods, Policy sciences--Statistical methods--Case studies, Politik, Statistical methods--Political aspects--Case studies, Statistics--Case studies--Political aspects, Statistics--Political aspects, Statistics--Political aspects--Case studies, Transnational crime--Case studies--Statistics--Political aspect
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- City: Ithaca;NY
- Language: English
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Introduction : the politics of numbers / Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill -- The politics of measuring illicit flows and policy effectiveness / Peter Andreas -- Trafficking in numbers : the social construction of human trafficking data / David A. Feingold -- Numbers and certification : assessing foreign compliance in combating narcotics and human trafficking / H. Richard Friman -- The illusiveness of counting "victims" and the concreteness of ranking countries : trafficking in persons from Colombia to Japan / Kay B. Warren -- Counting the cost : the politics of numbers in armed conflict / Kelly M. Greenhill -- Research and repercussions of death tolls : the case of the Bosnian book of the dead / Lara J. Nettelfield -- The ambiguous genocide : the U.S. State Department and the death toll in Darfur / John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond -- Accounting for absence : the Colombian paramilitaries in U.S. policy debates / Winifred Tate -- (Mis)measuring success in countering the financing of terrorism / Sue E. Eckert and Thomas J. Biersteker -- Conclusion : the numbers in politics / Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill.