Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict

Name: Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict
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ISBN: 9780801476181

ISBN-10: 0801476186

ISBN-13: 9780801476181

Edition: 2011

Authors: Peter Andreas, Kelly M. Greenhill

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"At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia." "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." "Between 600,000 and 800,000 women are trafficked across borders every year." "Money laundering represents as much as 10 percent of global GDP." "Internet child porn is a $20 billion-a-year industry." These are big, attention-grabbing numbers, frequently used in policy debates and media reporting. Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill see only one problem: these numbers are probably false. Their continued use and abuse reflect a much larger and troubling pattern: policymakers and the media…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Kelly M. Greenhill is Assistant Professor of Government at Tufts University and a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She is coeditor of Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict , also from Cornell.



List of Contributors


Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Politics of Numbers




The Politics of Measuring Illicit Flows and Policy-Effectiveness




Trafficking in Numbers: The Social Construction of Human Trafficking Data




Numbers and Certification: Assessing Foreign Compliance in Combating Narcotics and Human Trafficking




The Illusiveness of Counting "Victims" and the Concreteness of Ranking Countries: Trafficking in Persons from Colombia to Japan




Counting the Cost: The Politics of Numbers in Armed Conflict




Research and Repercussions of Death Tolls: The Case of the Bosnian Book of the Dead




The Ambiguous Genocide: The U.S. State Department and the Death Toll in Darfur




Accounting for Absence: The Colombian Paramilitaries in U.S. Policy Debates




(Mis)Measuring Success in Countering the Financing of Terrorism




Conclusion: The Numbers in Politics



Index