Sex, drugs, and body counts
Subtitle: the politics of numbers in global crime and conflict
By: edited by Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill.
Contributors: Andreas, Peter, 1965-; Greenhill, Kelly M., 1970-
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801448614; 9780801476181
Subjects: Statistics -- Political aspects -- Case studies; Statistical methods -- Political aspects -- Case studies; Transnational crime -- Statistics -- Political aspects -- Case studies; International relations -- Statistics -- Political aspects -- Case studies; Policy sciences -- Statistical methods -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the politics of numbers / Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill; title: The politics of measuring illicit flows and policy effectiveness / Peter Andreas; title: Trafficking in numbers : the social construction of human trafficking data / David A. Feingold; title: Numbers and certification : assessing foreign compliance in combating narcotics and human trafficking / H. Richard Friman; title: The illusiveness of counting "victims" and the concreteness of ranking countries : trafficking in persons from Colombia to Japan / Kay B. Warren; title: Counting the cost : the politics of numbers in armed conflict / Kelly M. Greenhill; title: Research and repercussions of death tolls : the case of the Bosnian book of the dead / Lara J. Nettelfield; title: The ambiguous genocide : the U.S. State Department and the death toll in Darfur / John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond; title: Accounting for absence : the Colombian paramilitaries in U.S. policy debates / Winifred Tate; title: (Mis)measuring success in countering the financing of terrorism / Sue E. Eckert and Thomas J. Biersteker; title: Conclusion : the numbers in politics / Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill.