Course businesses, and selfsociety, but Civil Society but the ones that really took advantage, early authors of many opportunities created by brokennizations their criminals and that led me to start taking a deeper look at the way in which criminal networks became global and how nigerian criminal organizations were working in thailand and russians were operating in manhattan, and how spanish organizations were operating colombia and vice versa. When i started looking at that, i discovered that there was a lot of anxiety and opinion but wasnt really much research. Except Louise Shelleys pioneering work. She started working on this subject when no one was paying attention it to. Her first book is in the early 1980s, crime and modernization, and after that she has had a string of books that have really framed the conversation. Its really impossible to have a conversation, a research, with what is happening to global crime and how intertwined with governments and terrorists and business, a
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