Sex, drugs, and body counts : the politics of numbers in global crime and conflict /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Andreas, Peter, 1965-, Greenhill, Kelly M., 1970-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Statistics > Political aspects > Case studies. Transnational crime > Statistics > Political aspects > Case studies. International relations > Statistics > Political aspects > Case studies. Policy sciences > Statistical methods > Case studies.

Table of Contents:

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.