Drug Muled
Title | Drug Muled PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Joseph |
Publisher | Jacana Media |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1920601201 |
"I realise what they did to me in there. How they turned me into a savage, only half human, bathing in a trough and eating food fit for animals and locking me in a cage every night." ? It's 1994. South Africa is on the brink of freedom. On the verge of a big break in modelling, Miss SA finalist, 21-year-old Vanessa Goosen is caught up in every traveller's nightmare. Duped into carrying books with 1.7 kilograms of heroin hidden in them, Goosen is arrested and tried on drug trafficking charges. Deaf to her pleas of innocence, the Thai courts sentence Goosen to death. On appeal, her sentence is commuted to life, to be served in Bangkok's notorious Lard Yao prison. Pregnant, terrified and desperately alone, Goosen begins a harrowing 16-year journey behind bars... -- Page 4 of cover.
Drug Mules
Title | Drug Mules PDF eBook |
Author | J. Fleetwood |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 207 |
Release | 2014-06-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137271906 |
Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Prize, 2015 Fleetwood explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived experiences of women as drug mules. Offering theoretical insights from gender theory and transnational criminology, Fleetwood argues that women's participation in the drugs trade cannot be adequately understood through the lenses of either victimization or agency.
Drug Mules
Title | Drug Mules PDF eBook |
Author | J. Fleetwood |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 207 |
Release | 2014-06-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137271906 |
Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Prize, 2015 Fleetwood explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived experiences of women as drug mules. Offering theoretical insights from gender theory and transnational criminology, Fleetwood argues that women's participation in the drugs trade cannot be adequately understood through the lenses of either victimization or agency.
Women Drug Traffickers
Title | Women Drug Traffickers PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Carey |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 2014-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826351999 |
In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers—work rarely acknowledged. Elaine Carey’s study of women in the drug trade offers a new understanding of this intriguing subject, from women drug smugglers in the early twentieth century to the cartel queens who make news today. Using international diplomatic documents, trial transcripts, medical and public welfare studies, correspondence between drug czars, and prison and hospital records, the author’s research shows that history can be as gripping as a thriller.
Dead Cows for Piranhas
Title | Dead Cows for Piranhas PDF eBook |
Author | Hazel Friedman |
Publisher | Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2014-10-30 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1868425347 |
A high-octane journey into the brutal underworld of the South African and transnational drug trade. Journalist Hazel Friedman was on assignment in Thailand to document the stories of the increasing number of South Africans convicted as drug mules when she made a horrifying discovery. Many of the drug traffickers are in fact decoys. These individuals find themselves coerced or deceived into drug running. The 'dead cows' are set up to be arrested, thereby allowing professional mules carrying much larger quantities of drugs to slip past undetected. Through the heartbreaking accounts of the prisoners, Friedman became convinced that the decoys should not be viewed as perpetrators of narcotics trafficking. Her own high-risk investigations – including an attempt to get recruited as a drug mule (filmed with a secret camera), as well as trying to track down the middlemen – appeared to confirm this. She concluded that many drug mules are victims of human trafficking – as pawns readily sacrificed in a profit-driven war waged by global drug barons.
Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom
Title | Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Alfredo Molano |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780231129145 |
Alfred Molano reveals the lives of the couriers who transport drugs from Colombia into the United States and Europe. Colombians from many different backgrounds tell the story of how they became involved in smuggling, forced to find a way out of poverty in the middle of an unending civil war.
Mule
Title | Mule PDF eBook |
Author | C. A. Heifner |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2012-07-17 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 0762787104 |
Meet Chris Heifner, overachieving drug runner for a Mexican marijuana cartel. But he wasn’t always. This one-time econ student from Texas—broke, deep in debt, and facing eviction with a growing family to support—yielded to the temptation that he had resisted countless times before and went to work for his best friend from college, Jake Andes. But it wasn’t exactly a Career Day kind of job. Andes was a big-time dealer, captaining a $25-million-a-year empire. Heifner became a mule, running multi-hundred-pound loads from Juárez around the country. After digging himself out of his financial hole, Heifner contemplated going clean. But the money and the lifestyle had hooked him, so he kept moving loads. He was so good that Andes was grooming him to become his second-in-command. And then Heifner got busted with $300,000 worth of dope in a rental car, and his world came crashing down. After bailing out of jail, Heifner went home for a much-needed shower. He emerged to find Andes and a hit man hired to kill him and his family should he decide to narc. Heifner realized that he had only one option: to flip and become an informant for the DEA. That’s when life got really dangerous.