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Anthropology and economics: Undeceptions by John Dickson https://undeceptions.com/podcast/the-anthropologists/

Amnesty International – gun violence

https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/arms-control/gun-violence

Pew Research https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/#:~:text=On%20a%20per%20capita%20basis,16.3%20per%20100%2C000%20in%201974.

Statistics Canada. Table 35-10-0059-01  Police services expenditures, by detailed expenditures (x 1,000) DOI: https://doi.org/10.25318/3510005901-eng

National Geographic ancient copper fraud

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/ea-nasir-copper-merchant-ur

BBC news – Kobe Steel.

http://ww.bbc.com/news/business-41607008

The Economist

Scam Inc.

(article and podcast both behind paywall)

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/06/the-vast-and-sophisticated-global-enterprise-that-is-scam-inc

 

https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc

Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04nx1vnw17o

Jerrod Brown, Jeffrey Long-McGie, Judge Anthony Wartnik, Pamela Oberoi, Janina Wresh,

Erv Weinkauf, Gennae Falconer, & Alyse Kerr Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in the Criminal Justice System: A Review. JOURNAL OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, VOLUME 3, NUMBER 6

Lautensach, A., & Lautensach, S. (Eds.)  2020 Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities (2nd edition) chapter 13. Transnational Crime John Wilson

 

The US econ in 2025 is est. to be about                     30.3 trillion $

The Chinese Econ                                                       19.5 trillion

Germany                                                                     5 Trillion

The 2017 Global Financial Integrity report suggested that just for transnational crime

https://gfintegrity.org/report/transnational-crime-and-the-developing-world/

 

Transnational Crime

Estimated Annual Value (US$)

Counterfeiting

$923 billion to $1.13 trillion

Drug Trafficking

$426 billion to $652 billion

Illegal Logging

$52 billion to $157 billion

Human Trafficking

$150.2 billion

Illegal Mining

$12 billion to $48 billion

IUU Fishing

$15.5 billion to $36.4 billion

Illegal Wildlife Trade

$5 billion to $23 billion

Crude Oil Theft

$5.2 billion to $11.9 billion

Small Arms & Light Weapons Trafficking

$1.7 billion to $3.5 billion

Organ Trafficking

$840 million to $1.7 billion

Total

$1.6 trillion to $2.2 trillion

 

That was 2017.

 

 

Now there was one missing from that list.

Bloomberg reported in 2024 that cyber crime alone was probably worth 9.5 Trillion making it the 3rd largest economy on the planet.

https://sponsored.bloomberg.com/quicksight/check-point/the-worlds-third-largest-economy-has-bad-intentions-and-its-only-getting-bigger

Facebook and scam ads - Andrew Forrest

https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/1068185/us-judge-orders-meta-to-explain-230-000-scam-ads-using-andrew-forrest-s-image-1068185.html

 

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