Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts : : The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict / / ed. by Peter Andreas, Kelly M. Greenhill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Andreas, Peter,; Biersteker, Thomas J.,; Eckert, Sue E.,; Feingold, David A.,; Friman, H. Richard,; Greenhill, Kelly M.,; Hagan, John,; Nettelfield, Lara J.,; Rymond-Richmond, Wenona,; Tate, Winifred,; Warren, Kay B,; Warren, Kay B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Andreas, Peter,; Greenhill, Kelly M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 7 charts/graphs, 10 tables

Big, attention-grabbing numbers are frequently used in policy debates and media reporting: "At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia." "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1.Introduction: the politics of numbers
• 2.The Politics of Measuring Illicit Flows and Policy Effectiveness
• 3.Trafficking in Numbers: the social construction of human trafficking data
• 4. Numbers and Certification: assessing foreign compliance in combating narcotics and human trafficking
• 5. The Illusiveness of Counting "Victims" and the Concreteness of Ranking Countries: trafficking in persons from Colombia to Japan
• 6. Counting the Cost: the politics of numbers in armed conflict
• 7. Research and Repercussions of Death Tolls: the case of the Bosnian book of the dead
• 8. The Ambiguous Genocide: the U.S. state department and the death toll in Darfur
• 9. Accounting for Absence: the Colombian paramilitaries in U.S. policy debates
• 10. (Mis)Measuring Success in Countering the Financing of Terrorism
• 11. Conclusion: the numbers in politics
• Index