UID:
edocfu_9959089997102883
Umfang:
1 online resource :
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7 charts/graphs, 10 tables
ISBN:
9780801458309
Inhalt:
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. occupation of Iraq." "Between 600,000 and 800,000 women are trafficked across borders every year." "Money laundering represents as much as 10 percent of global GDP." "Internet child porn is a
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Contributors /
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Acknowledgments --
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1.Introduction: the politics of numbers /
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2.The Politics of Measuring Illicit Flows and Policy Effectiveness /
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3.Trafficking in Numbers: the social construction of human trafficking data /
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4. Numbers and Certification: assessing foreign compliance in combating narcotics and human trafficking /
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5. The Illusiveness of Counting "Victims" and the Concreteness of Ranking Countries: trafficking in persons from Colombia to Japan /
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6. Counting the Cost: the politics of numbers in armed conflict /
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7. Research and Repercussions of Death Tolls: the case of the Bosnian book of the dead /
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8. The Ambiguous Genocide: the U.S. state department and the death toll in Darfur /
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9. Accounting for Absence: the Colombian paramilitaries in U.S. policy debates /
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10. (Mis)Measuring Success in Countering the Financing of Terrorism /
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11. Conclusion: the numbers in politics /
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Index
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.7591/9780801458309
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801458309
