Build it, and they will come: Narcotics and money laundering in the Leeward Islands

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 397-420

  Block, Alan A ^a   Griffin, Sean Patrick ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0141598608     PISSN: 10439862     EISSN: 15525406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043986299015004005     Document Type: Article

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