"Shifting the stuff wasn't any bother": Illicit enterprise, tobacco bootlegging and deconstructing the British government's cigarette smuggling discourse

Trends in Organized Crime

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 413-434

  L'Hoiry, Xavier Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cigarette bootlegging; Illicit enterprise; Illicit illegal entrepreneur; Organised crime; Tobacco smuggling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892992363     PISSN: 10844791     EISSN: 19364830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12117-013-9188-2     Document Type: Article

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