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Eski, Y and Buijt, R (2016) Dockers in Drugs: Policing the Illegal Drug Trade and Port Employee Corruption in the Port of Rotterdam. Policing. ISSN 1752-4512
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Abstract
This contribution shall focus on corrupt Port of Rotterdam employees who fulfilled a role in the illegal drug trade by being involved in so-called rip-off cases. By ‘rip-off’ is meant the use of legitimate cargo and containers to hide bags of drugs, whereas the traditional rip-off consists of a buyer being deceived by a drug seller (e.g. purity of drugs is halved). To understand the reasons for their corruption, an in-depth qualitative thematic analysis of official police files took place in 2014. Although law enforcement agencies explain that port employees are solely financially motivated to assist in rip-offs, this study shows that their financial motivations are intertwined with social justifications construed by port employees during their interrogations. Their self-justifications are focused on illegitimately pursuing the legitimate goal of taking care of family, amplified by criminal seductions coming from colleagues. Implications for an evidence-based port policing aimed to police corrupt port employees, and with it, the illegal drug trade, shall be considered as well.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Policing following peer review. The version of record Yarin Eski and Romano Buijt Dockers in Drugs: Policing the Illegal Drug Trade and Port Employee Corruption in the Port of Rotterdam Policing first published online November 24, 2016 doi:10.1093/police/paw044 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1602 Criminology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology K Law > K Law (General) |
| Divisions: | Humanities & Social Science |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2016 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 12:13 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/police/paw044 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4887 |
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