Smugglers : cooperation, organization and adaptability of smuggling networks in the Southern Netherlands, 1797-1810

Abstract: While historiography has mostly focused on the causes of smuggling, the factors explaining its persistency have remained largely underexposed. Scholars have usually attributed the inability to stop smuggling to the inefficiency or inadequacy of authorities. Even though this is true to some extent, historians have rarely looked at this from the perspective of smugglers. By applying new perspectives from criminology and the history of crime, this research has shown that the organization and adaptability of smuggling networks was partly responsible for the resilience of smuggling. Combi... Mehr ...