Wages of Crime by R.T. Naylor is a book covering the underside of society where Naylor tries to provide readers the various ways people commit crime. From prostitution to prohibition, Naylor includes the details of which characters come and commit illegal actions for the sake of financial gain and power. The book also includes other activities from recreational drugs and gambling and details supply-side controls act to increase profits as well as promote production. Best-case scenarios involve a few intermediaries removed from business. But as Naylor notes, the black market always persisted thanks to consistent demand. In future instances a failure to thwart crime serves as a foundation for increasing police budgets, the expansion of law enforcement powers, and the great outpouring of money into the insatiable budget of the prison-industrial complex. This is simply just the introduction of the book, but allows the reader to under that Naylor is a specialist in the study of black markets, international financial crime, and smuggling. Wages of Crime takes the reader down the rabbit hole of a shadowy underworld filled with modern criminal businesses like gold smuggling, arms trafficking, terrorist financing, and money laundering. By dissecting the schemes by which illegal business owners and traders disguise...

The first assumption is the very idea that great crime cartels are goose-stepping across the world stage. The second assumption is that something called "Globalization" and the accompanying spread of modern communications and transportation technology have been a godsend to international crime "cartels," which can use the technology to commit more and worse crimes while secreting the spoils (and themselves when necessary) in faraway places. And finally, the third assumption, the sums generated by international criminals are sufficient to threaten the very foundations of the world economic order.
The first assumption essentially means that great crime cartels are highly organized. They are so organized, that they even manage to have people working within the government to help them from being convicted of crimes. Some organized criminals are so deeply embedded into the political fabric of governments that they can control how government rules over the public. A good example of this…