What are the factors that help some of the illegal economies to operate? You can focus on one of the following illegal economies: illegal drug trade on dark web, illegal mining industry, illegal dumping of hazardous waste, etc.
Main expectations from this essay:
In answering the questions please always remember that you need to be focused on illegal practices within the economic sector, as it is the focus of the module. Especially be careful and do not get into other aspects of criminality which are not necessarily related to illegal economies. For instance, if you chose state illegality question be careful in selecting your resources and do not get into the discussion of genocide or other types of state criminality that do not focus on illegal economic activities.
You should use 10 academic sources.
Do not just repeat all the arguments that were developed in the lecture.
Possible structure of the essay
Introduction
Background and discussion of main concepts and how they relate to each other (in case there are two or three more concepts)
Argument 1 – Your answer to the main question
Argument 2- Your answer to the main question
Argument 3 – Your answer to the main question
Argument 4 – Only if you have space and enough information.
Conclusion
