Research Guides: U.S. Border Security: Books

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Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide by Peter Andreas
Crime and Criminal Behavior by William J. Chambliss (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011
Includes chapters on Terrorism and Extremism as well as Undocumented Immigrants.
Mexico-U.S. Migration Management: A Binational Approach by Agustín Escobar Latapí; Susan Forbes Martin
Publication Date: 2008
Terrorists in Our Midst : Combating Foreign-Affinity Terrorism in America by Alexander, Yonah

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Dark Logic: Transnational Criminal Tactics and Global Security by Mandel, Robert
Call Number: HV6252 .M36 2011
ISBN: 0804769923
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Fence : National security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration Along the U.S.-Mexico Border by Maril, Robert Lee.
Call Number: JV6565 .M37 2011
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Global Outlaws : Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World by Nordstrom, Carolyn, 1953-
Call Number: HV6252 .N67 2007
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields by Bowden, Charles
Call Number: HV5840.M42 C5826 2010
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Narcos Over the Border: Gangs, Cartels and Mercenaries by Bunker, Robert J
Call Number: HV5840.M4 N373 2011
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Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy by Herman, Susan
Call Number: KF9430 .H47 2011
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Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars : Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security by Payan, Tony
Call Number: HV5831.M46 T49 2006
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