It can be hard to understand why people enter the world of crime. If you work for a living, have a family, and make a positive contribution to society, to think that someone would market illegal products like fentanyl or ghost guns probably makes you cringe in disgust.
Criminologists,
sociologists, and other academics make attempts to try to explain why people commit
crime.
A National
Geographic program that tries to give insight into the criminal world of trafficking
illegal products and services is Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller. van
Zeller, a Peabody Award winning journalist, goes into the field to show how illegal
products are moved to their markets. In the process, her episodes show
interviews with people who do the trafficking as well as interviews with law
enforcement officers who try to intercept the contraband. van Zeller has
covered drug trafficking, including cocaine, fentanyl, steroids, meth, marijuana,
LSD, MDMA, as well as gun trafficking, counterfeiting, stolen cars, oil, and
black-market body organs. She also has covered a variety of scams and scammers.
Her gutsy
interviews have included teenagers moving drugs through the jungles of South
America and local gang leaders who direct the production, movement, and
marketing of drugs, cars, guns, and other contraband. The interviewed, often
wearing a mask, reveal their humanity, and sometimes their inhumanity.
Trafficked
with Mariana van Zeller gives a good insight into criminal organizations that produce
and move illegal products for sale to people who want to buy them. You can find
the program on the National Geographic Channel. If your cable provider does not
carry the channel, you can see past episodes at:
National
Geographic Channel:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/trafficked-with-mariana-van-zeller
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_van_Zeller
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