Rate My Professor Anthea McCarthy-Jones

Dr. McCarthy-Jones's research specializations include politics and policymaking in developing nations, Venezuelan politics, illicit business, criminal networks, brokers in criminal networks, drug trafficking in the Pacific, management and governance in developing nations, Latin American politics, and social network analysis. Key publications encompass the book Illicit Business (Routledge, 2024, co-authored with Mark Turner), with chapters such as 'A History of Illicit Business', 'Digital Illicit Business', 'Illicit Business and the Environment', 'Kidnapping and Human Trafficking', 'State-Led Illicit Business', 'The Arms Trafficking Business', and 'The Drug Trafficking Business'. Prominent journal articles include 'Dark Networks, Transnational Crime and Security: The Critical Role of Brokers' (Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2024, with M. Turner), 'The Anti-illicit Activity Regime of the Multilateral Development Banks: Criminal Acts or Prohibited Practices?' (Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2024, with A.R. Bazbauers), 'What is a “Mafia State” and how is one created?' (Policy Studies, 2022, with M. Turner), 'Mapping Connections: A Dark Network Analysis of Neojihadism in Australia' (Terrorism and Political Violence, 2021, with M. Kelly), 'From hierarchies to networks: The organizational evolution of the international drug trade' (International Journal of Law Crime and Justice, 2020, with C. Doyle and M. Turner), and 'Brokering transnational networks: emerging connections between organised crime groups in the Pacific and Indian Oceans' (Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 2018).