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Key: ^* = undergraduate student; ⁺ = graduate student; ^% = early career academic; ^‡ = corresponding author

Journal Articles

Azizi, Hamid,⁺ and R. V. Gundur.^‡ 2025. The Taliban’s Drug Trade Revenue and Taxation System: What the Experts Know. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. doi: 10.1080/1057610X.2025.2502924.

Berry, Mark,^% Mike Salinas, and R. V. Gundur.^‡ 2026. Financial Risk Management Strategies of Small to Medium Illicit Drug Enterprises: Considering Low-level Money Laundering. Trends in Organized Crime. 29:155–177. doi: 10.1007/s12117-023-09501-5.

Giommoni, Luca,^‡ R. V. Gundur and Eric Cheekes.^* 2020. International drug trafficking: past, present, and prospective trends. In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.470.

Giommoni, Luca,^‡ and R. V. Gundur. 2018. An analysis of the United Kingdom’s cannabis market using crowdsourced data. Global Crime, 19(2). doi: 10.1080/17440572.2018.1460071.

Gundur, R. V. 2020. Finding the Sweet Spot: Optimizing criminal careers within the context of illicit enterprise. Deviant Behavior, 41(3), 378-397. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2019.1565851.

Gundur, R. V. 2020. Negotiating Violence and Protection in Prison and on the Outside: The organizational evolution of the transnational prison gang Barrio Azteca. International Criminal Justice Review, 30(1), 30-60. doi: 10.1177/1057567719836466.

Gundur, R. V. 2020. Prison Gangs. In H. N. Ponell (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.397.

Gundur, R. V. 2019. Settings Matter: Examining protection’s influence on the illicit drug trade in convergence settings in the Paso del Norte metropolitan area. Crime, Law and Social Change, 72, 229-360. doi: 10.1007/s10611-019-09810-3.

Gundur, R. V. 2018. The Changing Social Organization of Prison Protection Markets: When prisoners choose to organize horizontally rather than vertically. Trends in Organized Crime. doi: 10.1007/s12117-018-9332-0 [Open Access].

Gundur, R. V., and Rebecca Trammell 2022. When prison gangs become organized crime: Studying protection arrangements and their consequences. Trends in Organized Crime. doi: 10.1007/s12117-022-09469-8.

Levi, Michael,^‡ Rajeev Gundur, Martin Innes, and Peter Reuter. 2014. “Impact économique, financier et social du crime organisé dans l’Union européenne.” Sécurité et Stratégie. 16. doi: 10.3917/sestr.016.0084.

Purvis, W. Ernest,⁺ and R. V. Gundur.^‡ 2019. The drug trade at a glance. In Research Handbook on Transnational Crime, edited by Valsamis Mitsilegas, Saskia Hufnagel and Anton Moiseienko. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781784719449.

Shaw, April,^% and R. V. Gundur.^‡ 2026. “‘Addiction Never Seems to Be Historic’: How Older Women in Recovery from Illicit Drug Use Experience Stigma Within Their Practitioner-Patient Communications.” Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. doi: 10.1080/09687637.2026.2647881.

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Book Chapters

Giommoni, Luca, R. V. Gundur, and Erik Cheekes.⁺ 2020. “International Drug Trafficking: Past, Present, and Prospective Trends.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice edited by Henry N. Ponell. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.470

Gundur, R. V. 2020. “Prison Gangs.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice edited by Henry N. Ponell. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.397

Purvis, W. E.⁺ and R. V. Gundur. 2019. “The drug trade at a glance.” In Research Handbook on Transnational Crime. Edward Elgar Publishing. 10.4337/9781784719449