00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.815166 CaOODSP 20221107141942 cr ||||||||||| 160429s2016 oncd ob f000 0 eng d 978-0-660-05186-4 CaOODSP eng n-cn--- PS18-32/2-2016E-PDF Deportation, circular migration and organized crime [electronic resource] : Honduras case study / by Geoff Burt … [et al.]. [Ottawa] : Public Safety Canada, c2016. 33 p. : fig., tables Issued also in French under title: Expulsion, migration circulaire et crime organise, étude de cas, Honduras. "Research report: 2016-R006." Includes bibliographical references. This research report examines the impact of criminal deportation to Honduras on public safety in Canada. It focuses on two forms of transnational organized crime that provide potential, though distinct, connections between the two countries: the youth gangs known as the maras, and the more sophisticated transnational organized crime networks that oversee the hemispheric drug trade. In neither case does the evidence reveal direct links between criminal activity in Honduras and criminality in Canada. While criminal deportees from Canada may join local mara factions, they are unlikely to be recruited by the transnational networks that move drugs from South America into Canada. The relatively small numbers of criminal deportees from Canada, and the difficulty of returning once deported, further impede the development of such threats. As a result, the direct threat to Canadian public safety posed by offenders who have been deported to Honduras is minimal. The report additionally examines the pervasive violence and weak institutional context to which deportees return. The security and justice sectors of the Honduran government are clearly overwhelmed by the violent criminality afflicting the country, and suffer from serious corruption and dysfunction. Given the lack of targeted reintegration programs for criminal returnees, deportation from Canada and the United States likely exacerbates the country’s insecurity. The report concludes with a number of possible policy recommendations by which Canada can reduce the harm that criminal deportation poses to Honduras, and strengthen state institutions so that they can prevent the presently insignificant threats posed to Canada by Honduran crime from growing in the future. gccst Deportation gccst Organized crime Burt, Geoff. Canada. Public Safety Canada. Expulsion, migration circulaire et crime organisé (CaOODSP)9.815169 PDF 466 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/sp-ps/PS18-32-2-2016-eng.pdf