01661nam a22001097a 4500100002400000245009500024260004500119300000900164520127200173650003301445856007301478  aMontgomery, Aaron G  aReview of Sex, Drugs and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict  aNew YorkbCornell University Pressc2010  a10p.  aThe ten scholarly papers in Sex, Drugs and Body Counts explore the generation and propagation of numbers that drive policy decisions in the U.S. government regarding human trafficking, drug trade, and armed conflict (including the war on terror). Each of these papers, written by different authors, provides an illuminating insight into how some of the numbers we hear or read in the news are derived. While the general message of the papers tends to be depressing, namely that the numbers driving U.S. policy vary from being slightly suspect to clearly fabricated, the book does provide positive examples of how accurate numbers can be obtained and how the numbers that are being used can be interpreted. As a teaching resource, the book provides instructors an opportunity to deepen their understanding of how quantitative data are used in U.S. policy, allowing them to explore these issues in class. Individual papers from the book could be used in a general education course (either in mathematics or in a field related to the topics) as a way to introduce students to reading quantitatively dense material. In a course more focused on the topics of the book and with a more quantitatively literate audience, the entire book could probably be assigned as reading.  aDrug ,War ,Human trafficking  uhttp://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/that document riye riye.pdf