Editing Smuggling (section)

{{Short description|Illegal movement of goods or people}}
{{Redirect2|Smuggler|Traffick|other uses|Smuggler (disambiguation)|and|Traffik (disambiguation)}} 
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'''Smuggling''' is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a [[prison]], or across an international [[border]], in violation of applicable [[law]]s or other regulations. More broadly, social scientists define smuggling as the purposeful movement across a border in contravention to the relevant legal frameworks.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Max Gallien and Florian Weigand |title=The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling |year=2021 |publisher=Routledge |location=London and New York |isbn=9780367489533 |page=2 |doi=10.4324/9781003043645 |s2cid=245768606 |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043645}}</ref>

There are various motivations to smuggle. These include the participation in illegal trade, such as in the [[Illegal drug trade|drug trade]], [[illegal weapons trade]], [[prostitution]], [[human trafficking]], [[kidnapping]], [[Theft|heist]]s, [[chop shop]]s, [[illegal immigration]] or [[illegal emigration]], [[Tax avoidance and tax evasion|tax evasion]], [[import restrictions]], [[export restrictions]], providing [[contraband]] to prison inmates, or the [[theft]] of the items being smuggled.

Smuggling is a common theme in literature, from [[Bizet]]'s opera ''[[Carmen (opera)|Carmen]]'' to the [[James Bond]] spy books (and later films) ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (novel)|Diamonds Are Forever]]'' and ''[[Goldfinger (novel)|Goldfinger]]''.