Published in 1999, this book focuses on organized crime as a worldwide phenomenon that has taken great advantage of enabling technology in banking, communications and transportation to build what is probably the first true 'virtual' corporation in the world. It looks at organized crime as a threat to national and international security ironically stemming, in part, from the collapse of the Soviet empire that provided an already thriving, ruthless and well-organized system of graft, corruption and crime with a new lease of life and also unleashed it on to the world scene. Organized crime is also seen as a system of transnational alliances with the potential to destabilize democratic values and institutions; distort regional, if not worldwide, economies; and subvert the international order by allying itself with terrorist organizations, rogue states and developing countries in search of rapid industrialization and market dominance.
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...outstanding contributions...a splendid source-book which will provide an in-depth study of these forces which constitutes such an international threat today in our vulnerable world. The Coastal Piedmont Leader, USA ...the individual contributions introduce a broad range of literature and source material for current students, scholars and policy-makers with an interest in organized crime. Security Journal '...this book provides a number of benefits to the larger literature addressing transnational organized crime. The chapters provide a wealth of empirical evidence of how transnational organized crime operates in different geographical contexts and of how it interacts with states; possible responses to the problems posed by transnational organized crime are also offered.' International Criminal Justice Review
Part 1: Transnational Organized Crime: The Globalization of Crime
1. The
Evolution of Espionage Networks and the Crisis of International Terrorism and
Global Organized Crime, Joseph L. Albini, R.E. Rogers and Julie Anderson
2.
The European Union and Organized Crime: Fighting a New Enemy with Many
Tentacles, Monica Den Boer
3. Confronting Transnational Crime, Peter B.
Martin Part 2: The Case Studies
4. The Infiltration of Organized Crime in
Emilia-Romagna Region: Possible Interpretations for a New Social Defence,
Augusto Balloni, Roberta Bisi, Andrea Forlivesi, Flavio Mazzucato and
Raffaella Sette
5. Transnational Organized Crime in Spain: Structural Factors
Explaining its Penetration, Carlos Resa-Nestares
6. Global Organized Crime in
Latvia and the Baltics, Andrejs Vilks and Dainis Bergmanis
7. Opening and
Closing the 49th Parallel: Responses to Free Trade and to Trans-Border Crime
in Canada since 1989, Ian Taylor
8. Contested Jurisdiction Border Communities
and Cross-Border Crime - The Case Akwesasne, Ruth Jamieson
9. The Use of the
Shining Path Myth in the Context of the All-Out War Against the
Narco-Guerilla, Rodolfo Mendoza Nakamura
10. Organized Crime in Russia:
Domestic and International Problems, Yakov Gilinskiy
11. Regionalism and
Expansion: The Growth of Organized Crime in East Siberia, Anna L. Repetskaya
12. Alienation and Female Criminality: The Case of Puerto Rico, Zuleika Vidal
Rodriguez Part 3: Public Policy and Interventions
13. Criminal Financial
Investigations: A Strategic and Tactical Approach in the European Dimension,
Petrus C. Van Duyne and Mike Levi
14. Mafia-Type Organizations: The
Restoration of Rights as a Preventive Policy, Maria Luisa Cesoni
15. Repeal
Drug Prohibition and End the Financing of International Crime, Arthur Berney
16. The Criminal Justice System Facing the Challenges of Organized Crime,
Emilio C. Viano.
