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Imprint:Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002.
©2002
Description:1 online resource (251 pages)
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11404932
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Other authors / contributors:Berdal, Mats R., 1965- editor.
Serrano, Mónica, editor.
ISBN:9781626370197
1626370192
9781588260901
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Other form:Print version: Transnational organized crime and international security : business as usual? Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, ©2002 vii, 243 pages 9781588260901
Table of Contents:
  • Book Title
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • ch 1-Introduction
  • Transnational Organized Crime and International Security: A Brief Overview
  • September 11, 2001, and After: Crime and Terrorism
  • Note
  • Part 1: Globalization, Economic Reform, and Transnational Organized Crime
  • ch 2-Transnational Organized Crime and International Security: Business as Usual?
  • What Is Transnational Organized Crime?
  • Policies of Prohibition and Illegal Markets
  • The Industry of Protection
  • From Precipitation to Symbiosis
  • Globalization of Crime, or Globalization and Organized Crime?
  • Security at Risk?
  • Notes
  • ch 3-Transnational Crimeand Economic Globalization
  • The Business of Transnational Crime
  • Transnational Crime and Economic Liberalization
  • Transportation and Trade Liberalization
  • Counterarguments
  • Policy Escalation, Not Reevaluation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • ch 4-Liberalization and Transnational Financial Crime
  • Transnational Organized Crime and Financial Crime
  • Credit Card Fraud and Transnational Organized Crime
  • The New Financial Policing
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • ch 5-Cooperation Among Criminal Organizations.
  • Parallels of Cooperation Between Licit Business and Organized Crime
  • Table 5.1 Cooperative Relationships in the Business World
  • Patterns of Cooperation in the Criminal World
  • Initiating Cooperation
  • Problems with Cooperation
  • Notes
  • Part 2: International Organizations
  • ch 6-The UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
  • UN Efforts Against Transnational Organized Crime
  • Overview of the Convention
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • ch 7-The OAS and Transnational Organized Crime in the Americas
  • Drug Trafficking
  • The Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism
  • Firearms Trafficking.
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • ch 8-Law-Enforcement Cooperation and Transnational Organized Crime in Europe
  • Law-Enforcement Cooperation in the EU: The Case of Europol
  • Policy Actors
  • EU Analysis of Organized Crime
  • EU Instruments Against Organized Crime
  • Forms of Institutionalization
  • Coordination Structures Inside EU Member States
  • Patterns and Trends
  • Notes
  • Part 3: Regional Trends in Transnational Organized Crime
  • ch 9-Liberal Markets and the Republic of Europe: Contextualizing the Growth of Transnational Organized Crime.
  • Transnational Crime Globally and in Europe: What Is to Be Explained?
  • Table 9.1 Varieties of Organized Crime in Europe
  • Table 9.2 Crime in Manchester, 1990s
  • The Onward March of Liberal-Market Europe
  • Republican Visions
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • ch 10-Transnational Organized Crime and Conflict in the Balkans
  • The Balkans: History, Politics, and Ethnicity
  • Criminal Groups
  • Types of Organized Crime
  • Counterstrategies: Prevention and Repression
  • Notes
  • ch 11-From Small-Time Smuggling to Big-Time Racketeering: Turkey and the Middle East
  • Acculturating Concepts.