Russian Organized Corruption Networks and their International Trajectories

Countries undergoing major social and legal transitions typically experience a light, but relatively insignificant, increase in crime. However, in the past decade, many transitional countries in Eastern Europe, and Russia in particular, have experienced a surge in criminal activities that came about through the collaboration of diverse players-such as criminals, state officials, businesspersons, and law enforcement-into organized networks aimed to obtain financial and economic gains.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Serguei Cheloukhine is an Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. His areas of expertise are Property Rights, Corrupt Networks, Organized Crime, Money Laundering and Terrorism (Russia and Eastern Europe). He was a Professor and the Department of Social Sciences Chairperson at the Rostov-on-Don Law School for ten years. Studying Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption in Russia, led him to the Nathanson Center for the Study of Organized and Corruption, York University in Canada where Serguei worked as researcher and finished his PhD

Zusammenfassung

This book addresses fundamental changes that have taken place in Russia in the last five to seven years, including increasing crime in the economy and the shift of power from organized crime and mafia-like organizations to the Organized Corruption Networks.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sergue Cheloukhine, Serguei Cheloukhine, M R Haberfeld, M. R. Haberfeld, M.R. Haberfeld
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781493901890
• ISBN: 978-1-4939-0189-0
• Seiten: 181
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 10 mm x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 314 g
• Illustration: XIX, 181 p.
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Kriminologie; B, Political Science, Criminology, Social Sciences, Political science & theory, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Transnational Crime, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie, Social Reform Russia