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Informationen zum Autor James Sheptycki is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Science, York University, Toronto, Canada. He has written on a variety of substantive criminological topics including domestic violence, money laundering, drugs, public order policing, organized crime, police accountability, intelligence-led policing, witness protection, risk and insecurity. He is currently engaged in empirical research concerning 'guns, crime and social order'. He is widely published on topics related to transnational crime and policing. Recent publications include Global Policing (2012, with Ben Bowling, London: Sage) and Transnational Crime and Policing; Selected Essays (2012, Aldershot; Ashgate). Klappentext Transnational organized crime (TOC) has emerged as a major idea in the conceptual field of global governance. Studies of TOC intersect with disparate criminological issues inhabiting apparently different domains: comparative criminal justice, migration studies, transnational policing and the political sociology of crime, to name just a few. The four-volume structure of this major work enables coverage of the historic development of its conceptualization, critical definitional and socio-political issues, empirical case studies and realist formulations of the problem area as well as theoretical, normative debates, alternative conceptual formulations and policy choices. Each volume contains an introduction illustrating and contextualizing the main themes in each section. Volume One: Definitions and Theories Volume Two: Origins, Resources, Organization Volume Three: Organized Crime and the Penetration of Markets Volume Four: Organized Crime and Popular Culture, States and Terrorism Zusammenfassung This Major Work covers the historic development of transnational organized crime from its conception. Each volume contains an introduction illustrating and contextualizing the main themes in each section. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Preface to the Collection - James Sheptycki Introduction - James Sheptycki War Making and State Making as Organized Crime - Charles Tilly Economic Consequences of Organized Violence - Frederic Lane Crime as an American Way of Life - Daniel Bell Illegal Enterprise: A Theoretical and Historical Interpretation - Mark Haller The Ethnic Vice Industry, 1880-1944 - Ivan Light The Notorious Purple Gang: Detroit's All Jewish Prohibition Era Mob - Robert Rockaway Mafia, the Prototypical Alien Conspiracy - Dwight Smith Jr The Black Hand: A Study in Moral Panic - Robert Lombardo History and the Study of Organized Crime - Alan Block Vice, Corruption, Bureaucracy and Power - William Chambliss Corruption and Organized Crime: Lessons from History - Margaret Beare The Decline of the American Mafia - Peter Reuter Transnational Organized Crime; The Strange Career of an American Concept - Michael Woodiwiss Transnational Organized Crime; thinking in and out of Plato's Cave - Petrus van Duyne and Mark Nelemans The Mafia and Al Qaeda: Violent and Secretive Organizations in Comparative and Historical Perspective - Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider VOLUME TWO: DEFINITIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES, CONSTRUCTIONIST AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES Introduction - James Sheptycki The Symbols of the Mafia - Diego Gambetta The Secret History of Japanese Cinema: The Yakuza Movies - Federico Varese Methodological Problems in the Study of Organized Crime as a Social Problem - Donald Cressey The Organized Crime Continuum: A Further Specification of a New Conceptual Model - Frank Hagan Problems of Definition: What is Organized Crime? - James Finckenauer Identifying Counting and Categorizing Transnational Criminal Organizations - Louise Shelley Mafia Markers: Assessing Organized Crime and...
