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This fully revised new edition provides a definitive and holistic overview of Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in a world in which right wing populism has gained ground, trade wars are increasing, climate change is a reality and Covid poses a challenge for years to come.
Updated to reflect the changing world environment, the book includes new chapters on issues such as criminal network analysis, environmental crime, cybercrime, people smuggling, drugs activities in the modern world, the relationship between organized crime and corruption, anti-organized crime resilience and the effectiveness of the fight against organized crime. New country case studies have also been included. The handbook is presented in six sections:
- Concepts, theories and laws
- Origins and manifestations
- Contagion and evolution
- Intensity and impact
- Governance
- Reaction and future
Truly interdisciplinary in nature, the handbook features contributions from an international team of experts, working in different academic disciplines and within varied law enforcement agencies. It will appeal to scholars, policymakers and practitioners in International Law, Global Governance, International Political Economy and Security Studies.
List of contents
Introduction PART I Concepts, theories and laws Chapter 1 Reflections on Transnational organized crime as a security concept Chapter 2 Transnational criminal networks Chapter 3 Transnational organized crime: a survey of laws, policies and international conventions PART II Origins and manifestations Chapter 4 The many faces of organized crime in Europe and its assessment. Chapter 5 The past and present of transnational organized crime in America Chapter 6 Transnational organized crime and corruption in Russia Chapter 7 Nigerian organized crime Chapter 8 Vietnamese organized crime Chapter 9 Black societies and triad-like organized crime in China PART III Contagion and Evolution Chapter 10 The economic geographies of transnational organised crime Chapter 11 The practice of transnational organized crime Chapter 12 Horizon scanning of global drug markets Chapter 13 The human trafficking-organised crime nexus Chapter 14 Foundations and evolution of the crime-terror nexus Chapter 15 Transnational organised environmental crime Chapter 16 Responding to transnational organized crimes: 'follow the money' Part IV Intensity and Impact Chapter 17 Transnational organised crime and the global village Chapter 18 Cybercrime and transnational organised criminal activity Chapter 19 Ethnicity, mobility and transnational organized crime hapter 20 Women and transnational organized crime: the ambiguous case of the Italian mafias Part V Governance Chapter 21 Italians mafias and the Antimafia movement Chapter 22 Human rights and the policing of transnational organized crime Chapter 23 Rethinking migrant smuggling through data Chapter 24 The State Before Criminal Firearms Chapter 25 'Cyber' - the 'Digital' Gold for Nigerian criminals Chapter 26 Go with the Flow and Undo the Knots: 'Nodal' Policing Against TOC Chapter 27 Corruption and transnational organised crime PART VI Reaction and Future Chapter 28 Community resilience to organized crime: building back better Chapter 29 The fight against transnational organised crime in Italy: What can we learn? Chapter 30 The European Union and its strategy against Serious transnational crime (2021-2025) Chapter 31 The fight against transnational organized crime in Russia Chapter 32 The threat of harm by transnational organized criminals: a US perspective Chapter 33 The global fight against TOC: evolution of approaches and their effectiveness
About the author
Felia Allum is Senior Lecturer in politics and Italian at the University of Bath, UK, and currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2018-2022).
Stan Gilmour holds a degree in criminology and politics and an MSc in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Oxford, UK. He is Senior Police Officer at Thames Valley Police, UK, and has led serious and complex criminal investigations and worked on capacity-building programmes in the UK and overseas.
Summary
This fully revised new edition provides a definitive and holistic overview of Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in a world in which right wing populism has gained ground, trade wars are increasing, and China is an emerging force.
