Global Organized Crime - A Reference Handbook

This book offers a comprehensive, multidimensional look into the major activities, groups, causes, and policing strategies related to global organized crime. Global Organized Crime: A Reference Handbook examines global organized crime dating back to its 17th-century roots. Unlike most works on the subject, which take a parochial approach by concentrating on individual countries or regions, this book uniquely details the impact of 21st-century globalization on such groups and their activities. Exploring the continuum of international organized crime and related developments from its early beginnings to the present era, the book also looks at the complicated issues that continue to influence its growth. It covers the impact of the end of the Cold War, immigration, the global drug trade, weapons sales, human smuggling and trafficking, the convergence of funding sources, and the effects of technology. What especially distinguishes this book is the connections it makes between organized crime activities and failed states, civil wars, political transitions, regional conflicts, and terrorist groups.

About the author

Mitchel P. Roth is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University. He is author of a number of books including Historical Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Greenwood, 2001).

Product details

• Authors: Mitchel Roth, Mitchel P Roth, Mitchel P. Roth, Roth Mitchel P.
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2010
• EAN: 9781598843323
• ISBN: 978-1-59884-332-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Contemporary World Issues; Contemporary World Issues (Har; Contemporary World Issues (Har; Contemporary World Issues
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; REFERENCE / Handbooks & Manuals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Crime, LAW / International, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology