Criminals and Terrorists in Partnership

Helena Carrapico is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on European security, with a particular focus on cyber security and cyber-crime. Daniela Irrera is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Catania, Italy. Her research focuses on the crime-terror nexus and its implications for global security policies, in particular those of the European Union. Bill Tupman is Visiting Professor in Criminal Justice at BPP University, UK, and Honorary University fellow, at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests focus on transnational crime, terrorism and police responses.

Introduction – Transnational organised crime and terrorism: different peas, same pod? 1. Catch Me If You Can: or how policy networks help tackle the crime–terror nexus 2. Transnational organised crime and terrorism: Nexus needing a human security framework 3. Categorising the crime–terror nexus in the European Union 4. Jihadi networks and the involvement of vulnerable immigrants: reconsidering the ideological and pragmatic value 5. Breaking the nexus: conceptualising ‘illicit sovereigns’ A study of the relation between the Sicilian Mafia and the Italian state 6. Islamist movements in the Fergana Valley: a new threat assessment approach 7. Crime, terror and the state in Central Asia 8. The nexus between terrorism and product counterfeiting in the United States