Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime

Felia Allum is a lecturer in Politics and Italian at the University of Bath, UK where she is also politics section coordinator. Her research interests are organized crime, Italian and European politics. She has published various articles on these topics in English, French and Italian academic journals as well her book, Camorristi, Businessmen and Politicians, the transformation of organized crime in post war Naples (Leeds, Maney Publisher, 2006). She is co-convenor of the ECPR standing group on organised crime and a founding associate editor of the Journal of Global Crime (Routledge). Stan Gilmour is a Detective Chief Inspector with Thames Valley Police, UK, where he is a major crime Senior Investigating Officer and the force’s Lead Officer for kidnap and extortion investigations. His research interests are focused on policing and include the role of trust, equality, and fairness in service delivery, and on examining the policing response to organized criminals. He has published articles on these topics in academic journals.

Introduction F. Allum and S. Gilmour Section 1: Theories, Concepts, Definitions and Laws 1. Transnational Organized Crime as a Security Concept Helena Carrapico 2. Transnational Organized Crime: Thinking in and Out of Plato's Cave Petrus C. van Duyne and Mark D. H. Nelemans 3. Transnational Organized Crime and Social Sciences Myths William J Chambliss and Elizabeth Williams 4. A Survey of the Legal Standing of Transnational Organized Crime Joseph Wheatley Section 2: Origins and Manifestations 5. The Many Faces of Organized Crime in Europe and its Assessment Tom Vander Beken 6. The Past and Present of Transnational Organized Crime in America Mike Woodiwiss 7. Transnational Organized Crime in Russia Serguei Cheloukhine 8. Nigerian Organized Crime Stephen Ellis 9. Transnational and Organized Crime in the Indo-Asia Pacific Roderic Broadhurst, Sandy Gordon and John McFarlane 10. Black Societies and Triad-like Organized Crime in China Roderic Broadhurst Section 3: Contagion and Evolution 11. The Geography of Transnational Organized Crime: Spaces, Newtworks and Flows Tim Hall 12. The Practice of Transnational Organized Crime Klaus von Lampe 13. The Evolution of the International Drugs Trade: The Case of Colombia, 1930 - 2000 Michael Kenney 14. The Human Trafficking- Organized Crime Nexus Alexis A. Aronowitz 15. Foundations and Evolution of the Crime-Terror Nexus Tamara Makarenko 16. A Bog of Conspiracy: The Institutional Evolution of Organized Crime in the UK Dick Hobbs and Sue Hobbs 17. Responding to Transnational Organized Crimes:'Follow the Money' Margaret E. Beare Section 4: Intensity and Impact 18. Transnational Organized Crime and the Global Village Kelly Hignett 19. Transnational Organized Crime: Media, Myths and Moralities Paddy Rawlinson 20. Ethnicity, Migration and Transnational Organized Crime Jana Arsovska 21. Women and Transnational Organized Crime: The Ambigious Case of the Italian Mafias Alessandra Dino 22. Transnational Organized Crime and Alternative Culture Industry Jason Pine Section 5: Governance 23. Civil Society and Transnational Organized Crime: The Case of the Italian Antimafia Movement Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider 24. Human Rights and the Policing of Transnational Organized Crime Clive Harfield 25. Criminalising People Smuggling: Preventing or Globalizing Harm? Leanne Weber and Michael Grewcock 26. The State and Transnational Organized Crime: the Case of Small Arms Trafficking Dawn L. Rothe and Jeffrey Ian Ross 27. Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism Angela Gendron 28. Go with the Flow and Undo the Knots: Intelligence and Interconnectivity in Transnational Orgnaized Crime Policing Monica den Boer 29. Friends with Shared Aims? UK Experience Targeting Crime Overseas with Partner States - the Need, the Roles and the Issue Mark Bishop 30. The Endangered Empire: American Responses to Transnational Organized Crime Robert J. Kelly and Sharona A. Levy Section 6: Reaction and Future 31. Local Policing and Transnational Organized Crime Stan Gilmour and Robert France 32. The Fight against Transnational Organized Crime in Italy: What Can we Learn? Armando D'Alterio 33. Mind the (information) Gap: Making Sense of the European Union's Strategic Approach to Transnational Organized Crime Ben Goold 34. The Fight against Transnational Organized Crime in Russa Alexandra V. Orlova 35. The Threat of Harm by Transnational Organized Criminals: A US Perspective David A. Marvelli and James O. Finckenauer 36. The Fight against Transnational Organized Crime in the Indo Asia Pacific: An Australian Perspective