First appeared as a special issue of Transnational organized crime, vol. 4, nos. 3 & 4, Autumn/Winter 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview / Phil Williams and Dimitri Vlassis -- The dynamics of illegal markets / Pino Arlacchi -- Transnational crime : definitions and concepts / Gerhard O.W. Mueller -- Globalization and transnational crime : effects of criminogenic asymmetries / Nikos Passas -- Organizing transnational crime : networks, markets and hierarchies / Phil Williams -- Criminal fraternities or criminal enterprises? / Letizia Paoli -- Organized crime and ethnic minorities : is there a link? / Frank Bovenkerk -- Transnational Chinese organized crime activities : patterns and emerging trends / Ko-Lin Chin, Sheldon Zhang and Robert J. Kelly -- Maritime fraud and piracy / Jayant Abhyankar -- Crime in cyberspace / P.N. Grabosky -- The rise of the modern arms black market and the fall of supply-side control / R.T. Naylor -- Trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children / Livia Pomodoro -- Trafficking in people : the human rights dimension / Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) -- Money laundering in Italy / Alessandro Pansa -- Strengthening the international legal system in order to combat transnational crime / Giuseppe di Gennaro -- Responding to transnational crime / Raymond E. Kendall -- Transnational organized crime and institutional reform in the European Union : the case of judicial cooperation / Cyrille Fijnaut -- Responding to transnational crime -- the role of Europol / Emanuele Marotta -- International Atomic Energy Agency programme against illicit trafficking of nuclear materials and radioactive sources / Anita Nillson -- Strengthening cooperation against transnational crime : a new security imperative / Roy Godson and Phil Williams -- Drafting the United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime / Dimitri Vlassis.