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Transnational organised crime : perspectives on global security perspectives on global security / edited by Adam Edwards and Peter Gill.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Transnational crimePublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0415300959
  • 9780415300957
  • 9780203633854
  • 0203633857
  • 9780415403399
  • 0415403391
Other title:
  • Transnational organized crime
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1/35 21
LOC classification:
  • HV6252 .T74
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Contents:
Transnational organised crime : the global reach of an American concept / Michael Woodiwiss -- Europe's response to transnational organised crime / Martin Elvins -- Global law enforcement as a protection racket : some sceptical notes on transnational organised crime as an object of global governance / James Sheptycki -- Measuring transnational organised crime : an empirical study of existing data sets on TOC with particular reference to intergovernmental organisations / Bill Burnham -- Classify, report and measure : the UK organised crime notification scheme / Frank Gregory -- The network paradigm applied to criminal organisations : theoretical nitpicking or a relevant doctrine for investigators? Recent developments in the Netherlands / Peter Klerks -- Transnational organised crime : a police perspective / Peter Stelfox -- Bad boys in the Baltics / Paddy Rawlinson -- Controlling drug trafficking in Central Europe : the impact of EU policies in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Lithuania / Barbara Bogusz and Mike King -- Recognising organised crime's victims : the case of sex trafficking in the EU / Jo Goodey -- The legal regulation of transnational organised crime : opportunities and limitations / Estella Baker -- Countering the chameleon threat of dirty money : "hard" and "soft" law in the emergence of a global regime against money laundering and terrorist finance / Valsamis Mitsilegas -- Criminal asset-stripping : confiscating the proceeds of crime in England and Wales / Michael Levi -- Proteiform criminalities : the formation of organised crime as organisers' responses to developments in four fields of control / Nicholas Dorn -- Organised crime and the "Conjunction of criminal opportunity" framework / Paul Ekblom -- After transnational organised crime? : the politics of public safety / Adam Edwards and Peter Gill.
Summary: The origins & perceptions of transnational organised crime are discussed in this book. The authors contend that the ways in which such crime is constructed as an 'external' threat obscures the reality that such crime is demand driven & they question whether law enforcement alone can contain it.
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Originally presented Feb. 1999-Feb. 2001 at a series of six seminars organized under the heading of Policy responses to transnational organised crime.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transnational organised crime : the global reach of an American concept / Michael Woodiwiss -- Europe's response to transnational organised crime / Martin Elvins -- Global law enforcement as a protection racket : some sceptical notes on transnational organised crime as an object of global governance / James Sheptycki -- Measuring transnational organised crime : an empirical study of existing data sets on TOC with particular reference to intergovernmental organisations / Bill Burnham -- Classify, report and measure : the UK organised crime notification scheme / Frank Gregory -- The network paradigm applied to criminal organisations : theoretical nitpicking or a relevant doctrine for investigators? Recent developments in the Netherlands / Peter Klerks -- Transnational organised crime : a police perspective / Peter Stelfox -- Bad boys in the Baltics / Paddy Rawlinson -- Controlling drug trafficking in Central Europe : the impact of EU policies in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Lithuania / Barbara Bogusz and Mike King -- Recognising organised crime's victims : the case of sex trafficking in the EU / Jo Goodey -- The legal regulation of transnational organised crime : opportunities and limitations / Estella Baker -- Countering the chameleon threat of dirty money : "hard" and "soft" law in the emergence of a global regime against money laundering and terrorist finance / Valsamis Mitsilegas -- Criminal asset-stripping : confiscating the proceeds of crime in England and Wales / Michael Levi -- Proteiform criminalities : the formation of organised crime as organisers' responses to developments in four fields of control / Nicholas Dorn -- Organised crime and the "Conjunction of criminal opportunity" framework / Paul Ekblom -- After transnational organised crime? : the politics of public safety / Adam Edwards and Peter Gill.

The origins & perceptions of transnational organised crime are discussed in this book. The authors contend that the ways in which such crime is constructed as an 'external' threat obscures the reality that such crime is demand driven & they question whether law enforcement alone can contain it.

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