Global Crime Today: The Changing Face of Organised Crime

ISBN-13: 9780415436670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 168 str.

MARK GALEOTTI

Opis

Crime is recognized as a constant factor within human society, but in the twenty-first century organized crime is emerging as one of the distinctive security threats of the new world order. The more complex, organized and interconnected society becomes, its crime becomes too. This book recognizes that the new century will be defined in part by a struggle between an 'upperworld', defined by increasingly open economic systems and democratic politics, and a transnational, entrepreneurial, dynamic and richly varied underworld, willing and able to use and distort these trends for its own ends. In order to understand this challenge, this book gathers together experts from a variety of fields to understand how organized crime is changing. From the Sicilian Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza, to the new challenges of Russian and East European gangs and the 'virtual mafias' of the cybercriminals, this book offers a clear and concise introduction to many of the key players moving in this global criminal underworld. This book is a special issue of Global Crime

Recenzje

'An important collection of essays ... [it] can be recommended to anybody interested in obtaining a comprehensive overview of the nature of organised crime.' - Thamesview

Spis treści

Introduction: The Changing Face of Global Crime  North American Organised Crime   Italian Organised Crime   Globalisation and Latin American and Caribbean Organised Crime   The Russian ‘Mafiya’: Consolidation and globalisation   Organised Crime in East Central Europe   Chinese Organised Crime   The Changing Face of the Yakuza   State Crime: North Korean Drug Trafficking   The Crime-Terror Continuum   The Global Dimension of Cybercrime

O autorze

Mark Galeotti