Historical Perspectives on Organized Crime and Terrorism

ISBN-13: 9781138652651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

James Windle;John Morrison;Aaron Winter

Opis

This edited volume is based upon a simple premise: Historical accounts of organised crime and terrorism offer critically important lessons for understanding and responding to contemporary threats and phenomena. The chapters provide cutting edge historical research into different elements of organised crime and terrorism, including exploring critical issues around the links between terrorism and organised crime, as well as exploring key case studies from a range of countries and periods. Critical 'lessons learned' are drawn out from each chapter, providing valuable insights for current policy, practice and scholarship. This book is an indispensable guide for understanding the wider history of terrorism and organised crime. It maps key historical changes and trends in this area and underlines the vital importance of history in understanding critical contemporary issues. Taking an interdisciplinary approach and written by leading criminologists, historians and political scientists, this book will be of particular interest to students of terrorism/counter-terrorism, organised crime, drug policy, criminology, security studies, politics, international relations and history.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Hawking the historical method in organised crime and terrorism studies, James Windle, John F. Morrison, Aaron Winter and Andrew Silke. Organised Crime.  2. ‘A citadel of crime’: Saint Paul, Minnesota, and the O’Connor System, James A. Densley  3. The causes of traditional organized crime: Comparing Chicago and New York, Robert M Lombardo  4. The French Connection: A brief critical history, Ryan Gingeras  5. 'He just wasn’t the bloke I used to know': Social capital and the fragmentation of a British organised crime network, James Windle.  Terrorism.  6. 1975: The truce that changed the Troubles, John F. Morrison  7. The Klan is history: A historical perspective on the revival of the far-right in ‘post-racial’ America, Aaron Winter.  Terrorism and organised crime?  8. Somali maritime predation: Traditional piracy or a new form of terrorism?, Anamika Twyman-Ghoshal  9. Narcoterrorism in Colombia, Francis Gaffney  10. Empire, war, decolonisation and the birth of the illicit opium trade in Burma, 1800-1961, John Collins  11. Jamaat-al-Muslimeen: The blurred lines between organised crime and terrorism in Trinidad and Tobago, Andrew Silke