Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime: The War on Crime

ISBN-13: 9783319575643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 359 str.

Sasha Jesperson; Tuesday Reitano; Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez De Lugo

Opis

This edited volume examines the use of militarised responses to different forms of criminal activity, discussing the outcomes and unintended consequences. Politicians and policymakers frequently use militarised responses to look tough on crime. The deployment of armies, navies, military assets and militarised approaches can send a powerful message, but have produced mixed results. While they generate the perception that governments are actively engaged on issues of concern to the public, and in some cases have resulted in notable successes, on the downside they have frequently also increased the loss of life, exacerbated the humanitarian consequences of a particular crime and entrenched divides between security and state institutions and the criminal proponents, narrowing the possibilities for future negotiated solutions. By focusing on four different areas of criminality - wildlife crime, piracy, migration and drug trafficking - the book allows context and evidence-based conclusions to be drawn on the strategic value and commonality of responses and their outcomes.

Recenzje

"Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime has a lot to offer those with an interest in the War on Crime. The book's exploration of militarised responses to wildlife crime, piracy, migrant smuggling, and drug trafficking reveals how these responses are often ineffective on their own. ... I believe editors Tuesday Reitano, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo and Sasha Jesperson have put together a collection of essays which ranks among the best I have ever read." (Adam Finzi, CDA Institute, dcainstitute.ca, November 01, 2018)

"In Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime: The War on Crime, Tuesday Reitano, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo and Sasha Jesperson offer a collection addressing the issue of militarisation in the context of illicit wildlife trafficking, maritime piracy, human smuggling and drug dealing. ... this book has made a valuable contribution to the existing literature on transnational organised crime." (Anton Moiseienko, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, February, 2018)

Spis treści

Introduction: Militarised Responses to Organised Crime, Sasha Jesperson 

A War of Ideas: the Evolution of the Militarisation Debate:  Mark Shaw

Section 1: Wildlife Crime

1.1. The War on Kruger: rhino trafficking in Southern Africa, Julian Rademeyer

1.2. Blood Ivory in the Horn of Africa: countering terrorism and trafficking with the same toolbox, Tom Maguire

1.3. Environmental Governance: The Need for a Balanced Approach, Rosaleen Duffy

1.4. “A blunt instrument”: addressing criminal networks with military responses, and the impact on law enforcement and intelligence, John M. Sellar

Section 2: Piracy

2.1. Criminals or Pirates? Attacks in the Eastern Indian Ocean, Karsten von Hoesslin

2.2.   A growing, but little understood threat: Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, Ian Ralby

2.3.   The Dangers of Success: Military Responses to Somali Piracy, Anja Shortland

2.4.   Replicating Success? What have we learned from Somalia, Glen Forbes

Section 3: Migration

3.1. Smugglers Inc.: the illicit industry in human migration,  Tuesday Reitano

3.2. The militarisation of the US Border, Vicki Gaubeca

3.3. From Triton to Sofia: assessing the credibility of the EU’s naval interventions against migrant smuggling in the Mediterranean, Peter Roberts

3.4. The protection implications of ‘getting tough’ on smugglers at sea, Sumbul Rivzi

Section 4: Drug Trafficking

4.1. Governing the Drug Wars, John Collins

4.2. Lessons from Brazil: Military action in the Favelas, Paula Miraglia

4.3. The Violence of Drug Trafficking, Ivan Briscoe

4.4. An Issue for Public Health, Natasha Horsfield

Conclusion: The future of military intervention and the need for Comprehensive Approaches, Tuesday Reitano

O autorze

Tuesday Reitano is the Deputy Director of the Geneva-based Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and a senior research advisor at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa, where she leads five organised crime observatories for Africa.

Sasha Jesperson is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Slavery at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK, where she is leading policy-focused research to improve the response to modern slavery. Her key interests are the involvement of organised crime groups, and the role of development interventions in preventing slavery and human trafficking. 

Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo is currently a fellow in the Oxford Policy Fellowship programme, consulting on law and policy for the Ministry of Finance in Ghana. Previously she pursued a career as a corporate lawyer at Slaughter and May. Lucia's contributions to the field of organised crime have focusing on human smuggling and informal extractive industries.