Politicising and Policing Organised Crime

ISBN-13: 9780367785079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 174 str.

Monique Mann

Opis

Drawing on international fieldwork, this book challenges existing assumptions and accepted understandings of organised crime and explores the ways in which it is amplified and reconstructed for political purposes.

Spis treści

Part 1: Contexts, constructs and contestations;  1. The origins of organised crime;  Part 2: Metaphors, monsters and moral entrepreneurs;  2. The politics of organised crime;  3. Organised crime and global (in)security;  Part 3: Infrastructures, empires and enterprises;  4. The architecture of organised crime law;  5. The organised crime policing and intelligence enterprise;  6. Organised crime and onwards;  7. Epilogue: Reflections and further considerations.

O autorze

Dr Monique Mann is the Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the School of Justice, Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology. She is advancing a program of socio-legal research on the intersecting topics of police technology, surveillance, and transnational policing.