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While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal organizations like the Cosa Nostra or the Japanese Yakuza have seen their power reduced, organized crime remains a concern for many governments. Economic globalization and the easing of restrictions on exchanges across borders now provide ample opportunity for money-making activities in illegal markets. Policies designed to stop illegal market flows often shift these activities to new places or create new problems, as the U.S.- led war on drugs spread production and trafficking to a number South and Central American countries. The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime provides informed, authoritative, and comprehensive overviews of these issues and other principal forms of organized crime, as well as the type and effectiveness of efforts to prevent and control them. Leading scholars from criminology, law, sociology, history, and political science discuss the key concepts, history, and methods of organized crime; the major actors and interactions involved in it; the markets and activities frequently associated with organized crime; and the policies designed to combat it. Individual chapters on criminal organizations and specific activities or markets comprise the heart of the volume. The chapters on actors provide the history, analyze the structure and activities, and assess the strength and future prospects of each organization. Articles on particular markets address the patterns of activity, identify the most affected regions, and where possible provide estimated revenues, discuss factors promoting the activity, and disclose information on the victims and harms caused. The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime delivers a systematic, high-quality, and truly global approach to the topic and with it a more complete understanding of organized crime in its many forms for researchers, government officials, and policymakers.--Provided by publisher
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monografia Rebiun14236088 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun14236088 ta 150211s2014 enk b 001 0 eng 2013020568 9780199730445 hardcover : alk. paper) 019973044X hardcover : alk. paper) UDE 991006770569903351 CBUC 991039425739706706 DLC. eng. DLC. DLC. rda. SKYRV. UGR The Oxford handbook of organized crime edited by Letizia Paoli Oxford Oxford University Press [2014] Oxford Oxford Oxford University Press xi, 692 p. 26 cm xi, 692 p. The Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices Introduction / Letizia Paoli -- Part I: Concept, theories, history, and research methods -- Organized crime: A contested concept / Letizia Paoli and Tom Vander Beken -- Theoretical perspectives on organized crime / Edward R. Kleemans -- Searching for organized crime in history / Cryrille Fijnaut -- How to research organized crime / Dick Hobbs and Goergios A. Antonopoulos -- Part II: Actors and interactions -- The Italian Mafia / Letizia Paoli -- The Itallian-American Mafia / Jay S. Albanese -- The Russian Mafia: Rise and extinction / Vadim Volkov -- Organized crime in Colombia: The actors running the illegal drug industry / Francisco E. Thoumi -- Mexican Drug "Cartels" / Monica Medel and Francisco E. Thoumi -- Chinese organized crime / Ko-Lin Chin -- The Japanese Yakuza / Peter Hill -- Nigerian criminal organizations / Phil Williams -- Gangs: Another form of organized crime? / Scott H. Decker and David C. Pyrooz -- Opportunistic structures of organized crime / Martin Bouchard and Carlo Morselli -- Organizing crime: The state as agent / Susanne Karstedt -- The social embeddedness of organized crime / Henk van de Bunt, Dina Siegel, and Damian Zaitch -- Part III: Markets and activities -- Protection and extortion / Federico Varese -- Drug markets and organized crime / Peter Reuter -- Human smuggling, human trafficking, and exploitation in the sex industry / Edward R. Kleemans and Monika Smit -- Illegal gambling / Toine Spapens -- Money laundering / Michael Levi -- Arms trafficking / Andrew Feinstein and Paul Holden -- Organized fraud / Michael Levi -- Cybercrime / Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Peter Grabosky -- The illegal exploitation of natural resources / Tim Boekhout van Solinge -- Part IV: Policies to control organized crime -- Organized crime control in the United States of America / James B. Jacobs and Elizabeth Dondlinger Wyman -- U.S. organized crime control policies exported abroad / Margaret Beare and Michael Woodiwiss -- European Union Organized crime control policies / Cyrille Fijnaut -- The fight against the Italian Mafia / Antonia La Spina -- Organized crime control in Australia and New Zealand / Julie Ayling and Roderic Broadhurst -- Organized crime "control" in Asia: Experiences from India, China, and the Golden Triangle / Roderic Broadhurst and Nicholas Farrelly -- Finance-oriented strategies of organized crime control / Michael Kilchling While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal organizations like the Cosa Nostra or the Japanese Yakuza have seen their power reduced, organized crime remains a concern for many governments. Economic globalization and the easing of restrictions on exchanges across borders now provide ample opportunity for money-making activities in illegal markets. Policies designed to stop illegal market flows often shift these activities to new places or create new problems, as the U.S.- led war on drugs spread production and trafficking to a number South and Central American countries. The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime provides informed, authoritative, and comprehensive overviews of these issues and other principal forms of organized crime, as well as the type and effectiveness of efforts to prevent and control them. Leading scholars from criminology, law, sociology, history, and political science discuss the key concepts, history, and methods of organized crime; the major actors and interactions involved in it; the markets and activities frequently associated with organized crime; and the policies designed to combat it. Individual chapters on criminal organizations and specific activities or markets comprise the heart of the volume. The chapters on actors provide the history, analyze the structure and activities, and assess the strength and future prospects of each organization. Articles on particular markets address the patterns of activity, identify the most affected regions, and where possible provide estimated revenues, discuss factors promoting the activity, and disclose information on the victims and harms caused. The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime delivers a systematic, high-quality, and truly global approach to the topic and with it a more complete understanding of organized crime in its many forms for researchers, government officials, and policymakers.--Provided by publisher Crimen organizado Criminología Paoli, Letizia ed. lit