| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 354 pages) |
| Contents |
Transnational organized crime : the strange career of an American concept / Michael Woodiwiss -- Predators, parasites, or free-market pioneers : reflections on the nature and analysis of profit-driven crime / R.T. Naylor -- From national to global, from empirical to legal : the ambivalent concept of transnational organized crime / Valsamis Mitsilegas -- The business of bribery : globalization, economic liberalization, and the 'problem' of corruption / James W. Williams and Margaret E. Beare -- Against transnational organized crime / James Sheptycki -- Discourse, identity, and the U.S. 'war on drugs' / Kyle Grayson -- Global markets and crime / Vincenzo Ruggiero -- Organized corporate criminality : corporate complicity in tobacco smuggling / Margaret E. Beare -- The war on drugs and the military : the case of Colombia / Juan G. Ronderos -- Drug trafficking and organized crime in Canada : a study of high-level drug networks / Frederick J. Desroches -- Follow-the-money methods in crime control policy / R.T. Naylor |
| Summary |
Contributors offer a wide range of challenges to commonly-held views on transnational crime and approaches to fighting it, suggesting that current international policies follow an American model that exaggerates its threat out of proportion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Organized crime.
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Transnational crime.
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Money laundering.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- International cooperation
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TRUE CRIME -- Organized Crime.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- International cooperation
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Money laundering
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Organized crime
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Transnational crime
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Geldwäsche
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Korruption
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Organisiertes Verbrechen
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Witwassen.
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Georganiseerde misdaad.
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Corruptie.
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Drugshandel.
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Crime organisé.
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Blanchiment de l'argent.
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Justice pénale -- Administration -- Coopération internationale.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442670242 |
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144267024X |
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