Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung / Regine Schönenberg (eds.)

Transnational Organized Crime

Analyses of a Global Challenge to Democracy
(Conception: Regine Schönenberg and Annette von Schönfeld)

Transnational organized crime interferes with the everyday lives of more and more people – and represents a serious threat to democracy. By now, organized crime has become an inherent feature of economic globalization, and the fine line between the legal and illegal operation of business networks is blurred. Additionally, few experts could claim to have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the laws and regulations governing the international flow of trade, and hence of the borderline towards criminal transactions.

This book offers contributions from 12 countries around the world authored by 25 experts from a wide range of academic disciplines, representatives from civil society organizations and private industry, journalists, as well as activists. Recognizing the complexity of the issue, this publication provides a cross cultural and multi-disciplinary analysis of transnational organized crime including a historical approach from different regional and cultural contexts.

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2013-06-11, 312 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2495-3

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»Insgesamt vermittelt der Band [...] trotz oder gerade wegen der zahlreichen Perspektiven auf das Thema ein Verständnis für die Vielschichtigkeit des Problems und die Notwendigkeit umfassenderer Ansätze.«
Christian Patz, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 09.04.2015

»Es ist die nüchterne, wissenschaftliche Analyse und ihre Sprache, die die Problematik so eindringlich präsentiert und beweist, dass die Organisierte Kriminalität weltweit keine marginale Erscheinung ist und konsequentes, gemeinsames Handeln erfordert – auch in Deutschland.«
Europäische Sicherheit & Technik, 3 (2014)

»Das Buch bietet einen guten Einstieg in die Thematik und liest sich sehr abwechslungsreich.«
Alexander Kamprad, http://criminologia.de/www.surveillance-studies.org, 1 (2014)

»The broad range of perspectives and multi-professional approach are refreshing and fit well into the editors mission to focus on features of TOC that are not generally brought into conversation with each other.«
Nicholas Dietrich, H-Soz-u-Kult, 06.12.2013

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taz, 20.06.2013, Wolf-Dieter Vogel

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Autor_in(nen): Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung / Regine Schönenberg (eds.)
Buchtitel: Transnational Organized Crime Analyses of a Global Challenge to Democracy
(Conception: Regine Schönenberg and Annette von Schönfeld)
Verlag: transcript Verlag
Seitenanzahl: 312
Ausstattung: kart.

ISBN: 978-3-8376-2495-3
DOI
Warengruppe: 1729
BIC-Code: JKV JFFS JPHV
BISAC-Code: SOC004000 POL033000 SOC026000 POL007000
THEMA-Code: JKV GTQ JPHV

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-06-11
Auflage
Themen: Globalisierung, Gewalt, Politik
Adressaten: Sociology, Economics, Politics and a broader public audience

Schlagworte: Transnational Organized Crime, Globalization, Money Laundering, Corruption, Narcotics, Mafia, Human Trafficking, Democracy, Politics, Violence, Sociology of Crime, International Relations, Political Science

Transnational Organized Crime

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Contents

Preface

I. Introduction

1. Money Laundering: Motives, Methods, Impact, and Countermeasures

2. What Do a Tax Evader and a Money Launderer have in Common? The Role of Secrecy in the Financial Sector

3. "People should not be punished for being honest!"

4. Organized Crime in Cyberspace

5. Judicial and Social Conditions for the Containment of Organized Crime: A Best Practice Account

1. INTRODUCTION

2.1 TWO SIDES OF A COIN? STATEBUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME NETWORKS IN AFGHANISTAN

2.2 "MIRED IN DECEPTION" - NARCOTICS AND POLITICS IN AFGHANISTAN

2.3 HOW TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN AFGHANISTAN: A COMMUNITY PROJECT EXAMPLE

3.1 BLACK ECONOMY IN INDIA AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME: UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY

4.1 ORGANIZED AND TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN WEST AFRICA

5.1 FROM APARTHEID TO 2020: THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZED CRIMINAL NETWORKS IN SOUTH AFRICA

6.1 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE WAR AGAINST DRUGS IN MEXICO

6.2 Extortion in Everyday Life in Mexico

6.3 CIVIL SOCIETY'S STRATEGIES TO CONFRONT GROWING INSECURITY AND VIOLENCE IN MEXICO

7.1 VIOLENCE AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN BRAZIL: THE CASE OF "MILITIAS" IN RIO DE JANEIRO

7.2 ROOTS OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE AMAZON

7.3 IF THE MPF WOULD NOT GO FOR IT, WHO WILL?

7.4 UNHOLY ALLIANCES OR CREATIVE PROCESSES? SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACHES POINT OUT NEW WAYS TOWARD LOCAL HARM REDUCTION

8.1 A "BLACK HOLE" IN EUROPE? THE SOCIAL AND DISCURSIVE REALITY OF CRIME IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S TACIT COMPLICITY

8.2 TRAFFICKING IN ORGANS, TISSUES, AND CELLS IS SOMETIMES PART OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING

9.1 ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION - NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

10.1 CIVIL SOCIETY'S ROLE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE 'NDRANGHETA

10.2 AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO COMBAT THE MAFIA: CONFISCATION OF CRIMINAL ASSETS

11.1 THE MAFIA AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN GERMANY

IV. Outlook

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Authors

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Regine Schönenberg