Transnational Organized Crime
Analyses of a Global Challenge to Democracy
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.
Conception: Regine Schönenberg and Annette von Schönfeld.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Preface
Seiten 9 - 10 -
I. Introduction
Seiten 11 - 16 -
II. Transnational Issues of Organized Crime
1. Money Laundering: Motives, Methods, Impact, and Countermeasures
Seiten 17 - 34 -
2. What Do a Tax Evader and a Money Launderer have in Common? The Role of Secrecy in the Financial Sector
Seiten 35 - 40 -
3. "People should not be punished for being honest!"
Seiten 41 - 46 -
4. Organized Crime in Cyberspace
Seiten 47 - 60 -
5. Judicial and Social Conditions for the Containment of Organized Crime: A Best Practice Account
Seiten 61 - 74 -
III. Regional Perspectives
1. INTRODUCTION
Seiten 75 - 76 -
2. Afghanistan
2.1 TWO SIDES OF A COIN? STATEBUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME NETWORKS IN AFGHANISTAN
Seiten 77 - 90 -
2.2 "MIRED IN DECEPTION" - NARCOTICS AND POLITICS IN AFGHANISTAN
Seiten 91 - 108 -
2.3 HOW TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN AFGHANISTAN: A COMMUNITY PROJECT EXAMPLE
Seiten 109 - 114 -
3. India
3.1 BLACK ECONOMY IN INDIA AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME: UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY
Seiten 115 - 126 -
4. West Africa
4.1 ORGANIZED AND TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN WEST AFRICA
Seiten 127 - 144 -
5. South Africa
5.1 FROM APARTHEID TO 2020: THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZED CRIMINAL NETWORKS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Seiten 145 - 148 -
6. Mexico
6.1 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE WAR AGAINST DRUGS IN MEXICO
Seiten 149 - 160 -
6.2 Extortion in Everyday Life in Mexico
Seiten 161 - 168 -
6.3 CIVIL SOCIETY'S STRATEGIES TO CONFRONT GROWING INSECURITY AND VIOLENCE IN MEXICO
Seiten 169 - 178 -
7. Brazil
7.1 VIOLENCE AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN BRAZIL: THE CASE OF "MILITIAS" IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Seiten 179 - 188 -
7.2 ROOTS OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE AMAZON
Seiten 189 - 198 -
7.3 IF THE MPF WOULD NOT GO FOR IT, WHO WILL?
Seiten 199 - 202 -
7.4 UNHOLY ALLIANCES OR CREATIVE PROCESSES? SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACHES POINT OUT NEW WAYS TOWARD LOCAL HARM REDUCTION
Seiten 203 - 210 -
8. The Balkans
8.1 A "BLACK HOLE" IN EUROPE? THE SOCIAL AND DISCURSIVE REALITY OF CRIME IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S TACIT COMPLICITY
Seiten 211 - 232 -
8.2 TRAFFICKING IN ORGANS, TISSUES, AND CELLS IS SOMETIMES PART OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Seiten 233 - 238 -
9. European Union
9.1 ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION - NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES
Seiten 239 - 266 -
10. Italy
10.1 CIVIL SOCIETY'S ROLE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE 'NDRANGHETA
Seiten 267 - 276 -
10.2 AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO COMBAT THE MAFIA: CONFISCATION OF CRIMINAL ASSETS
Seiten 277 - 284 -
11. Germany
11.1 THE MAFIA AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN GERMANY
Seiten 285 - 294 -
IV. Outlook
Seiten 295 - 296 -
ABBREVIATIONS
Seiten 297 - 298 -
Authors
Seiten 299 - 308
2013-06-11, 312 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2495-3
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