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1. An Economic History of Organized Crime

   A National and Transnational Approach

   By Dennis M.P. McCarthy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics

   This book is a comparative study of organized crime groups from five different parts of the world: Europe; North America; Central America/South America/Caribbean basin; Africa; and Asia/Western Pacific. Each part contains two case studies and a shorter essay, a vignette. From Europe the case...

   Published May 12th 2011 by Routledge
2. The Anti Money Laundering Complex and the Compliance Industry

   By Antoinette Verhage

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics

   Financial institutions, as gateways to the financial system, to economic power and possibilities, are one of the major vehicles for money laundering and therefore also represent an important means to prevent this type of crime. The compliance officer symbolises a part of this private investment in...

   Published March 1st 2011 by Routledge
3. Deterrence and Crime Prevention

   Reconsidering the prospect of sanction

   By David M. Kennedy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics

   Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the exercise of...

   Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
4. Political Economy of Illegal Drugs

   By Pierre Kopp

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics

   With debates surrounding the decriminalisation of certain illegal drugs raging in many countries around the world, this new book is a timely and sober reflection on one of the biggest social problems facing the world at large. Of interest not only to economists, but also to criminologists and those...

   Published November 19th 2003 by Routledge