Organized Crime Books

New and Published Books

1. Crime-Terror Alliances and the State

   Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security

   By Lyubov Mincheva, Ted Robert Gurr

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate. "Unholy alliances" is a term used to describe hybrid trans-border militant and criminal networks that pose serious threats to security in...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. Somalia: State Collapse, Terrorism and Piracy

   Edited by Brian Hesse

   The situation in Somalia today embodies some of the most pressing issues in international relations. How should the international community deal with the collapsed state that is Somalia? From the presence of al-Qaeda operatives to pirates, to what extent is Somalia a threat to global peace and...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. Intersections of Crime and Terror

   Edited by James J.F. Forest

   During the last ten years an increasing number of government and media reports, scholarly books and journal articles, and other publications have focused our attention on the expanded range of interactions between international organized crime and terrorist networks. A majority of these...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. Organised Sexual Abuse

   By Michael Salter

   Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups or networks. These allegations have been...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas

   The Gangs and Cartels Wage War

   Edited by Robert Bunker

   In recent years, the south-western border of the United States has come under increasing pressure from the activities of Mexican narco-insurgents. These insurgents have developed rapidly from beginnings as nebulous gangs into networked cartels that have exposed the porosity of the border. These...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
6. Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe

   A Multilevel Perspective

   Edited by Diana Schmidt-Pfister, Holger Moroff

   Anti-corruption programmes, projects and campaigns have come to constitute an essential aspect of good governance promotion over the last two decades. The post-communist countries in Eastern Europe have presented one of the first key targets of transnational anti-corruption efforts, and indeed most...

   Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
7. Corruption and Organized Crime in Europe

   Illegal partnerships

   By Philip Gounev, Vincenzo Ruggiero

   Series: Organizational Crime

   In Corruption and Organised Crime in Europe, Gounev and Ruggiero present a discussion of the relation between organized criminals and corruption in the EU’s 27 Member States. The book draws on research and scholarly work the editors carried out, respectively, within the Center for the Study of...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. Fear and Crime in Latin America

   Redefining State-Society Relations

   By Lucía Dammert

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   The feeling of insecurity is a little known phenomenon that has been only partially explored by social sciences. However, it has a deep social, cultural and economic impact and may even contribute to define the very structures of the state. In Latin America, fear of crime has become an important...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
9. Illegal Markets and the Economics of Organized Crime

   Edited by Martin Bouchard, Chris Wilkins

   This book showcases recent advances in the theoretical and empirical understanding of the economic aspects of organised crime and illegal markets. It provides new insights into defining and quantifying the influence of organised crime by drawing on innovative approaches to studying criminal...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
10. Transnational Crime and Human Rights

    Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion

    By Susan Kneebone, Julie Debeljak

    Transnational Crime and Human Rights offers an evaluation of the responses to the transnational crime of human trafficking and governance of the issue through a case study of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic...

    Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge