1st Edition

Intersections of Crime and Terror

Edited By James J.F. Forest Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

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 interactions have been in the form of temporary organizational alliances (or customer-supplier relationships)... Read more

1. Criminals and Terrorists: An Introduction  James J.F. Forest, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Joint Special Operations University

2. Osama bin Corleone? Vito the Jackal? Framing Threat Convergence through an Examination of Transnational Organized Crime and International Terrorism  John T. Picarelli, National Institutes of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice

3. When Politicians Sell Drugs: Examining Why Middle East Ethnopolitical Organizations are Involved in the Drug Trade Victor Asal, State University of New York Albany, Kathleen Deloughery, State University of New York Albany and Brian J. Phillips, University of Pittsburgh

4. The Opium Trade and Patterns of Terrorism in the Provinces of Afghanistan: An Empirical Analysis  James Piazza, Pennsylvania State University

5. Surreptitious Lifelines: A Comparative Analysis of the FARC and the PKK  Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena College

6. The Terrorism Debate Over Mexican Drug Trafficking Violence  Phil Williams, University of Pittsburgh

7. Terrorists Next Door? A Comparison of Mexican Drug Cartels and Middle Eastern Terrorist Organizations  Shawn Teresa Flanigan, San Diego State University

8. Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Criminal Attacks by Radical Environmental and Animal Rights Groups in the United States, 1970-2007  Jennifer Varriale Carson, University of Central Missouri, Gary LaFree, University of Maryland and Laura Dugan, University of Maryland

9. Fluctuations Between Crime and Terror: The Case of Abu Sayyaf’s Kidnapping Activities  McKenzie O’Brien, University of Pittsburgh

10. Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Crime and Terror  Thomas J. Holt, Michigan State University

Biography

James J. F. Forest is associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and senior fellow at Joint Special Operations University. He is the former director of terrorism studies at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, and has published dozens of books, articles and commentary about terrorism and counterterrorism.