2nd Edition
Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime
This fully revised new edition provides a definitive and holistic overview of Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in a world in which right wing populism has gained ground, trade wars are increasing, climate change is a reality and Covid poses a challenge for years to come.
Updated to reflect the changing world environment, the book includes new chapters on issues such as criminal network analysis, environmental crime, cybercrime, people smuggling, drugs activities in the modern world, the relationship between organized crime and corruption, anti-organized crime resilience and the effectiveness of the fight against organized crime. New country case studies have also been included. The handbook is presented in six sections:
• Concepts, theories and laws
• Origins and manifestations
• Contagion and evolution
• Intensity and impact
• Governance
• Reaction and future
Truly interdisciplinary in nature, the handbook features contributions from an international team of experts, working in different academic disciplines and within varied law enforcement agencies. It will appeal to scholars, policymakers and practitioners in International Law, Global Governance, International Political Economy and Security Studies.
Introduction
Felia Allum and Stan Gilmour
PART I Concepts, theories and laws
Chapter 1 Reflections on Transnational organized crime as a security concept
Helena Farrand Carrapico
Chapter 2 Transnational criminal networks
David Bright and Aadrian Leiva
Chapter 3 Transnational organized crime: a survey of laws, policies and international conventions
Joseph Wheatley
PART II Origins and manifestations
Chapter 4 The many faces of organized crime in Europe and its assessment.
Tom Vander Beken and Jelle Janssens
Chapter 5 The past and present of transnational organized crime in America
Michael Woodiwiss and Mary Young
Chapter 6 Transnational organized crime and corruption in Russia
Serguei Cheloukhine, Vitaliy Khan and Nessibeli Kalkaeva
Chapter 7 Nigerian organized crime
Stephen Ellis
Chapter 8 Vietnamese organized crime
David Silverstone
Chapter 9 Black societies and triad-like organized crime in China
Roderick Broadhurst and Lena Zhong
PART III Contagion and Evolution
Chapter 10 The economic geographies of transnational organised crime
Tim Hall and Rod Hudson
Chapter 11 The practice of transnational organized crime
Klaus Von Lampe
Chapter 12 Horizon scanning of global drug markets
James Windle
Chapter 13 The human trafficking-organised crime nexus
Alexis A Aronowitz and M. E Veldhuizen
Chapter 14 Foundations and evolution of the crime-terror nexus
Tamara Makarenko
Chapter 15 Transnational organised environmental crime
Lieselot Bisschop and Karin van Wingerde
Chapter 16 Responding to transnational organized crimes: ‘follow the money’
Margaret Beare
Part IV Intensity and Impact
Chapter 17 Transnational organised crime and the global village
Kelly Hignett
Chapter 18 Cybercrime and transnational organised criminal activity
David Wall
Chapter 19 Ethnicity, mobility and transnational organized crime
Jana Arsovska
Chapter 20 Women and transnational organized crime: the ambiguous case of the Italian mafias
Alessandra Dino
Part V Governance
Chapter 21 Italians mafias and the Antimafia movement
Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider
Chapter 22 Human rights and the policing of transnational organized crime
Robert Currie and Sarah Douglas
Chapter 23 Rethinking migrant smuggling through data
Gabriella Sanchez
Chapter 24 The State Before Criminal Firearms
Alessandra Russo and Francesco Buscemi
Chapter 25 ‘Cyber’ – the ‘Digital’ Gold for Nigerian criminals
Sheelagh Brady
Chapter 26 Go with the Flow and Undo the Knots: ‘Nodal’ Policing Against TOC
Monica Den Boer
Chapter 27 Corruption and transnational organised crime
Heather Marquette and Caryn Peiffer
PART VI Reaction and Future
Chapter 28 Community resilience to organized crime: building back better
Siria Gastelum and Ian Tennant
Chapter 29 The fight against transnational organised crime in Italy: What can we learn?
Armando D’Alterio and Attilio Scaglione
Chapter 30 The European Union and its strategy against Serious transnational crime (2021-2025)
Cyrille Fijnaut
Chapter 31 The fight against transnational organized crime in Russia
Alesandra Orlova
Chapter 32 The threat of harm by transnational organized criminals: a US perspective
David A. Marvelli and James O. Finckenauer
Chapter 33 The global fight against TOC: evolution of approaches and their effectiveness
Mark Shaw and Tuesday Reitano
Biography
Felia Allum is Senior Lecturer in politics and Italian at the University of Bath, UK, and currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2018-2022).
Stan Gilmour holds a degree in criminology and politics and an MSc in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Oxford, UK. He is Senior Police Officer at Thames Valley Police, UK, and has led serious and complex criminal investigations and worked on capacity-building programmes in the UK and overseas.
