The Private Sector and Organized Crime Criminal Entrepreneurship, Illicit Profits, and Private Sector Security Governance

1. Theorizing the Linkages between the Private Sector and Organized Crime, Yuliya Zabyelina; 2. A Review of Methods in Research on Organized Crime Infiltration of Legitimate Businesses, Francesca M. Calamunci; 3. Organized Crime and the Haulage Sector  Livia Wagner and Lucia Bird Ruiz Benitez de Lugo; 4. Private Port Authorities and Organized Crime, Luca Storti, Anna Sergi, and Yuliya Zabyelina; 5. Information Technology and Communications Providers’ Measures against Organized Crime, Marie-Helen Maras; 6. Organized Crime and the Hydrocarbons Industry. David Soud; 7. Trafficking in Persons and the Hotel Industry, Yuliya Zabyelina and Thi Hoang; 8. Organized Crime in the Waste Management Industry, Serena Favarin and Kimberley L. Thachuk; 9. Organized Crime in the Fisheries Sector, Gohar A. Petrossian, Kimberley L. Thachuk, and Yuliya Zabyelina; 10. Organized Forest Crimes: Charcoal and Timber Trade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Daan P. Van Uhm, Milou Tjoonk, and Eliode Bakole; 11. Organized Crime in the Agri-food Industry, Alice Rizzuti; 12. Organized Crime and the Retail Sector, Marco Dugato and Caterina Paternoster; 13. Organized Crime Money Laundering through Online Gambling Businesses in Great Britain, Peter Duncan and Nicholas Lord; 14. Private Art Businesses and Organized Crime, Donna Yates and Christoph Rausch; 15. Organized Crime and the Pharmaceutical Industry, Yuliya Zabyelina and Stephen Noguera; 16. Organized Crime and Tobacco Companies, Jay P. Kennedy; 17. Organized Crime and the Private Security Industry, Anja P. Jakobi; 18. Private Sector Criminal Risk Assessment and Risk Management, Phil Williams and Colin P. Clarke

Biography

Yuliya Zabyelina is Associate Professor of International Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), USA.

Kimberley L. Thachuk is a senior analyst and educator focusing on transnational security issues, including corruption; organized crime and terrorism; human, drug, and arms trafficking; and environment, health, and energy.

An important collection of innovative research and analysis on the two-way relationship between organized crime and legitimate business. Exploitation by organized crime is shown to have consequences in both the legitimate and illicit sectors with insights provided in this volume to anticipate and reduce future harms across the many products and services where organized crime and the private sector meet.

Jay Albanese
Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

　

This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the worlds of business, crime and politics intersect.　More importantly it demonstrates the devastating impacts of illicit markets on the economy, and on societies the world over. Through diverse sectoral analyses it shows why it is imperative to up our game in a more strategic and holistic way. An indispensable policy tool.

Mark Shaw

Director of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC)

An important collection of innovative research and analysis on the two-way relationship between organized crime and legitimate business. Exploitation by organized crime is shown to have consequences in both the legitimate and illicit sectors with insights provided in this volume to anticipate and reduce future harms across the many products and services where organized crime and the private sector meet.

Jay Albanese
Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

　

This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the worlds of business, crime and politics intersect.　More importantly it demonstrates the devastating impacts of illicit markets on the economy, and on societies the world over. Through diverse sectoral analyses it shows why it is imperative to up our game in a more strategic and holistic way. An indispensable policy tool.

Mark Shaw

Director of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC)