Global Organized Crime

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Henk van de Bunt, Dina Siegel

   Pages 3-5

3. Recent Trends in Cocaine Trafficking in the Netherlands and Spain

   • Damian Zaitch

   Pages 7-17

4. Ecstasy in Israel and Abroad

   • Menachem Amir

   Pages 19-23

5. The War Against Drugs and the Interests of Governments

   • Alain Labrousse

   Pages 25-31

6. Illicit Drugs in the Andes Five Years After Ungass-98

   • Francisco E. Thoumi

   Pages 33-44

7. Organized Crime in Former Yugoslavia

   • Frank Bovenkerk

   Pages 45-50

8. The Transnational Russian Mafia

   • Dina Siegel

   Pages 51-62

9. The Russian and Polish Mafia in Central Europe

   • Emil W. Pływaczewski

   Pages 63-72

10. Natashas and Turkish Men: New Trends in Women Trafficking and Prostitution

    • Dina Siegel, Yucel Yesilgoz

    Pages 73-83

11. Trafficking in Human Beings: An International Perspective

    • Alexis Aronowitz

    Pages 85-95

12. The Social Organisation of Human Trafficking

    • Edward Kleemans, H.G. van de Bunt

    Pages 97-104

13. Smuggling Aliens Toward the Netherlands: the Role of Human Smugglers and Transnational Networks

    • Richard Staring

    Pages 105-116

14. Organising Financial Crimes: Breaking the Economic Power of Organised Crime Groups?

    • Dr Michael Levi

    Pages 117-126

15. Quicksand; the ‘Proceeds-of-Crime-Approach’.

    • Hans Nelen

    Pages 127-135

16. The Effects of Terrorism on Crime Patterns in Society: The Case of Israel

    • Simha F Landau

    Pages 137-148

17. Financial Controls of Terrorism and Informal Value Transfer Methods

    • Nikos Passas

    Pages 149-158

18. ‘The Ties That Bind’: Uncovering the Relationship Between Organised Crime and Terrorism

    • Tamara Makarenko

    Pages 159-192

19. Back Matter

    Pages 193-201

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In the current processes of political, economic and cultural changes serious cross-border forms of organized crime receive unprecedented attention as spectacular global media events, as 'threats' of all sorts, and as priority targets of criminal policy and political agendas. Most books on 'global organized crime' focus on one particular region, topic or event, and are written from one specific theoretical and disciplinary framework.
The renowned scholars who have contributed to this volume present up-to-date expertise on regions as distant and different as Russia, Colombia, the Netherlands, Israel, Peru and Britain. They tackle phenomena such as international drug trafficking, alien and women smuggling, terrorism, East European organized crime and financial crimes. They show not only how these issues are interrelated, but also the way in which they interact with social, economic and political legitimate structures. The contributors critically question the policies and strategies currently pursued. They explore different theoretical arguments from the perspective of their own disciplines, which include economics, criminology, political science and anthropology.

• Crime
• Crime Pattern
• Criminology
• Mafia
• Nation
• Transnational
• drugs

• Center for Information and Research on Organized Crime (CIROC) and Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Dina Siegel

• Center for Information and Research on Organized Crime (CIROC) and Free University Amsterdam/Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  Henk Bunt

• Center for Information and Research on Organized Crime (CIROC) and Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  Damián Zaitch

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