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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265137503321

Titolo

Transnational organized crime : analyses of a global challenge to democracy / / edited by Regine Schönenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-8394-2495-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Edition Politik ; 17

Disciplina

364.106

Soggetti

Democracy

Organized crime

Transnational crime - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

International conference proceedings.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1  Contents    5  Preface    9  I. Introduction    11  1. Money Laundering: Motives, Methods, Impact, and Countermeasures    17  2. What Do a Tax Evader and a Money Launderer have in Common? The Role of Secrecy in the Financial Sector    35  3. "People should not be punished for being honest!"    41  4. Organized Crime in Cyberspace    47  5. Judicial and Social Conditions for the Containment of Organized Crime: A Best Practice Account    61  1. INTRODUCTION    75  2.1 TWO SIDES OF A COIN? STATEBUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME NETWORKS IN AFGHANISTAN    77  2.2 "MIRED IN DECEPTION" - NARCOTICS AND POLITICS IN AFGHANISTAN    91  2.3 HOW TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN AFGHANISTAN: A COMMUNITY PROJECT EXAMPLE    109  3.1 BLACK ECONOMY IN INDIA AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME: UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY    115  4.1 ORGANIZED AND TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN WEST AFRICA    127  5.1 FROM APARTHEID TO 2020: THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZED CRIMINAL NETWORKS IN SOUTH AFRICA    145  6.1 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE WAR AGAINST DRUGS IN MEXICO    149  6.2 Extortion in Everyday Life in Mexico    161  6.3 CIVIL SOCIETY'S STRATEGIES TO CONFRONT GROWING INSECURITY AND VIOLENCE IN MEXICO    169  7.1 VIOLENCE AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN BRAZIL: THE CASE OF "MILITIAS" IN RIO DE JANEIRO    179  7.2 ROOTS OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE AMAZON    



189  7.3 IF THE MPF WOULD NOT GO FOR IT, WHO WILL?    199  7.4 UNHOLY ALLIANCES OR CREATIVE PROCESSES? SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACHES POINT OUT NEW WAYS TOWARD LOCAL HARM REDUCTION    203  8.1 A "BLACK HOLE" IN EUROPE? THE SOCIAL AND DISCURSIVE REALITY OF CRIME IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S TACIT COMPLICITY    211  8.2 TRAFFICKING IN ORGANS, TISSUES, AND CELLS IS SOMETIMES PART OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING    233  9.1 ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION - NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES    239  10.1 CIVIL SOCIETY'S ROLE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE 'NDRANGHETA    267  10.2 AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO COMBAT THE MAFIA: CONFISCATION OF CRIMINAL ASSETS    277  11.1 THE MAFIA AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN GERMANY    285  IV. Outlook    295  ABBREVIATIONS    297  Authors    299

Sommario/riassunto

Transnational organized crime interferes with the everyday lives of more and more people - and represents a serious threat to democracy. By now, organized crime has become an inherent feature of economic globalization, and the fine line between the legal and illegal operation of business networks is blurred. Additionally, few experts could claim to have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the laws and regulations governing the international flow of trade, and hence of the borderline towards criminal transactions.  This book offers contributions from 12 countries around the world authored by 25 experts from a wide range of academic disciplines, representatives from civil society organizations and private industry, journalists, as well as activists. Recognizing the complexity of the issue, this publication provides a cross cultural and multi-disciplinary analysis of transnational organized crime including a historical approach from different regional and cultural contexts.  Conception: Regine Schönenberg and Annette von Schönfeld.

»Insgesamt vermittelt der Band [...] trotz oder gerade wegen der zahlreichen Perspektiven auf das Thema ein Verständnis für die Vielschichtigkeit des Problems und die Notwendigkeit umfassenderer Ansätze.«  Christian Patz, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 09.04.2015    »Es ist die nüchterne, wissenschaftliche Analyse und ihre Sprache, die die Problematik so eindringlich präsentiert und beweist, dass die Organisierte Kriminalität weltweit keine marginale Erscheinung ist und konsequentes, gemeinsames Handeln erfordert - auch in Deutschland.«  Europäische Sicherheit & Technik, 3 (2014)    »Das Buch bietet einen guten Einstieg in die Thematik und liest sich sehr abwechslungsreich.«  Alexander Kamprad, http://criminologia.de/www.surveillance-studies.org, 1 (2014)    »The broad range of perspectives and multi-professional approach are refreshing and fit well into the editors mission to focus on features of TOC that are not generally brought into conversation with each other.«  Nicholas Dietrich, H-Soz-u-Kult, 06.12.2013    Reviewed in:    taz, 20.06.2013, Wolf-Dieter Vogel