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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814722103321

Titolo

Global crime today : the changing face of organized crime / / edited by Mark Galeotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-315-82429-9

1-317-83443-7

1-317-83444-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GaleottiMark

Disciplina

364.1060973

364.106

Soggetti

Organized crime - United States

Globalization - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction Global Crime Today; 1 North American Organised Crime; 2 Italian Organised Crime: Mafia Associations and Criminal Enterprises; 3 Globalisation and Latin American and Caribbean Organised Crime; 4 The Russian 'Mafiya': Consolidation and Globalisation; 5 Organised Crime in East Central Europe: The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland; 6 Chinese Organised Crime; 7 The Changing Face of the Yakuza; 8 State Crime: The North Korean Drug Trade

9 The Crime-Terror Continuum: Tracing the Interplay between Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism10 The Global Dimension of Cybercrime; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Crime is recognized as a constant factor within human society, but in the twenty-first century organized crime is emerging as one of the distinctive security threats of the new world order. The more complex, organized and interconnected society becomes, its crime becomes too. This book recognizes that the new century will be defined in part by a struggle between an 'upperworld', defined by increasingly open economic systems and democratic politics, and a transnational,



entrepreneurial, dynamic and richly varied underworld, willing and able to use and distort these trends for i