03239oam 2200745 a 450 991097120370332120200520144314.097984006578709786612408298978128240829612824082919780313051982031305198410.5040/9798400657870(CKB)1000000000451750(EBL)497248(OCoLC)60035307(SSID)ssj0000163634(PQKBManifestationID)11924452(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000163634(PQKBWorkID)10116855(PQKB)10826371(Au-PeEL)EBL497248(CaPaEBR)ebr10349440(CaONFJC)MIL240829(MiAaPQ)EBC497248(DLC)BP9798400657870BC(Perlego)4168453(EXLCZ)99100000000045175020240214e20042024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe global underworld transnational crime and the United States /Donald R. Liddick1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger,2004.London :Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),20241 online resource (170 p.)International and comparative criminologyDescription based upon print version of record.9780275980740 027598074X Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-154) and index.Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Principal Transnational Crime Groups Affecting the United States and Canada; Chapter 3 Smuggling, Transnational Theft, and ""Eco-Crime""; Chapter 4 Money Laundering and Other Financial Crimes; Chapter 5 Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction; Chapter 6 Responding to Transnational Organized Crime; Chapter 7 Summary and Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; IndexTransnational crime is an increasing national security threat to the United States and to individual citizens around the world. Criminal groups both in the United Staes and abroad operate crime cartels that span national boundaries, but in ways that affect all Americans, and wreak havoc on law enforcement organizations as well as businesses and other entities, such as the stock market. More often than not, transnational crime takes the form of organized crime, and in its many forms is responsible for over-priced goods, unsafe products, environmental hazards, corruption of public officials, theInternational and comparative criminology.Organized crimeOrganized crimeUnited StatesTransnational crimeTransnational crimeUnited StatesPreventionOrganized crime.Organized crimeTransnational crime.Transnational crimePrevention.364.1/06/0973Liddick Don1465253DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910971203703321The global underworld4336234UNINA