Global Organized Crime and International Security

Abstract

Part 1 Transnational organized crime - the globalization of crime: the evolution of espionage networks and the crisis of international terrorism and global organized crime, Joseph L. Albini et al the European Union and organized crime - fighting a new enemy with many tentacles, Monica Den Boer confronting transnational crime, Peter Martin. Part 2 The case studies: the infiltration of organized crime in Emilia-Romagna region - possible interpretations for a new social defence, Augusto Balloni et al transnational organized crime in Spain - structural factors explaining its penetration, Carlos Resa-Nestares global organized crime in Latvia and the Baltics, Andrejs Vilks and Dainis Bergmanis opening and closing the 49th parallel - responses to free trade and to trans-border crime in Canada since 1989, Ian Taylor contested jurisdiction border communities and cross-border crime - the case Akwesasne, Ruth Jamieson the use of the shining path myth in the context of the all-out war against the narco-guerilla', Rodolfo Mendoza Nakamura organized crime in Russia - domestic and international problems, Yakov Gilinskiy regionalism and expansion - the growth of organized crime in East Siberia, Anna L. Repetskaya alienation and female criminality - the case of Puerto Rico, Zuleika Vidal Rodriguez. Part 3 Public policy and interventions: criminal financial investigations - a strategic and tactical approach in the European dimension, Petrus C. Van Duyne and Mike Levi Mafia-type organizations - the restoration of rights as a preventive policy, Maria Luisa Cesoni repeal drug prohibition and end the financing of international crime, Arthur Berney the criminal justice system facing the challenges of organized crime, Emilio Vanio.