Transnational Organized Crime : Analyses of a Global Challenge to Democracy (Conception: Regine Schönenberg and Annette von Schönfeld) /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schönenberg, Regine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2013]
Colección:Edition Politik ; 17
Temas:
Social sciences > Sociology > Sociology, other.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization.
Corruption.
Democracy.
Globalization.
Human Trafficking.
International Relations.
Mafia.
Money Laundering.
Narcotics.
Political Science.
Politics.
Sociology of Crime.
Violence.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. Money Laundering: Motives, Methods, Impact, and Countermeasures / Jojarth, Christine
  • 2. What Do a Tax Evader and a Money Launderer have in Common? The Role of Secrecy in the Financial Sector
  • 3. "People should not be punished for being honest!"
  • 4. Organized Crime in Cyberspace / Tropina, Tatiana
  • 5. Judicial and Social Conditions for the Containment of Organized Crime: A Best Practice Account / Buscaglia, Edgardo
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2.1 TWO SIDES OF A COIN? STATEBUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME NETWORKS IN AFGHANISTAN / Kühn, Florian P.
  • 2.2 "MIRED IN DECEPTION"
  • NARCOTICS AND POLITICS IN AFGHANISTAN / Reuter, Christoph
  • 2.3 HOW TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN AFGHANISTAN: A COMMUNITY PROJECT EXAMPLE
  • 3.1 BLACK ECONOMY IN INDIA AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME: UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY / Kumar, Arun
  • 4.1 ORGANIZED AND TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN WEST AFRICA / Alemika, Etannibi E.O.
  • 5.1 FROM APARTHEID TO 2020: THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZED CRIMINAL NETWORKS IN SOUTH AFRICA
  • 6.1 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE WAR AGAINST DRUGS IN MEXICO / Reveles, José
  • 6.2 Extortion in Everyday Life in Mexico / Klahr, Marco Lara
  • 6.3 CIVIL SOCIETY'S STRATEGIES TO CONFRONT GROWING INSECURITY AND VIOLENCE IN MEXICO / Spiller, Ingrid
  • 7.1 VIOLENCE AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN BRAZIL: THE CASE OF "MILITIAS" IN RIO DE JANEIRO / Cano, Ignacio
  • 7.2 ROOTS OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE AMAZON / Schönenberg, Regine
  • 7.3 IF THE MPF WOULD NOT GO FOR IT, WHO WILL?
  • 7.4 UNHOLY ALLIANCES OR CREATIVE PROCESSES? SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACHES POINT OUT NEW WAYS TOWARD LOCAL HARM REDUCTION / Hees, Wolfgang
  • 8.1 A "BLACK HOLE" IN EUROPE? THE SOCIAL AND DISCURSIVE REALITY OF CRIME IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S TACIT COMPLICITY / Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit
  • 8.2 TRAFFICKING IN ORGANS, TISSUES, AND CELLS IS SOMETIMES PART OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
  • 9.1 ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION
  • NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES / Hetzer, Wolfgang
  • 10.1 CIVIL SOCIETY'S ROLE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE 'NDRANGHETA / La Camera, Claudio
  • 10.2 AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO COMBAT THE MAFIA: CONFISCATION OF CRIMINAL ASSETS / Bodrero, Lorenzo
  • 11.1 THE MAFIA AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN GERMANY / Roth, Jürgen
  • IV. Outlook
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • Authors.

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