Organized Crime and Illicit Trade

How to Respond to This Strategic Challenge in Old and New Domains
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-72967-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 143 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 333 g

Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict regions, amount to strategic challenges for the state. Whereas most commentators would agree that criminal activities are harmful, this volume addresses the questions of ‘how?’, ‘for whom?’ and, controversially, ‘are they always harmful?’

The volume is authored by experts with multi-year experience analysing criminal and other non-state activities. They do so through different lenses - conflict and security, development, and technology - engaging academics, practitioners and policy makers. 
They offer a comprehensive integrated response to the challenges of transnational organised crime beyond traditional law-enforcement driven recommendations.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Comolli, Virginia

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A strategic challenge - Virginia Comolli.- Chapter One: The threat of illicit economies and the complex relations with state and society - Vanda Felbab-Brown.- Chapter Two: Organised crime as a threat to sustainable development: Understanding the evidence - Tuesday Reitano.- Chapter Three: IT and cyber capabilities as a force multiplier for transnational crime - Camino Kavanagh.- Chapter Four: Measuring illicit trade and its wider impact - Karl Lallerstedt.- Chapter Five: Catalysing and evaluating development responses to organised crime - Tuesday Reitano.- Chapter Six: A state-building response to organised crime, illicit economies, hybrid threats, and hybrid governance - Vanda Felbab-Brown.- Conclusion - Virginia Comolli.

Über Autor(innen)

Virginia Comolli is Senior Fellow for Security and Development at The International Institute for Strategic StudiesVanda Felbab-Brown is a Senior Fellow at the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution.Camino Kavanagh is an international consultant and Advisor to the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Cyber Security and ICT4 Peace Foundation.Karl Lallerstedt is Programme Director for Illicit Trade, Financial and Economic Crime at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and co-founder of Black Market Watch.Tuesday Reitano is Deputy Director of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.