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Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime

Transnational organized crime crosses borders, challenges states, exploits individuals, pursues profit, wrecks economies, destroys civil society, and ultimately weakens global democracy. It is a phenomenon that is all too often misunderstood and misrepresented. This handbook attempts to redress the balance by providing a fresh and interdisciplinary overview of the problems which transnational organized crime represents. The innovative aspect of this handbook is not only its interdisciplinary nature but also the dialogue between international academics and practitioners that it presents.

The handbook seeks to provide the definitive overview of transnational organized crime, including contributions from leading international scholars as well as emerging researchers. The work starts by examining the origins, concepts, contagion and evolution of transnational organized crime and then moves on to discuss the impact, governance and reactions of governments and their agencies, before looking to the future of transnational organized crime, and how the state will seek to respond.

Providing a cutting-edge survey of the discipline, this work will be essential reading for all those with an interest in this dangerous phenomenon.

Felia Allum is a lecturer in politics at the University of Bath, UK. Her research interests are organized crime and Italian and European politics. She has published various articles on these topics in English, French and Italian academic journals as well her book, Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen: The Transformation of Organized Crime in Post-war Naples (Northern Universities Press 2006). She is co-covenor of the ECPR standing group on organized crime and a founding associate editor of the journal Global Crime.

Stan Gilmour is a senior investigating officer with Thames Valley Police, UK, and the regional lead for kidnap and extortion investigations. His research interests are focused on policing and include the role of trust, equality, and fairness in service delivery, and on examining the policing response to organized criminals. He has published articles on these topics in academic journals.

Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime

Edited by Felia Allum and Stan Gilmour

First published 2012
by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Routledge handbook of transnational organized crime / edited by Felia Allum and Stan Gilmour.

p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Transnational crime. 2. Organized crime. I. Allum, Felia, 1971- II. Gilmour, Stan.
HV6252.R695 2011
364.106--dc22
2011015563

ISBN: 978-0-415-57979-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-69834-1 (ebk)

For Phoebe
For Marie Pierrette and Percy

Contents

Felia Allum and Stan Gilmour

PART I
Theories, concepts, definitions and laws

Helena Carrapio

Petrus C. van Duyne and Mark D. H. Nelemans

William J. Chambliss and Elizabeth Williams

Joseph Wheatley

PART II
Origins and manifestations

Tom Vander Beken

Michael Woodiwiss

Serguei Cheloukhine

Stephen Ellis

Roderic Broadhurst, Sandy Gordon and John McFarlane

Roderic Broadhurst

PART III
Contagion and evolution

Tim Hall

Klaus von Lampe

Michael Kenney

Alexis A. Aronowitz

Tamara Makarenko

Dick Hobbs and Sue Hobbs

Margaret E. Beare

PART IV
Intensity and impact

Kelly Hignett

Paddy Rawlinson

Jana Arsovska

Alessandra Dino

Jason Pine

PART V
Governance

Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider

Clive Harfield

Leanne Weber and Michael Grewcock

Dawn L. Rothe and Jeffrey Ian Ross

Angela Gendron

Monica den Boer

Mark Bishop

Robert J. Kelly and Sharona A. Levy

PART VI
Reaction and future

Stan Gilmour and Robert France

Armando DAlterio

Benjamin Goold

Alexandra V. Orlova

David A. Marvelli and James O. Finckenauer

Wayne Snell

Illustrations

Maps

Tables

Figures

Foreword

Political Science and Transnational Organized Crime: What is the Connection?

Organized crime, including political corruption, has long been considered a marginal topic of interest in political science and sociology, and gladly left to the criminologists. Indeed, for a long time, a tacit assumption was made that organized crime was, with some rare exceptions, not to be found in the advanced democracies that political scientists and sociologists studied.

The rare academic studies that did address the interaction or interplay between politics and organized crime concentrated, in fact, on a few cases that were highlighted as interesting, if not exotic and anomalies. The common examples were the machine politics in pre-reform local government in the United States and the Mafias in Italy and Japan.

The functionalist approach explained these cases in terms of reflecting temporary steps, momentary dysfunctions in the development of modern societies. Political corruption, in particular, was considered a form of adaptation of the delayed development of political parties combined with rapid immigration and urbanization and the ensuing needs to socialize large masses to modern values; in other words, the late construction of the state. The general assumption was that state building and democratization would eventually defeat these pathologies, and that corruption would also therefore soon disappear.

In the field of political corruption, and of organized crime more broadly, these expectations proved to be too optimistic. In different forms and to varying degrees, organized crime seems indeed to adapt to democratization and modernization. Rather than disappearing, it often mutates and even grows, taking advantage of new trends, such as the weakening of political parties, the implementation of neoliberal privatization which in turn links to other occasions for illegal profits the retrenchment of the welfare state and the related reduction of citizens rights. In other words, globalization, in all its varying and different forms, has contributed to the development of transnational organized crime which is presented and analysed in this handbook.

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