Organized Crime and Corruption Across Borders
This book explores Chinas Belt and Road Initiative and the criminogenic potential for economic, financial, and socio-cultural cooperation across countries, where some are known for weak law enforcement and high levels of corruption. It examines whether these flows of capital are increasing the amount of organized crime in the newly linked regions and how law enforcement agencies are responding.
Bringing together experts across the Global South and Europe, this book considers transnational organized crime and corruption across One Belt One Road (OBOR). It examines crime and corruption in China and its international United Front tactic; analyzes various forms of transnational organized crime such as trafficking of illegal drugs, looted antiquities, and wildlife and counterfeit products; and presents studies on corruption and organized crime in selected OBOR countries including Russia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, and Bangladesh.
This book makes a significant contribution to the development of southern criminology and will also be of interest to those engaged with transnational organized crime, political economy, international relations, and Asian and Chinese studies.
T. Wing Lo is Head and Professor of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in criminology from the University of Cambridge (1991). He formerly worked with Chinese triad gangs and was invited to address the UN delegates attending the Palermo Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (2010) and officials of the US Department of Defense (2015).
Dina Siegel is Professor of Criminology and Chair of the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University. She has conducted research on transnational organized crime, human smuggling and trafficking, crimes of mobility, Russian mafia and other East European criminal organizations, crime in the diamond industry, and various activities of Asian organized crime in the European Union.
Sharon I. Kwok is Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, specializing in the study of triad society and Chinese organized crime. She received a BA, MSc, and PhD in criminology from the University of Hull (2001), London School of Economics (2004), and City University of Hong Kong (2017), respectively.
Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South
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Russell Hogg
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Crime and justice studies, as with much social science, has concentrated mainly on problems in the metropolitan centres of the Global North, while Asia and the Global South have remained largely invisible in criminological thinking. This research series aims to redress this imbalance by showcasing exciting new ways of thinking and doing crime and justice research from the global periphery.
Bringing together scholarly work from a range of disciplines, from criminology, law, and sociology to psychology, cultural geography and comparative social sciences, this series offers grounded empirical research and fresh theoretical approaches and cover a range of pressing topics, including international corruption, drug use, environmental issues, sex work, organized crime, innovative models of justice, and punishment and penology.
Punishment in Contemporary China
Its Evolution, Development and Change
Enshen Li
Criminal Legalities in the Global South
Cultural Dynamics, Political Tensions, and Institutional Practices
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Organized Crime and Corruption Across Borders
Exploring the Belt and Road Initiative
Edited by T. Wing Lo, Dina Siegel, and Sharon I. Kwok
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Contents
T. WING LO, DINA SIEGEL, AND SHARON I. KWOK
PART A
China 1990 to 2018
T. WING LO
T. WING LO, LI LI, AND SHARON I. KWOK
DANIEL GARRETT
PART B
Transnational crime along the Belt and Road
RODERIC BROADHURST
SIMON MACKENZIE AND DONNA YATES
DAAN VAN UHM
REBECCA W. Y. WONG
PART C
Organized crime and corruption in OBOR countries
YAKOV GILINSKIY AND DINA SIEGEL
DINA SIEGEL AND ZHANIYA TURLUBEKOVA
ALGIMANTAS EPAS AND ALEKSANDRAS DOBRYNINAS
MIROSLAV SCHEINOST
EMIL W. PYWACZEWSKI
A. B. M. NAJMUS SAKIB
T. WING LO AND DANIEL GARRETT
Guide
Roderic Broadhurst is Professor of Criminology, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), and Fellow, Research School of Asian and the Pacific and Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (ANU). He was formerly the Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council, Center of Excellence in Policing and Security, ANU, Head of the School of Justice (Queensland University of Technology 20052008) and Associate Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (19992004; board 2012present) and Foundation Editor of the Asian Journal of Criminology (2005). His recent book is Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia (2015).
Algimantas epas is an associate professor in law at the Department of Criminology of Vilnius University. He acquired his PhD in law from Vilnius University in 2002. Since then, he has held a number of important positions in both academia and legal institutions of Lithuania, including positions of an advisor to the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania, the chairman of the Transparency International Lithuanian Chapter, and a member of the Judicial Ethics and Discipline Commission. His primary research interests lay in the fields of human rights, criminal law, criminology, public ethics, and anti-corruption.
