This unique text explores the expansive topic of transnational organized crime, incorporating expert perspectives found throughout the world’s six inhabited continents: North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Editors Jay S. Albanese and Philip L. Reichel gather the knowledge and expertise of numerous authors, researchers, and practitioners in this field who are either native to each world region, have extensively travelled and worked there, or are recognized scholars for those regions. Through this text, readers will begin to understand the geographic, cultural, and regional similarities and differences underying the common threat of transnational organized crime, as well as how to address the global expansion of organized crime today.
Table of Content
Introduction
Chapter 1. Transnational Organized Crime Networks Across the World – Jan van Dijk and Toine Spapens
Chapter 2. Transnational Organized Crime in North America – James O. Finckenauer and Jay Albanese
Chapter 3. Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America – Mary Fran T. Malone and Christine B. Malone-Rowe
Chapter 4. Transnational Organized Crime in Europe – Klaus von Lampe
Chapter 5. Transnational Organized Crime in Africa – Mark Shaw
Chapter 6. Transnational Organized Crime in Asia and the Middle East – Richard H. Ward and Daniel J. Mabrey
Chapter 7. Transnational Organized Crime Oceania – Roderic Broadhurst, Mark Lauchs, and Sally Lohrisch
Chapter 8. Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime – Gus Martin
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the author
Philip L. Reichel earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Kansas State University and is currently Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: A Topical Approach (6th ed., 2013), co-author of Corrections (2013), and co-editor of Human Trafficking: Exploring the International Nature, Concerns, and Complexities (2012). Dr. Reichel has also authored or co-authored more than 30 articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. He has lectured at universities in Austria, Germany, and Poland; participated in a panel for the United Nations University; was a presenter for a United Nations crime prevention webinar; presented papers at side events during the United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Brazil) and the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Vienna); and was an invited speaker at Zhejiang Police College in Hangzhou, China. He was asked to provide a contribution for an anthology of 14 esteemed scholars who have made a significant contribution to the discipline of criminal justice within a comparative/international context (Lessons From International Criminology/Comparative Criminology/Criminal Justice, 2004) and is an active member of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, serving as a Trustee-at-large for the latter.
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