Global crime today : the changing face of organised crime /
edited by Mark Galeotti.
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
| Medvirkende | Galeotti, Mark, (editor.)
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (173 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction Global Crime Today; 1 North American Organised Crime; 2 Italian Organised Crime: Mafia Associations and Criminal Enterprises; 3 Globalisation and Latin American and Caribbean Organised Crime; 4 The Russian 'Mafiya': Consolidation and Globalisation; 5 Organised Crime in East Central Europe: The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland; 6 Chinese Organised Crime; 7 The Changing Face of the Yakuza; 8 State Crime: The North Korean Drug Trade. - 9 The Crime-Terror Continuum: Tracing the Interplay between Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism10 The Global Dimension of Cybercrime; Index. - Crime is recognized as a constant factor within human society, but in the twenty-first century organized crime is emerging as one of the distinctive security threats of the new world order. The more complex, organized and interconnected society becomes, its crime becomes too. This book recognizes that the new century will be defined in part by a struggle between an 'upperworld', defined by increasingly open economic systems and democratic politics, and a transnational, entrepreneurial, dynamic and richly varied underworld, willing and able to use and distort these trends for i
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| Dewey | 364.1060973 . - 070.43
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| ISBN | 1-315-82429-9. - 1-317-83443-7. - 1-317-83444-5
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