Organized Crime and Illicit Trade

✍ Scribed by Virginia Comolli

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 156
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
The Threat of Illicit Economies and the Complex Relations with State and Society (Vanda Felbab-Brown)....Pages 1-21
Organized Crime as a Threat to Sustainable Development: Understanding the Evidence (Tuesday Reitano)....Pages 23-35
IT and Cyber Capabilities as a Force Multiplier for Transnational Crime (Camino Kavanagh)....Pages 37-77
Measuring Illicit Trade and Its Wider Impact (Karl Lallerstedt)....Pages 79-109
Catalysing and Evaluating Development Responses to Organized Crime (Tuesday Reitano)....Pages 111-120
A State-Building Response to Organized Crime, Illicit Economies, Hybrid Threats, and Hybrid Governance (Vanda Felbab-Brown)....Pages 121-134
Back Matter ....Pages 135-143

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; International Security Studies; Development and Social Change; Crime and Society; Crime Prevention; Legislative and Executive Politics