Overview
- Offers a comprehensive integrated response to the challenges of transnational organised crime
- Puts forward a nuanced approach to organised crime through the lenses of conflict and security, development, and technology
- Explores the strategic impact of organised crime and illicit trade with special focus on conflict and fragile countries
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About this book
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.
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.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“The book provides an overview of the challenges that local and international organizations have to face when dealing with tackling illicit trades. Generally, readers with security and political science background may find interesting the entire book … .” (Stefano Caneppele, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, July, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Virginia Comolli is Senior Fellow for Security and Development at The International Institute for Strategic Studies
Vanda Felbab-Brown is a Senior Fellow at the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution.
Camino Kavanagh is an international consultant and Advisor to the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Cyber Security and ICT4 Peace Foundation.
Karl Lallerstedt is Programme Director for Illicit Trade, Financial and Economic Crime at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and co-founder of Black Market Watch.
Tuesday Reitano is Deputy Director of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.
Vanda Felbab-Brown is a Senior Fellow at the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution.
Camino Kavanagh is an international consultant and Advisor to the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Cyber Security and ICT4 Peace Foundation.
Karl Lallerstedt is Programme Director for Illicit Trade, Financial and Economic Crime at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and co-founder of Black Market Watch.
Tuesday Reitano is Deputy Director of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Organized Crime and Illicit Trade
Book Subtitle: How to Respond to This Strategic Challenge in Old and New Domains
Editors: Virginia Comolli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72968-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72967-1Published: 04 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10293-7Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72968-8Published: 24 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 143
Topics: International Security Studies, Development and Social Change, Crime and Society, Crime Prevention, Legislative and Executive Politics