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Global Organized Crime : A Reference Handbook

by: Roth, Mitchel P.

Global Organized Crime : A Reference Handbook

by: Roth, Mitchel P.

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Copyright: 05/05/2010
Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc

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ABC-CLIO's celebrated Contemporary World Issues Series-available in both print and eBook formats-provides accurate, unbiased reference handbooks on the major topics of the day. Subject categories are:

List of Tables	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Global Organized Crime: A Brief History	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Piracy	p. 2
History	p. 2
Economic Factors	p. 3
Definition	p. 4
Piracy in the 21st Century	p. 5
Piracy then and Now	p. 7
Background	p. 9
Globalization	p. 9
Defining Organized Crime	p. 10
Transnational Crime: Definitions and Types	p. 12
Mafia	p. 12
Structures of Organized Crime Groups	p. 14
Major Global Organized Crime Activities	p. 16
Slavery and Human Trafficking	p. 16
Structures of Human Trafficking Operations	p. 19
Human Trafficking versus Human Smuggling	p. 20
Coyotes	p. 21
Snakeheads	p. 22
Illicit Drug Trafficking	p. 22
Weapons Trafficking	p. 27
Conclusion	p. 29
References	p. 30
Problems, Controversies, and Solutions	p. 35
Introduction	p. 35
Circumstances and Conditions	p. 36
Failed States	p. 36
Corruption	p. 37
Political Officials	p. 37
Police	p. 39
Tribalism and Ethnicity	p. 40
Civil Wars, Political Transitions, Regional Conflicts	p. 41
Organized Crime and Terrorism	p. 45
Borrowed Tactics	p. 48
Organized Crime Hybrids	p. 50
Intersecting Activities	p. 50
Narcoterrorism	p. 52
Diamond Smuggling	p. 54
Counterfeiting	p. 55
Nuclear Smuggling	p. 57
Other Types of Criminal Activities	p. 58
Money Laundering	p. 58
Hawala	p. 59
Offshore Banking and Shell Corporations	p. 60
Controlling Money Laundering	p. 61
Electronic Money Laundering	p. 62
High-Tech Crimes	p. 63
Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud	p. 65
Music Piracy	p. 66
Gang Structures	p. 67
Russian Mafiya	p. 67
Drug Cartels	p. 67
Export Syndicates	p. 69
Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border	p. 70
Prison Gangs and Street Gangs	p. 71
Law Enforcement	p. 72
International Cooperation	p. 72
European Union	p. 74
Barriers to International Law Enforcement	p. 75
Language	p. 76
Varying Laws and Jurisdictions	p. 77
Technology	p. 77
Policing Cyberspace	p. 78
Conclusion	p. 78
References	p. 80
Global Organized Crime Groups	p. 89
Italian Organized Crime Groups	p. 89
The Sicilian and Italian-American Mafias	p. 89
The Americanization of the Mafia	p. 92
Camorra [Naples, Italy]	p. 94
'Ndrangheta [Calabria, Italy]	p. 94
The Corsicans	p. 96
Russian Organized Crime (ROC)	p. 97
Mexican Drug Cartels	p. 99
Juarez Cartel	p. 100
Sinaloa Cartel	p. 101
Tijuana Cartel [Arrellano-Felix Organization]	p. 101
Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas	p. 102
Guadalajara Cartel [Amezcua-Contreras Organization]	p. 103
Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) [Central America, Mexico, United States]	p. 104
Asian Organized Crime Groups	p. 105
Triads [China]	p. 105
Big Circle Boys [China]	p. 108
The Green Gang [China]	p. 109
Tongs and Chinese Street Gangs [United States and Canada]	p. 109
Yakuza [Japan]	p. 111
Organized Crime Groups in Other Regions	p. 114
Jamaican Posses [Caribbean, United Kingdom, United States]	p. 114
Nigerian Gangs [Africa]	p. 116
Hells Angels [United States, Western Europe, Canada, Australia]	p. 117
References	p. 119
Chronology	p. 125
Biographical Sketches	p. 149
Global Organized Crime Figures	p. 149
Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia	p. 149
Jose Miguel Battle	p. 149
Viktor Bout	p. 150
Klass Bruinsma	p. 151
Tommaso Buscetta	p. 151
Ibrahim Dawood	p. 152
Pablo Emilio Escobar-Gaviria	p. 153
Don Vito Cascio Ferro	p. 154
Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa	p. 154
Osiel Cardenas Guillen	p. 155
Joaquin Guzman	p. 155
Vyacheslav Ivankov	p. 156
Daut Kadriovski	p. 156
Yoshio Kodama	p. 157
Luciano Leggio	p. 157
Heriberto Lazcano	p. 158
Arturo Beltran Leyva	p. 158
Charles "Lucky" Luciano	p. 159
Semion Mogilevich	p. 159
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno	p. 160
Cheng Chui Peng	p. 161
Ze'ev Rosenstein	p. 161
Khun Sa	p. 162
Charles Ghankay Taylor	p. 162
Tu Yueh-sheng	p. 163
Crime Fighters	p. 163
Harry Anslinger	p. 163
Thomas Dewey	p. 164
Giovanni Falcone	p. 164
Rudolph Giuliani	p. 165
Walter Maierovitch	p. 165
Cesare Mori	p. 166
Giuseppe Petrosino	p. 166
Joseph D. Pistone	p. 167
Enrique Camarena Salazar	p. 168
Researchers	p. 168
Howard Abadinsky	p. 168
Jay S. Albanese	p. 169
Pino Arlacchi	p. 169
Ko-lin Chin	p. 170
T.J. English	p. 170
Cyrille Fijnaut	p. 170
James Finckenauer	p. 171
Robert J. Kelly	p. 171
Letizia Paoli	p. 172
Kip Schlegel	p. 172
Joseph Serio	p. 172
Louise Shelley	p. 173
Federico Varese	p. 173
Klaus von Lampe	p. 174
Michael Woodiwiss	p. 174
Data and Documents	p. 175
Facts and Statistics on Organized Crime	p. 175
Defining Organized Crime	p. 176
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (1970)	p. 176
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000)	p. 179
Categories of Transnational Criminal Offenses	p. 181
Drug Trafficking	p. 182
Potential Worldwide Heroin Production, in Metric Tons, 2002-2006	p. 182
Estimated Andean Region Coca Cultivation	p. 184
Estimated Amounts of Illicit Drugs Transiting or Produced in Mexico and Seized, 2000-2006	p. 184
Gangs Affiliated with the Sinaloa, Gulf, Juarez, or Tijuana Cartels	p. 185
The 20 Largest Cocaine Seizures Ever Reported	p. 186
Drug Seizures in the Central Asian Region, 2005-2006	p. 186
International Opium Convention of 1912	p. 188
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914	p. 189
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937	p. 191
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961	p. 192
The Merida Initiative, 2008	p. 193
Weapons Trafficking	p. 195
Inter-American Convention against the Illicit
Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials, 1997	p. 195
U.S. Senator Richard Lugar on Weapons Trafficking, 2009	p. 198
End User Certificate (EUC)	p. 199
Human Smuggling and Trafficking Legislation and Statistics	p. 201
Human Trafficking and Smuggling Definitions	p. 201
United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951	p. 201
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Article 3, Supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000	p. 202
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, Article 3, Supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000	p. 202
The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking Human Beings, 2005	p. 202
Crackdown on Human Trafficking in 2005	p. 203
Selected Average Costs for Human Smuggling, 2005	p. 203
Services Required by Successful Trafficking Operations	p. 204
Organized Crime Groups in the European Union (2005)	p. 205
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005)	p. 205
Other Types of Organized Crime	p. 208
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, 2003	p. 208
Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act, 2006	p. 210
Money Laundering	p. 211
Bank Secrecy Act of 1970	p. 212
Amounts of Money Reported Laundered in the Tri-Border Area (TBA), 1992-2001 (USD)	p. 213
Combating Organized Crime in the United States	p. 214
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF)	p. 214
U.S. Patriot Act, 2001	p. 215
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, 2008	p. 216
Quotations	p. 217
On Russian Organized Crime	p. 219
On Latin American and Mexican Drug Networks	p. 220
On Drug Trafficking	p. 221
Directory of Organizations	p. 223
Academic and Research-Oriented Organizations	p. 223
Governmental Organizations	p. 227
Law Enforcement Organizations	p. 236
Nongovernmental Organizations	p. 244
Investigative Roundtable on Organized Crime	p. 246
Resources	p. 249
Print Resources	p. 249
African Organized Crime	p. 249
Asian Organized Crime	p. 249
Canadian Organized Crime	p. 252
European Organized Crime	p. 253
Globalization and Organized Crime	p. 255
Italian Organized Crime	p. 259
Law Enforcement	p. 263
Maritime Piracy	p. 264
Organized Crime and Related Issues	p. 265
Organized Crime-Terrorism Nexus	p. 271
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs	p. 272
Russian and Soviet-Era Organized Crime	p. 273
Trafficking and Criminal Networks	p. 274
Nonprint Resources	p. 276
Videos	p. 276
Web Sites	p. 282
Glossary	p. 287
Index	p. 293
About the Author	p. 308
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Global Organized Crime : A Reference Handbook

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