Defining and Defying Organised Crime

Discourse, Perceptions and Reality
Herausgeber: Allum, Felia; Irrera, Daniela; Longo, Francesca

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Produktbeschreibung

Organized crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach this book examines the nature of this threat. By analysing the existing, official institutional discourse on organized crime it examines whether or not it has an impact on perceptions of the threat and on the reality of organized crime. The book first part of the book explores both the paradigm and the rationale of policy output in the fight against organized crime, and also exposes the often 'hidden' internal assumptions embedded in policy making. The second part examines the perceptions of organized crime as expressed by various actors, for example, the general public in the Balkans and in Japan, the criminal justice system in USA and circles within the international scientific community. Finally, the third part provides an overall investigation into the realities of organized crime with chapters that survey its empirical manifestations in various parts of the world. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, criminology, security studies and practitioners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780415548526
• ISBN-10: 0415548527
• Artikelnr.: 29338817

Autorenporträt

Felia Allum is Lecturer in Politics and Italian at the University of Bath, UK. She is co-editor of Organized Crime and the Challenge to Democracy (also published by Routledge). Francesca Longo is Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Public Policy at the University of Catania, Italy Daniela Irrera is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Catania, Italy. Panos A. Kostakos is a doctoral candidate at the University of Bath, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Discourse and Definitions 1. Discoursing Organized Crime: Towards a
Two Level Analysis? 2. The Criminal not the Crime: Practitioner Discourse
and the Policing of Organized Crime in England and Wales 3. The Evolution
of the European Union's Understanding of Organized Crime and its Embedment
in EU Discourse 4. International Policy Discourses on Transnational
Organized Crime: The Role of an International Expertise Part 2: Perceptions
5. Transnational Organized Crime and the Global Security Agenda: Different
Perceptions and Conflicting strategies? 6. Evolving Perceptions of
Organized Crime: The Use of RICO in the United States 7. The Yakuza and its
Perceived Threat 8. The Social Perception of Organized Crime in the
Balkans: A World of Diverging Views? Part 3: Reality 9. The Fire behind the
Smoke: The Realities of Human trafficking in Northern Ireland 10. Organized
crime in transition-era Bulgaria: The Elites and the State 11. Organized
Crime and Local Politics in Contemporary Italy: Willing or Unwilling
Bedfellows? 12. The Crime-Terror Nexus: Do Threat Perceptions Align with
'Reality'? Conclusion: Getting to Grips with the Deconstruction of
Organized Crime