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This book offers a comprehensive, multidimensional look into the major activities, groups, causes, and policing strategies related to global organized crime. Global Organized Crime: A Reference Handbook examines global organized crime dating back to its 17th-century roots. Unlike most works on the subject, which take a parochial approach by concentrating on individual countries or regions, this book uniquely details the impact of 21st-century globalization on such groups and their activities. Exploring the continuum of international organized crime and related developments from its early…mehr
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This book offers a comprehensive, multidimensional look into the major activities, groups, causes, and policing strategies related to global organized crime. Global Organized Crime: A Reference Handbook examines global organized crime dating back to its 17th-century roots. Unlike most works on the subject, which take a parochial approach by concentrating on individual countries or regions, this book uniquely details the impact of 21st-century globalization on such groups and their activities. Exploring the continuum of international organized crime and related developments from its early beginnings to the present era, the book also looks at the complicated issues that continue to influence its growth. It covers the impact of the end of the Cold War, immigration, the global drug trade, weapons sales, human smuggling and trafficking, the convergence of funding sources, and the effects of technology. What especially distinguishes this book is the connections it makes between organized crime activities and failed states, civil wars, political transitions, regional conflicts, and terrorist groups.
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- ISBN-13: 9781598843323
- ISBN-10: 159884332X
- Artikelnr.: 29285469
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Books on Demand GmbH
- In de Tarpen 42
- 22848 Norderstedt
- info@bod.de
- 040 53433511
- Verlag: ABC-CLIO
- Seitenzahl: 330
- Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 632g
- ISBN-13: 9781598843323
- ISBN-10: 159884332X
- Artikelnr.: 29285469
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Books on Demand GmbH
- In de Tarpen 42
- 22848 Norderstedt
- info@bod.de
- 040 53433511
Dr. Mitchel P. Roth is Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Sam Houston State University. His many books include Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (2024), Man With the Killer Smile: The Life and Crimes of a Serial Mass Murderer (2022), Power on the Inside: A Global History of Prison Gangs (2020), Fire in the Big House: The Worst Prison Disaster in American History (2019), The Illicit Economy in Turkey (with Mahmut Cengiz) (2019), An Eye for An Eye: A Global History of Crime and Punishment (2015), and Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo (2016).
List of Tables
Preface
1 Global Organized Crime: A Brief History
Introduction
Piracy
History Economic Factors Definition Piracy in the 21st Century
Piracy Then and Now
Background
Globalization
Defining Organized Crime
Transnational Crime: Definitions and Types
Mafia
Structures of Organized Crime Groups
Major Global Organized Crime Activities
Slavery and Human Trafficking
Structures of Human Trafficking Operations
Human Trafficking versus Human Smuggling
Coyotes
Snakeheads
Illicit Drug Trafficking
Weapons Trafficking
Conclusion
References
2 Problems
Controversies
and Solutions
Introduction
Circumstances and Conditions
Failed States
Corruption
Political Officials
Police
Tribalism and Ethnicity
Civil Wars
Political Transitions
Regional Conflicts
Organized Crime and Terrorism
Borrowed Tactics
Organized Crime Hybrids
Intersecting Activities
Narcoterrorism
Diamond Smuggling
Counterfeiting
Nuclear Smuggling
Other Types of Criminal Activities
Money Laundering
Hawala
Offshore Banking and Shell Corporations
Controlling Money Laundering
Electronic Money Laundering
High-Tech Crimes
Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud
Music Piracy
Gang Structures
Russian Mafiya
Drug Cartels
Export Syndicates
Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border
Prison Gangs and Street Gangs
Law Enforcement
International Cooperation
European Union
Barriers to International Law Enforcement
Language
Varying Laws and Jurisdictions
Technology
Policing Cyberspace
Conclusion
References
3 Global Organized Crime Groups
Italian Organized Crime Groups
The Sicilian and Italian-American Mafias
The Americanization of the Mafia
Camorra [Naples
Italy]
'Ndrangheta [Calabria
Italy]
The Corsicans
Russian Organized Crime (ROC)
Mexican Drug Cartels
Juarez Cartel
Sinaloa Cartel
Tijuana Cartel [Arrellano-Felix Organization]
Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas
Guadalajara Cartel [Amezcua-Contreras Organization]
Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) [Central America
Mexico
United States]
Asian Organized Crime Groups
Triads [China]
Big Circle Boys [China]
The Green Gang [China]
Tongs and Chinese Street Gangs [United States and Canada]
Yakuza [Japan]
Organized Crime Groups in Other Regions
Jamaican Posses [Caribbean
United Kingdom
United States]
Nigerian Gangs [Africa]
Hells Angels [United States
Western Europe
Canada
Australia]
References
4 Chronology
5 Biographical Sketches
Global Organized Crime Figures
Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia
Jose Miguel Battle
Viktor Bout
Klaas Bruinsma
Tommaso Buscetta
Ibrahim Dawood
Pablo Emilio Escobar-Gaviria
Don Vito Cascio Ferro
Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa
Osiel Cardenas Guillen
Joaquin Guzman
Vyacheslav Ivankov
Daut Kadriovski
Yoshio Kodama
Luciano Leggio
Heriberto Lazcano
Arturo Beltran Leyva
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
Semion Mogilevich
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno
Cheng Chui Peng
Ze'ev Rosenstein
Khun Sa
Charles Ghankay Taylor
Tu Yueh-sheng
Crime Fighters
Harry Anslinger
Thomas Dewey
Giovanni Falcone
Rudolph Giuliani
Walter Maierovitch
Cesare Mori
Giuseppe Petrosino
Joseph D. Pistone
Enrique Camarena Salazar
Researchers
Howard Abadinsky
Jay S. Albanese
Pino Arlacchi
Ko-lin Chin
T. J. English
Cyrille Fijnaut
James Finckenauer
Robert J. Kelly
Letizia Paoli
Kip Schlegel
Joseph Serio
Louise Shelley
Federico Varese
Klaus von Lampe
Michael Woodiwiss
6 Data and Documents
Facts and Statistics on Organized Crime
Defining Organized Crime
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (1970)
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000)
Categories of Transnational Criminal Offenses
Drug Trafficking
Potential Worldwide Heroin Production
in Metric Tons
2002-2006
Estimated Andean Region Coca Cultivation
Estimated Amounts of Illicit Drugs Transiting or Produced in Mexico and Seized
2000-2006
Gangs Affiliated with the Sinaloa
Gulf
Juarez
or Tijuana Cartels
The 20 Largest Cocaine Seizures Ever Reported
Drug Seizures in the Central Asian Region
2005-2006
International Opium Convention of 1912
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961
The Merida Initiative
2008
Weapons Trafficking
Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms
Ammunition
Explosives and Other Related Materials
1997
U.S. Senator Richard Lugar on Weapons Trafficking
2009
End User Certificate (EUC)
Human Smuggling and Trafficking Legislation and Statistics
Human Trafficking and Smuggling Definitions
United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1951
Protocol to Prevent
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
Article 3
Supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
2000
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land
Sea and Air
Article 3
Supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
2000
The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking Human Beings
2005
Crackdown on Human Trafficking in 2005
Selected Average Costs for Human Smuggling
2005
Services Required by Successful Trafficking Operations
Organized Crime Groups in the European Union (2005)
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005)
Other Types of Organized Crime
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
2003
Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act
2006
Money Laundering
Bank Secrecy Act of 1970
Amounts of Money Reported Laundered in the Tri-Border Area (TBA)
1992-2001 (USD)
Combating Organized Crime in the United States
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF)
U.S. Patriot Act
2001
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey
2008
Quotations
On Russian Organized Crime
On Latin American and Mexican Drug Networks
On Drug Trafficking
7 Directory of Organizations
Academic and Research-Oriented Organizations
Governmental Organizations
Law Enforcement Organizations
Nongovernmental Organizations
Investigative Roundtable on Organized Crime
8 Resources
Print Resources
African Organized Crime
Asian Organized Crime
Canadian Organized Crime
European Organized Crime
Globalization and Organized Crime
Italian Organized Crime
Law Enforcement
Maritime Piracy
Organized Crime and Related Issues
Organized Crime-Terrorism Nexus
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Russian and Soviet-Era Organized Crime
Trafficking and Criminal Networks
Nonprint Resources
Videos
Web Sites
Glossary
Index
About the Author
Preface
1 Global Organized Crime: A Brief History
Introduction
Piracy
History Economic Factors Definition Piracy in the 21st Century
Piracy Then and Now
Background
Globalization
Defining Organized Crime
Transnational Crime: Definitions and Types
Mafia
Structures of Organized Crime Groups
Major Global Organized Crime Activities
Slavery and Human Trafficking
Structures of Human Trafficking Operations
Human Trafficking versus Human Smuggling
Coyotes
Snakeheads
Illicit Drug Trafficking
Weapons Trafficking
Conclusion
References
2 Problems
Controversies
and Solutions
Introduction
Circumstances and Conditions
Failed States
Corruption
Political Officials
Police
Tribalism and Ethnicity
Civil Wars
Political Transitions
Regional Conflicts
Organized Crime and Terrorism
Borrowed Tactics
Organized Crime Hybrids
Intersecting Activities
Narcoterrorism
Diamond Smuggling
Counterfeiting
Nuclear Smuggling
Other Types of Criminal Activities
Money Laundering
Hawala
Offshore Banking and Shell Corporations
Controlling Money Laundering
Electronic Money Laundering
High-Tech Crimes
Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud
Music Piracy
Gang Structures
Russian Mafiya
Drug Cartels
Export Syndicates
Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border
Prison Gangs and Street Gangs
Law Enforcement
International Cooperation
European Union
Barriers to International Law Enforcement
Language
Varying Laws and Jurisdictions
Technology
Policing Cyberspace
Conclusion
References
3 Global Organized Crime Groups
Italian Organized Crime Groups
The Sicilian and Italian-American Mafias
The Americanization of the Mafia
Camorra [Naples
Italy]
'Ndrangheta [Calabria
Italy]
The Corsicans
Russian Organized Crime (ROC)
Mexican Drug Cartels
Juarez Cartel
Sinaloa Cartel
Tijuana Cartel [Arrellano-Felix Organization]
Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas
Guadalajara Cartel [Amezcua-Contreras Organization]
Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) [Central America
Mexico
United States]
Asian Organized Crime Groups
Triads [China]
Big Circle Boys [China]
The Green Gang [China]
Tongs and Chinese Street Gangs [United States and Canada]
Yakuza [Japan]
Organized Crime Groups in Other Regions
Jamaican Posses [Caribbean
United Kingdom
United States]
Nigerian Gangs [Africa]
Hells Angels [United States
Western Europe
Canada
Australia]
References
4 Chronology
5 Biographical Sketches
Global Organized Crime Figures
Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia
Jose Miguel Battle
Viktor Bout
Klaas Bruinsma
Tommaso Buscetta
Ibrahim Dawood
Pablo Emilio Escobar-Gaviria
Don Vito Cascio Ferro
Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa
Osiel Cardenas Guillen
Joaquin Guzman
Vyacheslav Ivankov
Daut Kadriovski
Yoshio Kodama
Luciano Leggio
Heriberto Lazcano
Arturo Beltran Leyva
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
Semion Mogilevich
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno
Cheng Chui Peng
Ze'ev Rosenstein
Khun Sa
Charles Ghankay Taylor
Tu Yueh-sheng
Crime Fighters
Harry Anslinger
Thomas Dewey
Giovanni Falcone
Rudolph Giuliani
Walter Maierovitch
Cesare Mori
Giuseppe Petrosino
Joseph D. Pistone
Enrique Camarena Salazar
Researchers
Howard Abadinsky
Jay S. Albanese
Pino Arlacchi
Ko-lin Chin
T. J. English
Cyrille Fijnaut
James Finckenauer
Robert J. Kelly
Letizia Paoli
Kip Schlegel
Joseph Serio
Louise Shelley
Federico Varese
Klaus von Lampe
Michael Woodiwiss
6 Data and Documents
Facts and Statistics on Organized Crime
Defining Organized Crime
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (1970)
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000)
Categories of Transnational Criminal Offenses
Drug Trafficking
Potential Worldwide Heroin Production
in Metric Tons
2002-2006
Estimated Andean Region Coca Cultivation
Estimated Amounts of Illicit Drugs Transiting or Produced in Mexico and Seized
2000-2006
Gangs Affiliated with the Sinaloa
Gulf
Juarez
or Tijuana Cartels
The 20 Largest Cocaine Seizures Ever Reported
Drug Seizures in the Central Asian Region
2005-2006
International Opium Convention of 1912
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961
The Merida Initiative
2008
Weapons Trafficking
Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms
Ammunition
Explosives and Other Related Materials
1997
U.S. Senator Richard Lugar on Weapons Trafficking
2009
End User Certificate (EUC)
Human Smuggling and Trafficking Legislation and Statistics
Human Trafficking and Smuggling Definitions
United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1951
Protocol to Prevent
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
Article 3
Supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
2000
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land
Sea and Air
Article 3
Supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
2000
The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking Human Beings
2005
Crackdown on Human Trafficking in 2005
Selected Average Costs for Human Smuggling
2005
Services Required by Successful Trafficking Operations
Organized Crime Groups in the European Union (2005)
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005)
Other Types of Organized Crime
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
2003
Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act
2006
Money Laundering
Bank Secrecy Act of 1970
Amounts of Money Reported Laundered in the Tri-Border Area (TBA)
1992-2001 (USD)
Combating Organized Crime in the United States
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF)
U.S. Patriot Act
2001
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey
2008
Quotations
On Russian Organized Crime
On Latin American and Mexican Drug Networks
On Drug Trafficking
7 Directory of Organizations
Academic and Research-Oriented Organizations
Governmental Organizations
Law Enforcement Organizations
Nongovernmental Organizations
Investigative Roundtable on Organized Crime
8 Resources
Print Resources
African Organized Crime
Asian Organized Crime
Canadian Organized Crime
European Organized Crime
Globalization and Organized Crime
Italian Organized Crime
Law Enforcement
Maritime Piracy
Organized Crime and Related Issues
Organized Crime-Terrorism Nexus
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Russian and Soviet-Era Organized Crime
Trafficking and Criminal Networks
Nonprint Resources
Videos
Web Sites
Glossary
Index
About the Author
List of Tables
Preface
1 Global Organized Crime: A Brief History
Introduction
Piracy
History Economic Factors Definition Piracy in the 21st Century
Piracy Then and Now
Background
Globalization
Defining Organized Crime
Transnational Crime: Definitions and Types
Mafia
Structures of Organized Crime Groups
Major Global Organized Crime Activities
Slavery and Human Trafficking
Structures of Human Trafficking Operations
Human Trafficking versus Human Smuggling
Coyotes
Snakeheads
Illicit Drug Trafficking
Weapons Trafficking
Conclusion
References
2 Problems
Controversies
and Solutions
Introduction
Circumstances and Conditions
Failed States
Corruption
Political Officials
Police
Tribalism and Ethnicity
Civil Wars
Political Transitions
Regional Conflicts
Organized Crime and Terrorism
Borrowed Tactics
Organized Crime Hybrids
Intersecting Activities
Narcoterrorism
Diamond Smuggling
Counterfeiting
Nuclear Smuggling
Other Types of Criminal Activities
Money Laundering
Hawala
Offshore Banking and Shell Corporations
Controlling Money Laundering
Electronic Money Laundering
High-Tech Crimes
Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud
Music Piracy
Gang Structures
Russian Mafiya
Drug Cartels
Export Syndicates
Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border
Prison Gangs and Street Gangs
Law Enforcement
International Cooperation
European Union
Barriers to International Law Enforcement
Language
Varying Laws and Jurisdictions
Technology
Policing Cyberspace
Conclusion
References
3 Global Organized Crime Groups
Italian Organized Crime Groups
The Sicilian and Italian-American Mafias
The Americanization of the Mafia
Camorra [Naples
Italy]
'Ndrangheta [Calabria
Italy]
The Corsicans
Russian Organized Crime (ROC)
Mexican Drug Cartels
Juarez Cartel
Sinaloa Cartel
Tijuana Cartel [Arrellano-Felix Organization]
Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas
Guadalajara Cartel [Amezcua-Contreras Organization]
Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) [Central America
Mexico
United States]
Asian Organized Crime Groups
Triads [China]
Big Circle Boys [China]
The Green Gang [China]
Tongs and Chinese Street Gangs [United States and Canada]
Yakuza [Japan]
Organized Crime Groups in Other Regions
Jamaican Posses [Caribbean
United Kingdom
United States]
Nigerian Gangs [Africa]
Hells Angels [United States
Western Europe
Canada
Australia]
References
4 Chronology
5 Biographical Sketches
Global Organized Crime Figures
Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia
Jose Miguel Battle
Viktor Bout
Klaas Bruinsma
Tommaso Buscetta
Ibrahim Dawood
Pablo Emilio Escobar-Gaviria
Don Vito Cascio Ferro
Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa
Osiel Cardenas Guillen
Joaquin Guzman
Vyacheslav Ivankov
Daut Kadriovski
Yoshio Kodama
Luciano Leggio
Heriberto Lazcano
Arturo Beltran Leyva
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
Semion Mogilevich
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno
Cheng Chui Peng
Ze'ev Rosenstein
Khun Sa
Charles Ghankay Taylor
Tu Yueh-sheng
Crime Fighters
Harry Anslinger
Thomas Dewey
Giovanni Falcone
Rudolph Giuliani
Walter Maierovitch
Cesare Mori
Giuseppe Petrosino
Joseph D. Pistone
Enrique Camarena Salazar
Researchers
Howard Abadinsky
Jay S. Albanese
Pino Arlacchi
Ko-lin Chin
T. J. English
Cyrille Fijnaut
James Finckenauer
Robert J. Kelly
Letizia Paoli
Kip Schlegel
Joseph Serio
Louise Shelley
Federico Varese
Klaus von Lampe
Michael Woodiwiss
6 Data and Documents
Facts and Statistics on Organized Crime
Defining Organized Crime
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (1970)
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000)
Categories of Transnational Criminal Offenses
Drug Trafficking
Potential Worldwide Heroin Production
in Metric Tons
2002-2006
Estimated Andean Region Coca Cultivation
Estimated Amounts of Illicit Drugs Transiting or Produced in Mexico and Seized
2000-2006
Gangs Affiliated with the Sinaloa
Gulf
Juarez
or Tijuana Cartels
The 20 Largest Cocaine Seizures Ever Reported
Drug Seizures in the Central Asian Region
2005-2006
International Opium Convention of 1912
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961
The Merida Initiative
2008
Weapons Trafficking
Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms
Ammunition
Explosives and Other Related Materials
1997
U.S. Senator Richard Lugar on Weapons Trafficking
2009
End User Certificate (EUC)
Human Smuggling and Trafficking Legislation and Statistics
Human Trafficking and Smuggling Definitions
United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1951
Protocol to Prevent
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
Article 3
Supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
2000
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land
Sea and Air
Article 3
Supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
2000
The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking Human Beings
2005
Crackdown on Human Trafficking in 2005
Selected Average Costs for Human Smuggling
2005
Services Required by Successful Trafficking Operations
Organized Crime Groups in the European Union (2005)
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005)
Other Types of Organized Crime
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
2003
Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act
2006
Money Laundering
Bank Secrecy Act of 1970
Amounts of Money Reported Laundered in the Tri-Border Area (TBA)
1992-2001 (USD)
Combating Organized Crime in the United States
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF)
U.S. Patriot Act
2001
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey
2008
Quotations
On Russian Organized Crime
On Latin American and Mexican Drug Networks
On Drug Trafficking
7 Directory of Organizations
Academic and Research-Oriented Organizations
Governmental Organizations
Law Enforcement Organizations
Nongovernmental Organizations
Investigative Roundtable on Organized Crime
8 Resources
Print Resources
African Organized Crime
Asian Organized Crime
Canadian Organized Crime
European Organized Crime
Globalization and Organized Crime
Italian Organized Crime
Law Enforcement
Maritime Piracy
Organized Crime and Related Issues
Organized Crime-Terrorism Nexus
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Russian and Soviet-Era Organized Crime
Trafficking and Criminal Networks
Nonprint Resources
Videos
Web Sites
Glossary
Index
About the Author
Preface
1 Global Organized Crime: A Brief History
Introduction
Piracy
History Economic Factors Definition Piracy in the 21st Century
Piracy Then and Now
Background
Globalization
Defining Organized Crime
Transnational Crime: Definitions and Types
Mafia
Structures of Organized Crime Groups
Major Global Organized Crime Activities
Slavery and Human Trafficking
Structures of Human Trafficking Operations
Human Trafficking versus Human Smuggling
Coyotes
Snakeheads
Illicit Drug Trafficking
Weapons Trafficking
Conclusion
References
2 Problems
Controversies
and Solutions
Introduction
Circumstances and Conditions
Failed States
Corruption
Political Officials
Police
Tribalism and Ethnicity
Civil Wars
Political Transitions
Regional Conflicts
Organized Crime and Terrorism
Borrowed Tactics
Organized Crime Hybrids
Intersecting Activities
Narcoterrorism
Diamond Smuggling
Counterfeiting
Nuclear Smuggling
Other Types of Criminal Activities
Money Laundering
Hawala
Offshore Banking and Shell Corporations
Controlling Money Laundering
Electronic Money Laundering
High-Tech Crimes
Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud
Music Piracy
Gang Structures
Russian Mafiya
Drug Cartels
Export Syndicates
Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border
Prison Gangs and Street Gangs
Law Enforcement
International Cooperation
European Union
Barriers to International Law Enforcement
Language
Varying Laws and Jurisdictions
Technology
Policing Cyberspace
Conclusion
References
3 Global Organized Crime Groups
Italian Organized Crime Groups
The Sicilian and Italian-American Mafias
The Americanization of the Mafia
Camorra [Naples
Italy]
'Ndrangheta [Calabria
Italy]
The Corsicans
Russian Organized Crime (ROC)
Mexican Drug Cartels
Juarez Cartel
Sinaloa Cartel
Tijuana Cartel [Arrellano-Felix Organization]
Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas
Guadalajara Cartel [Amezcua-Contreras Organization]
Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) [Central America
Mexico
United States]
Asian Organized Crime Groups
Triads [China]
Big Circle Boys [China]
The Green Gang [China]
Tongs and Chinese Street Gangs [United States and Canada]
Yakuza [Japan]
Organized Crime Groups in Other Regions
Jamaican Posses [Caribbean
United Kingdom
United States]
Nigerian Gangs [Africa]
Hells Angels [United States
Western Europe
Canada
Australia]
References
4 Chronology
5 Biographical Sketches
Global Organized Crime Figures
Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia
Jose Miguel Battle
Viktor Bout
Klaas Bruinsma
Tommaso Buscetta
Ibrahim Dawood
Pablo Emilio Escobar-Gaviria
Don Vito Cascio Ferro
Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa
Osiel Cardenas Guillen
Joaquin Guzman
Vyacheslav Ivankov
Daut Kadriovski
Yoshio Kodama
Luciano Leggio
Heriberto Lazcano
Arturo Beltran Leyva
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
Semion Mogilevich
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno
Cheng Chui Peng
Ze'ev Rosenstein
Khun Sa
Charles Ghankay Taylor
Tu Yueh-sheng
Crime Fighters
Harry Anslinger
Thomas Dewey
Giovanni Falcone
Rudolph Giuliani
Walter Maierovitch
Cesare Mori
Giuseppe Petrosino
Joseph D. Pistone
Enrique Camarena Salazar
Researchers
Howard Abadinsky
Jay S. Albanese
Pino Arlacchi
Ko-lin Chin
T. J. English
Cyrille Fijnaut
James Finckenauer
Robert J. Kelly
Letizia Paoli
Kip Schlegel
Joseph Serio
Louise Shelley
Federico Varese
Klaus von Lampe
Michael Woodiwiss
6 Data and Documents
Facts and Statistics on Organized Crime
Defining Organized Crime
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (1970)
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000)
Categories of Transnational Criminal Offenses
Drug Trafficking
Potential Worldwide Heroin Production
in Metric Tons
2002-2006
Estimated Andean Region Coca Cultivation
Estimated Amounts of Illicit Drugs Transiting or Produced in Mexico and Seized
2000-2006
Gangs Affiliated with the Sinaloa
Gulf
Juarez
or Tijuana Cartels
The 20 Largest Cocaine Seizures Ever Reported
Drug Seizures in the Central Asian Region
2005-2006
International Opium Convention of 1912
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961
The Merida Initiative
2008
Weapons Trafficking
Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms
Ammunition
Explosives and Other Related Materials
1997
U.S. Senator Richard Lugar on Weapons Trafficking
2009
End User Certificate (EUC)
Human Smuggling and Trafficking Legislation and Statistics
Human Trafficking and Smuggling Definitions
United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1951
Protocol to Prevent
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
Article 3
Supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
2000
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land
Sea and Air
Article 3
Supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
2000
The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking Human Beings
2005
Crackdown on Human Trafficking in 2005
Selected Average Costs for Human Smuggling
2005
Services Required by Successful Trafficking Operations
Organized Crime Groups in the European Union (2005)
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005)
Other Types of Organized Crime
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
2003
Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act
2006
Money Laundering
Bank Secrecy Act of 1970
Amounts of Money Reported Laundered in the Tri-Border Area (TBA)
1992-2001 (USD)
Combating Organized Crime in the United States
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF)
U.S. Patriot Act
2001
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey
2008
Quotations
On Russian Organized Crime
On Latin American and Mexican Drug Networks
On Drug Trafficking
7 Directory of Organizations
Academic and Research-Oriented Organizations
Governmental Organizations
Law Enforcement Organizations
Nongovernmental Organizations
Investigative Roundtable on Organized Crime
8 Resources
Print Resources
African Organized Crime
Asian Organized Crime
Canadian Organized Crime
European Organized Crime
Globalization and Organized Crime
Italian Organized Crime
Law Enforcement
Maritime Piracy
Organized Crime and Related Issues
Organized Crime-Terrorism Nexus
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Russian and Soviet-Era Organized Crime
Trafficking and Criminal Networks
Nonprint Resources
Videos
Web Sites
Glossary
Index
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