Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering, and Corruption / / ed. by Margaret E. Beare.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beare, Margaret E.,; Desroches, Frederick J.,; Grayson, Kyle,; Mitsilegas, Valsamis,; Naylor, R. T.,; Ronderos, Juan G.,; Ruggiero, Vincenzo,; Sheptycki, James,; Williams, James W.,; Woodiwiss, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Beare, Margaret E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

Transnational crime, organized crime, money laundering and corruption are four concepts that have gained and continue to gain an international and domestic profile. Is the information given to the public concerning these concepts distorted by the vested interests of some politicians, media, police,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Transnational Organized Crime: The Strange Career of an American Concept
• 2. Predators, Parasites, or Free-Market Pioneers: Reflections on the Nature and Analysis of Profit-Driven Crime
• 3. From National to Global, from Empirical to Legal: The Ambivalent Concept of Transnational Organized Crime
• 4. The Business of Bribery: Globalization, Economic Liberalization, and the 'Problem' of Corruption
• 5. Against Transnational Organized Crime
• 6. Discourse, Identity, and the U.S. 'War on Drugs'
• 7. Global Markets and Crime
• 8. Organized Corporate Criminality: Corporate Complicity in Tobacco Smuggling
• 9. The War on Drugs and the Military: The Case of Colombia
• 10. Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Canada: A Study of High-Level Drug Networks
• 11. Follow-the-Money Methods in Crime Control Policy
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index