Transnational organized crime : : analyses of a global challenge to democracy / / edited by Regine Schönenberg.

• HerausgeberIn: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
• TeilnehmendeR: Schönenberg, Regine,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Politik ; Bd. 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Notes: International conference proceedings.

Transnational organized crime interferes with the everyday lives of more and more people - and represents a serious threat to democracy. By now, organized crime has become an inherent feature of economic globalization, and the fine line between the legal and illegal operation of business networks is blurred. Additionally, few experts could claim to have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the laws and regulations governing the international flow of trade, and hence of the borderline towards criminal transactions. This book offers contributions from 12 countries around the world authored by 25 experts from a wide range of academic disciplines, representatives from civil society organizations and private industry, journalists, as well as activists. Recognizing the complexity of the issue, this publication provides a cross cultural and multi-disciplinary analysis of transnational organized crime including a historical approach from different regional and cultural contexts. Conception: Regine Schönenberg and Annette von Schönfeld.

»Insgesamt vermittelt der Band [...] trotz oder gerade wegen der zahlreichen Perspektiven auf das Thema ein Verständnis für die Vielschichtigkeit des Problems und die Notwendigkeit umfassenderer Ansätze.« Christian Patz, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 09.04.2015 »Es ist die nüchterne, wissenschaftliche Analyse und ihre Sprache, die die Problematik so eindringlich präsentiert und beweist, dass die Organisierte Kriminalität weltweit keine marginale Erscheinung ist und konsequentes, gemeinsames Handeln erfordert - auch in Deutschland.« Europäische Sicherheit & Technik, 3 (2014) »Das Buch bietet einen guten Einstieg in die Thematik und liest sich sehr abwechslungsreich.« Alexander Kamprad, http://criminologia.de/www.surveillance-studies.org, 1 (2014) »The broad range of perspectives and multi-professional approach are refreshing and fit well into the editors mission to focus on features of TOC that are not generally brought into conversation with each other.« Nicholas Dietrich, H-Soz-u-Kult, 06.12.2013 Reviewed in: taz, 20.06.2013, Wolf-Dieter Vogel

Table of Contents

1 Contents 5 Preface 9 I. Introduction 11 1. Money Laundering: Motives, Methods, Impact, and Countermeasures 17 2. What Do a Tax Evader and a Money Launderer have in Common? The Role of Secrecy in the Financial Sector 35 3. "People should not be punished for being honest!" 41 4. Organized Crime in Cyberspace 47 5. Judicial and Social Conditions for the Containment of Organized Crime: A Best Practice Account 61 1. INTRODUCTION 75 2.1 TWO SIDES OF A COIN? STATEBUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME NETWORKS IN AFGHANISTAN 77 2.2 "MIRED IN DECEPTION" - NARCOTICS AND POLITICS IN AFGHANISTAN 91 2.3 HOW TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN AFGHANISTAN: A COMMUNITY PROJECT EXAMPLE 109 3.1 BLACK ECONOMY IN INDIA AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME: UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY 115 4.1 ORGANIZED AND TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN WEST AFRICA 127 5.1 FROM APARTHEID TO 2020: THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZED CRIMINAL NETWORKS IN SOUTH AFRICA 145 6.1 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE WAR AGAINST DRUGS IN MEXICO 149 6.2 Extortion in Everyday Life in Mexico 161 6.3 CIVIL SOCIETY'S STRATEGIES TO CONFRONT GROWING INSECURITY AND VIOLENCE IN MEXICO 169 7.1 VIOLENCE AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN BRAZIL: THE CASE OF "MILITIAS" IN RIO DE JANEIRO 179 7.2 ROOTS OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE AMAZON 189 7.3 IF THE MPF WOULD NOT GO FOR IT, WHO WILL? 199 7.4 UNHOLY ALLIANCES OR CREATIVE PROCESSES? SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACHES POINT OUT NEW WAYS TOWARD LOCAL HARM REDUCTION 203 8.1 A "BLACK HOLE" IN EUROPE? THE SOCIAL AND DISCURSIVE REALITY OF CRIME IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S TACIT COMPLICITY 211 8.2 TRAFFICKING IN ORGANS, TISSUES, AND CELLS IS SOMETIMES PART OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING 233 9.1 ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION - NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES 239 10.1 CIVIL SOCIETY'S ROLE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE 'NDRANGHETA 267 10.2 AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO COMBAT THE MAFIA: CONFISCATION OF CRIMINAL ASSETS 277 11.1 THE MAFIA AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN GERMANY 285 IV. Outlook 295 ABBREVIATIONS 297 Authors 299