Defining and defying organized crime : discourse, perceptions and reality / edited by Felia Allum. [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allum, Felia, 1971-

Series:

Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 83.

Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organized crime.

Crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Deconstruction in progress: towards a better understanding of organized crime?; Part I 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 expertisePart II 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 III 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 state11 Local politics and organized crime 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; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-27315-4

1-135-27316-2

1-282-57205-9

9786612572050

0-203-86034-9

9780203860342

OCLC:

609856057