Bücher der Reihe Studies of Organized Crime

This book contains a collection of essays in honor of Alan A. It brings together important contributions from Block's students and contemporaries to show the impact of his work on the field of global organized crime. Block of Penn State University has proven to be one of the most inspiring criminologists in the field.

This volume analyzes the development of the reactions to Covid-19 by governments, the public and the crime patterns in 16 European countries.  All countries are members of the European Union and share common European norms and values, but the Covid-19 pandemic can serve as an example of how these norms and values are interpreted differently with regard to people's trust in public institutions, governmental control strategies, dealing with fear, anxiety and other emotional responses to the new virus, crime patterns and law enforcement priorities to prevent and combat them. The volume provides empirical data based on available statistics, media analysis and qualitative data from interviews and observations, and examines the similarities and differences in crime patterns and the consequences for local communities and law enforcement priorities. 

This book discusses the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the practice of medicine, and the observed and potential pitfalls of such partnerships.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: DRUG-RELATED ISSUES.- Chapter 2: The Bankruptcy of the Dutch cannabis policy. Time for a restart.- Chapter 3: Illicit Performance and Image Enhancing Drug Markets in the Netherlands and Belgium.- Part II: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION.- Chapter 4: Legal Prostitution Policies in Europe.- Chapter 5: Linking Prostitution Policies and Human Trafficking: Nordic Experiences.- Part III: MOBILITY CRIMES.- Chapter 6: The mobility of East and Central European organised crime: the cases of Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania.- Chapter 7: The Outlaw Extreme: Violence, Prosecution and The Evolution of the North-American One Percent Motorcycle Club.- Part IV: SPORTS AND CRIME.- Chapter 8: Detection and prevention of money laundering in professional football.- Chapter 9: Match-fixing in sports: a crime of ''outsiders'' and Asian bookies?.- Part V: PROCUREMENT, CORRUPTION AND RISK ASSESSMENT.- Chapter 10: Criminal organizations and legal firms: how they alter and control the public procurement business.- Chapter 11: Awarding public contracts and safeguarding integrity: the challenge to put research findings into practice.- Part VI: CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.- Chapter 12: Combating organized crime Aussie-style: From law enforcement to prevention.- Chapter 13: Uneasy Truths; Criminal Informants, Witness Protection, Trust and Legitimacy in the Policing of Organized Crime.- Chapter 14: Undercover policing from a comparative perspective.- Chapter 15: Infiltration.

In this book the author examines the illegal wildlife trade from multiple perspectives: the historical context, the impact on the environment, the scope of the problem internationally, the sociocultural demand for illegal products, the legal efforts to combat it, and several case studies from inside the trade.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: DRUG-RELATED ISSUES.- Chapter 2: The Bankruptcy of the Dutch cannabis policy. Time for a restart.- Chapter 3: Illicit Performance and Image Enhancing Drug Markets in the Netherlands and Belgium.- Part II: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION.- Chapter 4: Legal Prostitution Policies in Europe.- Chapter 5: Linking Prostitution Policies and Human Trafficking: Nordic Experiences.- Part III: MOBILITY CRIMES.- Chapter 6: The mobility of East and Central European organised crime: the cases of Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania.- Chapter 7: The Outlaw Extreme: Violence, Prosecution and The Evolution of the North-American One Percent Motorcycle Club.- Part IV: SPORTS AND CRIME.- Chapter 8: Detection and prevention of money laundering in professional football.- Chapter 9: Match-fixing in sports: a crime of ''outsiders'' and Asian bookies?.- Part V: PROCUREMENT, CORRUPTION AND RISK ASSESSMENT.- Chapter 10: Criminal organizations and legal firms: how they alter and control the public procurement business.- Chapter 11: Awarding public contracts and safeguarding integrity: the challenge to put research findings into practice.- Part VI: CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.- Chapter 12: Combating organized crime Aussie-style: From law enforcement to prevention.- Chapter 13: Uneasy Truths; Criminal Informants, Witness Protection, Trust and Legitimacy in the Policing of Organized Crime.- Chapter 14: Undercover policing from a comparative perspective.- Chapter 15: Infiltration.

This book covers organized crime groups, empirical studies of organized crime, criminal finances and money laundering, and crime prevention, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field.

This book covers two lesser known but important members of the Italian Mafia: the 'Ndrangheta and the Sacra Corona Unita. Italian criminal organizations, in particular Mafia, are one of the most commonly researched organized crime groups, usually focusing on the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, or the Neapolitan Mafia, Camorra.

This book covers organized crime groups, empirical studies of organized crime, criminal finances and money laundering, and crime prevention, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field.

This book covers two lesser known but important members of the Italian Mafia: the 'Ndrangheta and the Sacra Corona Unita. Italian criminal organizations, in particular Mafia, are one of the most commonly researched organized crime groups, usually focusing on the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, or the Neapolitan Mafia, Camorra.

Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia' could be used as primary reading in deviance and organized crime courses.

The insightful essays in this book shine a new light on the roles of women within criminal networks, roles that in reality are often less traditional than researchers used to think. The book seeks to answer questions from a wide range of academic disciplines and traces the portrait of women tied to organized crime in Italy and around the world.

With more than 70 per cent of murders of Partido de la Revolucion Democratica members remaining unsolved, this study of the causes of political killings in Mexico's ongoing process of democratization puts them firmly in the context of political repression.

Dina Siegel and Hans Nelen The term 'global organized crime' has been in use in criminology since the mid 1990s.

This book presents a vivid description of the solutions that researchers have discovered for ethical dilemmas that pose themselves at studying disadvantaged, vulnerable and victimized populations. Ethical codes prescribe that the scholar should in all circumstances avoid potential harm, that informed consent is necessary and that the limits of confidentiality should always be respected. However, in the practice of research among women involved in prostitution, illegal immigrant workers, enslaved children, people who sell their organs and all the traffickers thereof, the ethical rules cannot always be followed. This book shows that there is a surprising variety of arguable possibilities in dealing with ethical dilemmas in the field. Authors reflect on concrete experiences from their own fieldwork in a wide variety of settings such as the USA, Singapore, Kosovo and The Netherlands. Some choose to work on the basis of conscientious partiality, others negotiate the rules with their informants and still others purposely break the rules in order to disclose and damage the exploiters. Researchers may find themselves in a vulnerable position. Their experiences, as presented in this volume, will help field workers, university administrators, representatives of vulnerable groups, philosophers of ethics and most of all students to go into the field well-prepared.This is a book that every researcher planning to do fieldwork in the difficult field of hidden, illicit and victimized people should read in advance.Dr. Frank Bovenkerk, Professor (Emeritus), Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Universiteit Utrecht, The NetherlandsThis book allows a peek in the kitchen of empirical fieldwork, going into not only "best practices," but mistakes made, in a frank, courageous and honest way.Dr. Brenda C. Oude Breuil, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

This book presents a vivid description of the solutions that researchers have discovered for ethical dilemmas that pose themselves at studying disadvantaged, vulnerable and victimized populations. Ethical codes prescribe that the scholar should in all circumstances avoid potential harm, that informed consent is necessary and that the limits of confidentiality should always be respected. However, in the practice of research among women involved in prostitution, illegal immigrant workers, enslaved children, people who sell their organs and all the traffickers thereof, the ethical rules cannot always be followed. This book shows that there is a surprising variety of arguable possibilities in dealing with ethical dilemmas in the field. Authors reflect on concrete experiences from their own fieldwork in a wide variety of settings such as the USA, Singapore, Kosovo and The Netherlands. Some choose to work on the basis of conscientious partiality, others negotiate the rules with their informants and still others purposely break the rules in order to disclose and damage the exploiters. Researchers may find themselves in a vulnerable position. Their experiences, as presented in this volume, will help field workers, university administrators, representatives of vulnerable groups, philosophers of ethics and most of all students to go into the field well-prepared.This is a book that every researcher planning to do fieldwork in the difficult field of hidden, illicit and victimized people should read in advance.Dr. Frank Bovenkerk, Professor (Emeritus), Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Universiteit Utrecht, The NetherlandsThis book allows a peek in the kitchen of empirical fieldwork, going into not only ¿best practices,¿ but mistakes made, in a frank, courageous and honest way.Dr. Brenda C. Oude Breuil, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

Despite strenuous efforts from local, national, and international law enforcement, organized crime continues to thrive and prosper-even centuries-old crime outfits are surviving the global forces of mass migration and multinational business and finance.

Despite strenuous efforts from local, national, and international law enforcement, organized crime continues to thrive and prosper-even centuries-old crime outfits are surviving the global forces of mass migration and multinational business and finance.

In the current processes of political, economic and cultural changes serious cross-border forms of organized crime receive unprecedented attention as spectacular global media events, as 'threats' of all sorts, and as priority targets of criminal policy and political agendas.

In the current processes of political, economic and cultural changes serious cross-border forms of organized crime receive unprecedented attention as spectacular global media events, as 'threats' of all sorts, and as priority targets of criminal policy and political agendas.