Defining and Defying Organised Crime

List of contributors Foreword by Monica den Boer Acknowledgements Figures and tables Introduction: deconstruction in progress: towards a better understanding of organized crime? - Felia Allum and Panos A. Kostakos Part I: Discourse and Definitions 1. Discoursing organized crime: towards a two level analysis? - Franecesca Longo 2. The criminal not the crime: practitioner discourse and the policing of organized crime in England and Wales - Clive Hartfield 3. The evolution of the European Union's understanding of organized crime and its embedment in EU discourse - Helena Carrapico 4. International policy discourses on transnational organized crime: the role of an international expertise - Amandine Scherrer Part II: Perceptions 5. Transnational Organized Crime and the Global Security Agenda: Different Perceptions and Conflicting strategies? - Daniela Irrera 6. Evolving perceptions of organized crime: the use of RICO in the United States - Joseph Wheatley 7. The Yakuza and its perceived threat - Sayaka Fukumi 8. The social perception of organized crime in the Balkans: a world of diverging views? - Jana Arsovska and Panos A. Kostakos Part III: Reality 9. The fire behind the smoke: the realities of human trafficking in Northern Ireland - Louise Deegan 10. Organized crime in transition-era Bulgaria: the elites and the state - Marina Tzevtkova 11. Organized crime and local politics in contemporary Italy: willing or unwilling bedfellows? - Felia Allum 12. The crime-terror nexus: do threat perceptions align with 'reality'? - Tamara Makarenko Conclusion: Getting to grips with the deconstruction of organized crime - Francesca Longo and Daniela Irrera