Defining and Defying Organised Crime
Discourse, Perceptions and Reality
1st Edition
Published on 17. February 2010
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-0-415-54852-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 making. The second part examines the perceptions of organized crime as expressed by various actors, for example, the general public in the Balkans and in Japan, the criminal justice system in USA and circles within the international scientific community. Finally, the third part provides an overall investigation into the realities of organized crime with chapters that survey its empirical manifestations in various parts of the world.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, criminology, security studies and practitioners.
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 making. The second part examines the perceptions of organized crime as expressed by various actors, for example, the general public in the Balkans and in Japan, the criminal justice system in USA and circles within the international scientific community. Finally, the third part provides an overall investigation into the realities of organized crime with chapters that survey its empirical manifestations in various parts of the world.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, criminology, security studies and practitioners.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
8 s/w Zeichnungen, 10 s/w Tabellen, 8 s/w Abbildungen
10 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
555 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-54852-6 (9780415548526)
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Discourse, Perceptions and Reality
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Discourse, Perceptions and Reality
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Felia Allum | Francesca Longo | Daniela Irrera
Defining and Defying Organised Crime
Discourse, Perceptions and Reality
E-Book
02/2010
Routledge
€64.49
Available for download
Persons
Felia Allum is Lecturer in Politics and Italian at the University of Bath, UK. She is co-editor of Organized Crime and the Challenge to Democracy (also published by Routledge).
Francesca Longo is Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Public Policy at the University of Catania, Italy
Daniela Irrera is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Catania, Italy.
Panos A. Kostakos is a doctoral candidate at the University of Bath, UK
Francesca Longo is Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Public Policy at the University of Catania, Italy
Daniela Irrera is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Catania, Italy.
Panos A. Kostakos is a doctoral candidate at the University of Bath, UK
Content
Part 1: 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 Expertise Part 2: 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 3: 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 State 11. Organized Crime and Local Politics 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