Organized Crime and Illicit Trade How to Respond to This Strategic Challenge in Old and New Domains /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Comolli, Virginia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Security, International.; Economic development.; Social change.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Crime prevention.; Legislative bodies.; International Security Studies.; Development and Social Change.; Crime and Society.; Crime Prevention.; Legislative and Executive Politics.

"This title is a unique contribution, taking scholarship forward by developing new arguments around the development of organised crime. The latter makes the book particularly relevant, giving it great currency beyond a scholarly audience alone." Mark Shaw, Director of the Global Initiative...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A strategic challenge - Virginia Comolli
• Chapter One: The threat of illicit economies and the complex relations with state and society - Vanda Felbab-Brown
• Chapter Two: Organised crime as a threat to sustainable development: Understanding the evidence - Tuesday Reitano
• Chapter Three: IT and cyber capabilities as a force multiplier for transnational crime - Camino Kavanagh
• Chapter Four: Measuring illicit trade and its wider impact - Karl Lallerstedt
• Chapter Five: Catalysing and evaluating development responses to organised crime - Tuesday Reitano
• Chapter Six: A state-building response to organised crime, illicit economies, hybrid threats, and hybrid governance - Vanda Felbab-Brown
• Conclusion - Virginia Comolli.