Global Organized Crime: A Reference Handbook (contemporary World Issues) [Hardcover]

This book offers a comprehensive, multidimensional look into the major activities, groups, causes, and policing strategies related to global organized crime.

Global Organized Crime: A Reference Handbookexamines global organized crime dating back to its 17th-century roots. Unlike most works on the subject, which take a parochial approach by concentrating on individual countries or regions, this book uniquely details the impact of 21st-century globalization on such groups and their activities.

Exploring the continuum of international organized crime and related developments from its early beginnings to the present era, the book also looks at the complicated issues that continue to influence its growth. It covers the impact of the end of the Cold War, immigration, the global drug trade, weapons sales, human smuggling and trafficking, the convergence of funding sources, and the effects of technology. What especially distinguishes this book is the connections it makes between organized crime activities and failed states, civil wars, political transitions, regional conflicts, and terrorist groups.

Roth (criminal justice, Sam Houston State U.) provides a reference work on the history and development of global organized crime, the factors that influence it, and its connections to failed states, civil wars, political transitions and conflicts, and terrorism. The author also explores the varieties of organized crime (such as illegal drug trafficking, weapons, and snake heads), gang structure, law enforcement and barriers to international law enforcement, and criminal groups. Reference & Research Book News

Because of its depth of exploration, this reference will probably be most useful for college students, but general-interest readers may find it informative. Library Journlƒ2