Introduction PART I Concepts, theories and laws Chapter 1 Reflections on Transnational organized crime as a security concept Chapter 2 Transnational criminal networks Chapter 3 Transnational organized crime: a survey of laws, policies and international conventions PART II Origins and manifestations Chapter 4 The many faces of organized crime in Europe and its assessment. Chapter 5 The past and present of transnational organized crime in America Chapter 6 Transnational organized crime and corruption in Russia Chapter 7 Nigerian organized crime Chapter 8 Vietnamese organized crime Chapter 9 Black societies and triad-like organized crime in China PART III Contagion and Evolution Chapter 10 The economic geographies of transnational organised crime Chapter 11 The practice of transnational organized crime Chapter 12 Horizon scanning of global drug markets Chapter 13 The human trafficking-organised crime nexus Chapter 14 Foundations and evolution of the crime-terror nexus Chapter 15 Transnational organised environmental crime Chapter 16 Responding to transnational organized crimes: follow the money Part IV Intensity and Impact Chapter 17 Transnational organised crime and the global village Chapter 18 Cybercrime and transnational organised criminal activity Chapter 19 Ethnicity, mobility and transnational organized crime hapter 20 Women and transnational organized crime: the ambiguous case of the Italian mafias Part V Governance Chapter 21 Italians mafias and the Antimafia movement Chapter 22 Human rights and thló9