This unique text explores the expansive topic of transnational organized crime, incorporating expert perspectives found throughout the world's six inhabited continents: North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Editors Jay S. Albanese and Philip L. Reichel gather the knowledge and expertise of numerous authors, researchers, and practitioners in this field who are either native to each world region, have extensively travelled and worked there, or are recognized scholars for those regions. Through this text, readers will begin to understand the geographic, cultural, and regional similarities and differences underying the common threat of transnational organized crime, as well as how to address the global expansion of organized crime today.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Transnational Organized Crime Networks Across the World - Jan van Dijk and Toine Spapens
Chapter 2. Transnational Organized Crime in North America - James O. Finckenauer and Jay Albanese
Chapter 3. Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America - Mary Fran T. Malone and Christine B. Malone-Rowe
Chapter 4. Transnational Organized Crime in Europe - Klaus von Lampe
Chapter 5. Transnational Organized Crime in Africa - Mark Shaw
Chapter 6. Transnational Organized Crime in Asia and the Middle East - Richard H. Ward and Daniel J. Mabrey
Chapter 7. Transnational Organized Crime Oceania - Roderic Broadhurst, Mark Lauchs, and Sally Lohrisch
Chapter 8. Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime - Gus Martin
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
