Expecting Armageddon: Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy

by Stone,Jon R.; Stone,Jon R.

• ISBN13: 9780415923309
• ISBN10: 0415923301
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The expectation of an end to time and the yearning for a millennial paradise have been recurring themes in Western religious thought. But when we speak of "expectation" of the world's end we are mindful of the fact that generation after generation of millenarians have been disappointed. Their endtime hopes and prophecies have not come true. What happens, one might ask, when prophecies fail? Does failure spell the end of the very movements that embrace such expectations? The aim of this anthology is to gather together in one volume the essential research from the fields of sociology and psychology that seeks to answer this intriguing question as first raised by Festinger in his 1956 work, "When Prophecy Fails." Cross-cultural and comparative, this collection chronicles forty years of research into failed prophecy and response to the attending cognitive dissonance it produces that is at once timely and informative.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Transnational Organized Crime: An Overview	p. 1
International Organized Crime, National Security, and the "Market State"	p. 39
Offshore Money	p. 57
Smuggling Wars: Law Enforcement and Law Evasion in a Changing World	p. 85
Transnational Criminal Enterprise: The European Perspective	p. 99
The Impact of the Illegal Drug Industry on Colombia	p. 117
The Decentralization Imperative and Caribbean Criminal Enterprises	p. 143
Transnational Criminal Organizations in Bolivia	p. 171
Semiorganized International Crime: Drug Trafficking in Mexico	p. 193
Bad Business: A Commentary on the Criminology of Organized Crime in the United States	p. 217
Conclusion: Fighting Transnational Organized Crime: Measures Short of War	p. 245
Contributors	p. 297
Index	p. 301
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