Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering, and Corruption

by Beare, Margaret E.

• ISBN13: 9780802043757
• ISBN10: 0802043755
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Contributors offer a wide range of challenges to commonly-held views on transnational crime and approaches to fighting it, suggesting that current international policies follow an American model that exaggerates its threat out of proportion.

Author Biography

Margaret E. Beare is an associate professor of sociology and law at York University, and is the Director of the Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
MARGARET E. BEARE
1 Transnational Organized Crime: The Strange Career of an American Concept	3	(32)
MICHAEL WOODIWISS
2 Predators, Parasites, or Free-Market Pioneers: Reflections on the Nature and Analysis of Profit-Driven Crime	35	(20)
R.T. NAYLOR
3 From National to Global, from Empirical to Legal: The Ambivalent Concept of Transnational Organized Crime	55	(33)
VALSAMIS MITSILEGAS
4 The Business of Bribery: Globalization, Economic Liberalization, and the 'Problem' of Corruption	88	(32)
JAMES W. WILLIAMS AND MARGARET E. BEARE
5 Against Transnational Organized Crime	120	(25)
JAMES SHEPTYCKI
6 Discourse, Identity, and the U.S. 'War on Drugs'	145	(26)
KYLE GRAYSON
7 Global Markets and Crime	171	(12)
VINCENZO RUGGIERO
8 Organized Corporate Criminality: Corporate Complicity in Tobacco Smuggling	183	(24)
MARGARET E. BEARE
9 The War on Drugs and the Military: The Case of Colombia	207	(30)
JUAN G. RONDEROS
10 Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Canada: A Study of High-Level Drug Networks	237	(19)
FREDERICK J. DESROCHES
11 Follow-the-Money Methods in Crime Control Policy	256	(35)
R.T. NAYLOR
Bibliography	291	(36)
Contributors	327	(4)
Index	331