Transnational Organized Crime : Analyses of a Global Challenge to Democracy / ed. by Regine Schönenberg, Regine Schönenberg, Annette von Schönfeld, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- II. Transnational Issues of Organized Crime -- 1. Money Laundering: Motives, Methods, Impact, and Countermeasures -- 2. What Do a Tax Evader and a Money Launderer have in Common? The Role of Secrecy in the Financial Sector -- 3. "People should not be punished for being honest!" -- 4. Organized Crime in Cyberspace -- 5. Judicial and Social Conditions for the Containment of Organized Crime: A Best Practice Account -- III. Regional Perspectives -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. Afghanistan -- 2.1 TWO SIDES OF A COIN? STATEBUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME NETWORKS IN AFGHANISTAN -- 2.2 "MIRED IN DECEPTION" - NARCOTICS AND POLITICS IN AFGHANISTAN -- 2.3 HOW TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN AFGHANISTAN: A COMMUNITY PROJECT EXAMPLE -- 3. India -- 3.1 BLACK ECONOMY IN INDIA AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME: UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY -- 4. West Africa -- 4.1 ORGANIZED AND TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN WEST AFRICA -- 5. South Africa -- 5.1 FROM APARTHEID TO 2020: THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZED CRIMINAL NETWORKS IN SOUTH AFRICA -- 6. Mexico -- 6.1 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE WAR AGAINST DRUGS IN MEXICO -- 6.2 Extortion in Everyday Life in Mexico -- 6.3 CIVIL SOCIETY'S STRATEGIES TO CONFRONT GROWING INSECURITY AND VIOLENCE IN MEXICO -- 7. Brazil -- 7.1 VIOLENCE AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN BRAZIL: THE CASE OF "MILITIAS" IN RIO DE JANEIRO -- 7.2 ROOTS OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE AMAZON -- 7.3 IF THE MPF WOULD NOT GO FOR IT, WHO WILL? -- 7.4 UNHOLY ALLIANCES OR CREATIVE PROCESSES? SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACHES POINT OUT NEW WAYS TOWARD LOCAL HARM REDUCTION -- 8. The Balkans -- 8.1 A "BLACK HOLE" IN EUROPE? THE SOCIAL AND DISCURSIVE REALITY OF CRIME IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S TACIT COMPLICITY -- 8.2 TRAFFICKING IN ORGANS, TISSUES, AND CELLS IS SOMETIMES PART OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING -- 9. European Union -- 9.1 ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION - NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES -- 10. Italy -- 10.1 CIVIL SOCIETY'S ROLE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE 'NDRANGHETA -- 10.2 AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO COMBAT THE MAFIA: CONFISCATION OF CRIMINAL ASSETS -- 11. Germany -- 11.1 THE MAFIA AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN GERMANY -- IV. Outlook -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Authors

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Transnational organized crime interferes with the everyday lives of more and more people - and represents a serious threat to democracy. By now, organized crime has become an inherent feature of economic globalization, and the fine line between the legal and illegal operation of business networks is blurred. Additionally, few experts could claim to have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the laws and regulations governing the international flow of trade, and hence of the borderline towards criminal transactions.This book offers contributions from 12 countries around the world authored by 25 experts from a wide range of academic disciplines, representatives from civil society organizations and private industry, journalists, as well as activists. Recognizing the complexity of the issue, this publication provides a cross cultural and multi-disciplinary analysis of transnational organized crime including a historical approach from different regional and cultural contexts.

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