Transnational Organized Crime: Myth, Power, and Profit Emilio C. Viano, Jose Magallanes, ... Carolina Academic Press, 2003 Recent changes in the global economy and in international political alignments have greatly benefited the criminal underworld. There is no question that modern organized crime, adroitly exploiting trends and changes in the global economy is acquiring transnational capabilities and conducting transnational operations. What has been learned about terrorism since the September 11, 2001 events ...             Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering: A Handbook for Law Enforcement ...3 reviews James R. Richards CRC, 1998 A very good choice! + should be a bestseller + An Excellent, Deatiled and Highly Informative Work! My father wrote this book. Even though I am only eleven years old I already want his job. I love to read and learn and I am very interested in this field. I read his book and I can finally understand what he's talking about at the dinner table! He now tells me about his cases in the car and I ...             The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade20 reviews Victor Malarek Arcade Publishing, 2004 Powerful book that delves deep into Human Trafficking!!! + The book that started my research + A brilliant call to action I read this book while on vacation and once I started reading I could not stop. I read the entire book within 24 hours! It is simply amazing and quite powerful. In shocking detail the author describes as to what happens to people mostly young teenage women from Eastern Europe that are victims ...             Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible13 reviews Douglas Farah, Stephen Braun Wiley, 2007 Gun Running for Fun and Profit. + Dry, maybe... but very informative and essential knowledge This well-written book was delivered on time and in good condition. My review title is light-hearted, the subject of the book is not. This is an inside look at the rise of Victor Bout, a former Soviet Air Force officer, as the superstar of modern gun running. The details of how he did it, and ...             Transnational Organized Crime in the West African Region United Nations Pubns, 2005             Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations1 review Peter Andreas, Ethan Nadelmann Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Sophisticated Analysis, Slight Bias This is a comprehensive overview of international policing using a sophisticated and synthetic theoretical approach. However, the theory largely takes a backseat to the empirical narrative. There is a slight civil libertarian bias, especially with respect to the war on drugs. Finally, some of ...             Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World (California Series in Public Anthropology)3 reviews Carolyn Nordstrom University of California Press, 2007 Good social science, good stories + Change your thinking + Crucial Reading For Those Interested in International Affairs An intriguing look at the culture and economy of smuggling and other illegal commerce, Global Outlaws opens many windows to provide a wide range of perspectives on the illegal economy, from the selling of a single smuggled cigarette in an African town to the movement of shipping containers (and ...             Transnational Organised Crime: The Policy and Politics of Global Crime (Transnational Crime) Anne Edwards Routledge, 2003 The perceived threat of 'transnational organized crime' to Western societies has been of huge interest to politicians, policy-makers and social scientists over the last decade. This book considers the origins of this crime, how it has been defined and measured and the appropriateness of governments' policy responses. The authors also question whether transnational organized crime will retain its ...             All Is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime (International ...1 review Alan A. Block, Constance A. Weaver Praeger Publishers, 2004 Too many details, it misses the point. I was expecting less details on names, dates, who-knows-who and who-did-what and more on the financial implications and banking wrongdoings of the whole case. This book is too full of details that do not really matter much and fails to address the big picture that its title leads us to beleive on. ...             Asian Transnational Organized Crime James O. Finckenauer, Ko-Lin Chin Nova Science Publishers, 2006             Political Corruption: In and Beyond the Nation State Robert Harris Routledge, 2003 In Politics and Corruption , Robert Harris argues that any analysis of political corruption focusing on the nation-state or on miscreant individuals has been rendered obsolete by developments in globalized finance and international organized crime. Rather poltical corruption involves the extension of the normal processes of politics into illegitimate areas of activity where self-serving ...             Illicit Trafficking: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)1 review Robert Kelly, Jesse Maghan, ... ABC-CLIO, 2005 The Global Nature of Crime In Illicit Trafficking, authors Jess Maghan, Joseph D. Serio, and Robert J. Kelly have produced a well-researched resource on the ever-increasing problem of transnational crime. The authors do a credible job of addressing the various forms of international crime: drug trafficking, money ...             The Global Underworld: Transnational Crime and the United States (International and Comparative Criminology)1 review Donald R. Liddick Praeger Publishers, 2004 The Global Underworld : Transnational Crime and the United States very informative and also claryfing             Transnational and Comparative Criminology James Sheptycki Routledge Cavendish, 2005 This book examines the issues of crime and its control in the 21st century - an era of human history where people live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world. It is one of the very few books that examines crime and its control in a global and translational context. The volume contains 15 chapters, which are written by well-established academic criminologists from different ...             The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China2 reviews Andrew C. Mertha Cornell University Press, 2007 IP in China, a primer + A valuable contribution to the study of IPR in China Andrew Mertha's book made my life harder. Deep in the writing of a paper on Chinese intellectual property, I received word that his book was available days before a deadline. That alone makes him a target of my ire. But ultimately, my research benefited from this book. Mertha weaves a tale that ...             The Encyclopedia Of International Organized Crime1 review Carlo Devito Checkmark Books, 2005 Too much information taken from the Internet Fortunately, I bought this book new, for 1/3 of the list price from an Amazon affiliate, which tempers my annoyance with the poor quality of this book. While I appreciate the honesty and avoidance of plagurism by listing the sources of the information, nearly every article in the encyclopedia is ...             Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice2 reviews Philip L. Reichel Sage Pubns, 2005 a very comprehensive reference material + If only one book on the topic of transnational crime issues is needed for a college collection, it should be this. I bought this book when I was still in the Philippines and I am currently using this in my master's degree program here in one of the most respected universities in the world. It helped me a lot to gain a much deeper understanding about transnational crimes and similarly laid the framework to ...             Trafficking And Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives On Migration, Sex Work, And Human Rights ...4 reviews Kamala Kempadoo (Editor) Paradigm Publishers, 2005 LEGALIZE ADULT PROSTITUTION + Excellent + Deserves a wider audience Prostitution between consenting adults (adults!) should have been decriminalized generations ago. The primary reason it's still on our criminal statute books is because Christian fundamentalists still have a grip on our legislative branch. And of course no politician would ever have the stones to ...             Multinational Crime: Terrorism, Espionage, Drug and Arms Trafficking (Studies in Crime, Law, and Criminal ... John M. Martin, Anne T. Romano Sage Publications, Inc, 1992 When is a crime not a crime? Is espionage "spying" when national security is at stake? Do governments participate in arms trafficking when supplying revolutionaries the means to overthrow a despot? In a departure from past research, Martin and Romano explore multinational crime from a criminological perspective. Proceeding from an interactionist as well as a socio-cultural conflict theory, the ...             Cybercrime: The Investigation, Prosecution and Defense of a Computer-Related Crime1 review Darlene Demelo Moreau, Miriam Miquelon-weismann, ... Carolina Academic Press, 2006 Go Elsewhere! I puchased this book based on a reference in another text and was sorely disappointed. It is made up of four chapters and an introduction. The text is heavily footnoted but, fortunately, they appear at the bottom of the page. The chapter on "Defining Cybercrime" is mainly a rehash of code ...