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_aDefining and defying organized crime: discourse, perceptions and reality/ _cedited by Felia Allum ... [et al.]. |
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_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2010. |
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_axx, 231 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm. |
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504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [200]-223) and index. | ||
505 | _aList of contributors Foreword by Monica den Boer Acknowledgements Figures and tables Introduction: deconstruction in progress: towards a better understanding of organized crime? - Felia Allum and Panos A. Kostakos Part I : Discourse and Definitions 1. Discoursing organized crime: towards a two level analysis? - Franecesca Longo 2. The criminal not the crime: practitioner discourse and the policing of organized crime in England and Wales - Clive Hartfield 3. The evolution of the European Union's understanding of organized crime and its embedment in EU discourse - Helena Carrapico 4. International policy discourses on transnational organized crime: the role of an international expertise - Amandine Scherrer Part II: Perceptions 5. Transnational Organized Crime and the Global Security Agenda: Different Perceptions and Conflicting strategies? - Daniela Irrera 6. Evolving perceptions of organized crime: the use of RICO in the United States - Joseph Wheatley 7. The Yakuza and its perceived threat - Sayaka Fukumi 8. The social perception of organized crime in the Balkans: a world of diverging views? - Jana Arsovska and Panos A. Kostakos Part III: Reality 9. The fire behind the smoke: the realities of human trafficking in Northern Ireland - Louise Deegan 10. Organized crime in transition-era Bulgaria: the elites and the state - Marina Tzevtkova 11. Organized crime and local politics in contemporary Italy: willing or unwilling bedfellows? - Felia Allum 12. The crime-terror nexus: do threat perceptions align with 'reality'? - Tamara Makarenko Conclusion: Getting to grips with the deconstruction of organized crime - Francesca Longo and Daniela Irrera | ||
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