Global Crime Today: The Changing Face of Organised Crime

Crime is recognized as a constant factor within human society, but in the twenty-first century organized crime is emerging as one of the distinctive security threats of the new world order. The more complex, organized and interconnected society becomes, its crime becomes too. This book recognizes that the new century will be defined in part by a struggle between an ?upperworld?, defined by increasingly open economic systems and democratic politics, and a transnational, entrepreneurial, dynamic and richly varied underworld, willing and able to use and distort these trends for its own ends. In order to understand this challenge, this book gathers together experts from a variety of fields to understand how organized crime is changing. From the Sicilian Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza, to the new challenges of Russian and East European gangs and the ?virtual mafias? of the cybercriminals, this book offers a clear and concise introduction to many of the key players moving in this global criminalunderworld. This book is a special issue of Global Crime

Introduction: the Changing Face of Global Crime (Mark Galeotti, Keele University) North American Organised Crime (Jay Albanese, US National Institute of Justice) Italian Organised Crime (Letizia Paoli, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany) Globalisation and Latin American and Caribbean Organised Crime (Bruce Bagley, University of Miami) The Russian 'Mafiya': consolidation and globalisation (Mark Galeotti, Keele University) Organised Crime in East Central Europe (Kelly Hignett, Keele University) Chinese Organised Crime (Bertil Lintner, Asia Pacific Media Services) The Changing Face of the Yakuza (Peter Hill, Oxford University) State Crime: North Korean drug trafficking (Rafael Perl, Congressional Research Service) The Crime-Terror Continuum (Tamara Makarenko, St Andrews University) The Global Dimension of Cybercrime (Peter Grabosky, Australian National University)