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In this Handbook, editor Philip Reichel has brought together renowned scholars from around the world to offer various perspectives providing global coverage of the increasingly transnational nature of crime and the attempts to provide cooperative cross-national responses. This volume not only has a comprehensive introduction to the topic of transnational crime but also provides specific examples such as international terrorism, drug trafficking, and money laundering to illustrate this ever expanding phenomenon. The Handbook also examines cross-national and international efforts by police, courts, international agencies, and correctional authorities to deal with transnational crime. Part IV concludes the book by addressing emerging issues in transnational crime and justice with particular attention given to transnational organized crime in all regions of the world.
Organized Crime in Latin America
Organized Crime in Latin America
The intellectual and legal tradition in Latin America that makes a categorical distinction between politically motivated and common everyday criminality is a long one. This has been one of the obstacles to confronting organized crime in the region in an efficacious manner. This chapter argues that the line that separates criminal organizations from insurgent groups, or terrorists, is increasingly tenuous, confused, and irrelevant for the purposes of internal security. The chapter is divided into four sections. In the first part, the theories from which the recommendation to distinguish the rebel from the criminal is derived are summarized and the limitations of this proposal to the understanding of Latin American reality are demonstrated. In part two, evidence ...
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