Contemporary Organized Crime: Developments, Challenges and Responses, Edition 2
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This edited volume explores recent research and developments in the study of organized crime. It covers six key areas: drug-related issues; human trafficking and prostitution; sports and crime; procurement and corruption; and enforcement and prevention.
The contributors provide timely research for understanding various aspects of organized crime, as well as the responses that have been developed worldwide to prevent and contain them. These contributions were presented at seminars of the Centre for Information and Research on Organized Crime (CIROC). It will be of interest to researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, particularly with an interest in organized crime and criminal networks, as well as related fields such as Comparative Law, and Political Science.
This collection represents the most current thinking on entrenched problems of organized crime....This book is an important contribution in developing new approaches to organized crime and its control.
— Jay S. Albanese, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Criminal Justice Programs, Virginia Commonwealth University
The book is very well organised and written and deals with a diversity of topics and approaches.
— Ernesto U.Savona, Director of Transcrime, Professor of Criminology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
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Nelen published a large number of books and articles on a variety ofcriminological subjects, i.e. corruption and fraud, organized crime, money laundering, legal professionals, the administrative approach to organized crime, cross-border police cooperation and sports and crime.
Dina Siegel is Professor of Criminology at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She studied sociology and social anthropology at the Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and obtained her PhD in cultural anthropology at the VU University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Siegel worked between 2001-2008 as an assistant professor at the Institute of Criminology of the VU University Amsterdam. From 2009 onwards she has been working as a Professor of Criminology at Utrecht University.
Dina Siegel has studied and published many articles and books on Post-Soviet organized crime, human trafficking and prostitution, organized crime in the diamond sector, drugs, underground banking and mobile banditry.
