| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (186 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Business law and corporate risk management collection,
2333-6730
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Business law and corporate risk management collection.
2333-6730
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction: revisiting and revising organized crime -- Chapter 2. Welcome to the gig (crime) economy -- Chapter 3. Why smaller/more flexible cell-like nodes and networks? -- Chapter 4. The criminogenic network and role of legitimate financial institutions -- Chapter 5. Overview of the size of the problem -- Chapter 6. Traditional organized crime (e.g., mafia) -- Chapter 7. Historical overview: a few key concepts -- Chapter 8. Japan (i.e., Yakuza) -- Chapter 9. Italy (e.g., La Cosa Nostra) -- Chapter 10. United States (e.g., Al Capone, the "five families") -- Chapter 11. Notes on ontology of organized crime -- Chapter 12. Event-based (i.e., the study of criminal events and collective action as the basis for conclusions) -- Chapter 13. Epistemology and sources of knowledge -- Chapter 14. Operations and functioning of organized crime groups -- Chapter 15. Transformation of organized crime groups in theory and practice -- Chapter 16. Organized crime and new participants -- Chapter 17. Professions and the new organized crime: control -- Chapter 18. The future of organized crime. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
Organized crimes (e.g., weapons trafficking, drug distribution, white collar crime) persist globally due primarily to the power of modern information and communication technology (e.g., computer-based networks in the open and dark webs) to facilitate organization and the enhanced liquidity provided by electronic transfers (in effect, e-capital) to distribute criminal proceeds in the same covert and high-speed manner used by the so-called legitimate commercial enterprises. Offshore banking in tax secrecy and tax haven jurisdictions facilitates both the socially accepted process commonly known as tax avoidance, for example, and the notorious practice commonly known as tax evasion: the former is lawful; the latter is illicit. The dirty secret of how transnational organized economic crime persists lies in global finance, especially transactions using the U.S. dollar in safe havens (e.g., the West uses the Cayman Islands; the East uses Cyprus). Regulators, monitors, auditors, and other specialists in conducting transaction review do not readily and timely tell the difference between high valued transfers that involve true sales of licit goods from high valued transfers that involve the laundering of proceeds from human trafficking, drug distribution, arms sales, and so on. |
| Form |
Also available in print. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader. |
| Provenance |
Purchased with the Phippen Library Fund. |
| Subject |
Organized crime.
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Organized crime. |
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Transnational crime.
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Transnational crime. |
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Electronic funds transfers.
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Electronic funds transfers. |
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Risk assessment.
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Risk assessment. |
| Indexed Term |
Organized crime. |
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Organized economic crime. |
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Transnational organized crime. |
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Mafia. |
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Gig economy. |
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Risk assessment. |
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Global finance. |
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Drug distribution. |
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Firearms offenses. |
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Five families. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781953349842 |
| ISBN |
9781953349859 e-book |
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9781953349842 print |
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