Challenging organized crime in the Western hemisphere : a game of moves and countermoves / Philip B. Heymann and Stephen P. Heymann

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781138595354 | 0429488319. | Erscheint auch als: Challenging organized crime in the Western hemisphere. Druck-Ausgabe New York, NY : Routledge, 2018DDC classification:
  • 364.106 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6441
Online resources: Summary: 6 The Mechanisms and Difficulties of Traditional Law Enforcement in Addressing Organized CrimeThe Familiar Goals of Prosecution Are Not Well Suited for Organized Crime; Crimes Most Often Committed by Organized Criminal Groups-The Sale of Contraband, Public Corruption and Extortion…; The Traditional Mechanisms of Presenting Evidence to a Neutral Fact-Finder Are Actively Undermined by Organized ...; Organized Crime Groups and the Law Enforcement Officers Investigating Them Compete in a Structured Way; 7 Creating a Law Enforcement Capacity to Address the Advantages of Organized CrimeSummary: Cover; Endorsement; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Table of contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Part One The Business of Organized Crime (OC); 1 What is Organized Crime?; Countering Organized Crime; 2 The Sinaloa Cartel as a Concrete Example; Introduction; History of the Sinaloa Cartel; Structure and Operations of the Sinaloa Cartel; Business Lines; Distribution; Money Laundering; Bribery; Another Great "El Chapo" Escape; "El Chapo"-Hero or Outlaw; El Chapo Recaptured; Notes; 3 Strategies for a State Addressing Organized CrimeSummary: Choosing Applicable Instruments of State ForceAlliances; 5 Detecting Visible Indications of Organized Crime; Introduction; The Signs of Illegality: Activities and Capacities; The Traces Left By Corruption and Intimidation; Detectable Traces of Exploitation of International Law: Transnational Operations; The Detectable Traces Left By Unrestrained Competition: Killings and Building the Capacities for Warfare; Juárez As An Example; Organizational Form, Finance, and Strategy; Patterns of Routine Operations; Part Two Law Enforcement on SteroidsSummary: Discrete Concerns, Broad Goals, and Overall Strategies for a State Addressing Organized CrimeThree Specific Strategies That, If Successful, Would Reduce These Concerns; What Focusing on Particular Concerns Would Require; How Serious is the Threat Posed by the Activities of Organized Crime?; 4 A Final Issue of State Strategy: Rules of War or Law Enforcement; Choosing the Applicable System of Rules; The Choice to Bypass the Familiar Protections of Domestic Law; The Alternative Decision to Accept and Apply to Organized Crime Most of the Protections of Criminal Law and of theSummary: Reallocating Responsibility and Building New Organizational StructuresNewly Available Investigative Techniques and Targets; New Substantive Statutes; A Word of Caution; 8 New Strategies for Prosecutors of Organized Crime; The Investigation Begins; 9 A Double-Edged Sword: How Improved Law Enforcement Aided Whitey Bulger; Early Crimes in a New Era; New Tools Against Organized Crime, 1960-1970; The Irish Gang Wars: 1965-1972; Taking Down La Cosa Nostra: 1975-1984; Boston in the 1980s: The End of the Mob, the Beginning of Organized Crime; Bulger's Informant History; Recruiting BulgerPPN: PPN: 1685660460Package identifier: Produktsigel: BSZ-4-NLEBK-KAUB | ZDB-4-NLEBK
No physical items for this record
KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association                         Home | Impressum | Datenschutz | Barrierefreiheit | KIT

Powered by Koha