Organized Crime Books

New and Published Books

1. Crime and Networks

   Edited by Carlo Morselli

   Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

   This innovative collection of original essays showcases the use of social networks in the analysis and understanding of various forms of crime. More than any other past research endeavor, the seventeen chapters in this book apply to criminology the many conceptual and methodological options from...

   Published September 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Studies in Gangs and Cartels

   By Robert J. Bunker, John P. Sullivan

   Concerns over the changing nature of gangs and cartels and their relationships to states in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has resulted in the emergence of a scholarly body of work focused on their national security threat potentials. This body of work, utilizing the third generation gangs...

   Published August 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas

   The Gangs and Cartels Wage War

   Edited by Robert Bunker

   In recent years, the south-western border of the United States has come under increasing pressure from the activities of Mexican narco-insurgents. These insurgents have developed rapidly from beginnings as nebulous gangs into networked cartels that have exposed the porosity of the border. These...

   Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Crime-Terror Nexus in South Asia

   States, Security and Non-State Actors

   By Ryan Clarke

   Series: Asian Security Studies

   This book examines the crime-terror nexus in South Asia, focusing in particular on the activities of non-state actors that operate out of Pakistan, and challenges the conventional wisdom that the Pakistan Taleban (TTP) and Al-Qaeda are Pakistan’s most serious security threats. Much research has...

   Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
5. Peace Operations and Organized Crime

   Enemies or Allies?

   Edited by James Cockayne, Adam Lupel

   Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping

   Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community’s fight against organized crime; this book explores how, in some cases, peace operations and organized crime are clear enemies, while in others, they may become tacit allies. The threat posed by organized crime to...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
6. Policing Serious Crime in China

   From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer'

   By Susan Trevaskes

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Despite a resurgence in the number of studies of Chinese social control over the past decade or so, no sustained work in English has detailed the recent developments in policy and practice against serious crime, despite international recognition that Chinese policing of serious crime is relatively...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Crime-Terror Alliances and the State

   Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security

   By Lyubov Grigorova Mincheva, Ted Robert Gurr

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate. "Unholy alliances" is a term used to describe hybrid trans-border militant and criminal networks that pose serious threats to security in...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. Somalia: State Collapse, Terrorism and Piracy

   Edited by Brian Hesse

   The situation in Somalia today embodies some of the most pressing issues in international relations. How should the international community deal with the collapsed state that is Somalia? From the presence of al-Qaeda operatives to pirates, to what extent is Somalia a threat to global peace and...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Intersections of Crime and Terror

   Edited by James J.F. Forest

   During the last ten years an increasing number of government and media reports, scholarly books and journal articles, and other publications have focused our attention on the expanded range of interactions between international organized crime and terrorist networks. A majority of these...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. Organised Sexual Abuse

    By Michael Salter

    Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups or networks. These allegations have been...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge