Book Info
Organised Crime, Trafficking, Drugs: Selected Papers Presented at the Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, HEUNI report # 42
Sami Nevala and Kauko Aromaa
(paperback)
2004, pages
ISBN: 952-5333-18-3
$38.00
Twenty-one papers on organized crime – including trafficking in human beings and corruption -- are reproduced from presentations at the 2003 annual conference of the European Society of Criminology. Twelve of the 21 papers relate to organized crime in Eastern Europe. Topics include (among others): banking fraud and stock manipulation in Russia; protection of underwater cultural heritage in the Mediterranean Sea; organized crime in Estonia, Lithuania and Ukraine; contemporary Russian corruption; human trafficking of women and children and other groups in Europe; smuggling through Abkhazia and South Ossetia; criminal networks; corruption and money laundering in Georgia; white-collar crime and corruption in transitional countries; the impact of transnational organized crime on law enforcement; international trafficking in human organs; and proposed changes in Czech legislation on illegal drugs.
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