Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-325) and index.

Transnational organized crime : the strange career of an American concept / Michael Woodiwiss -- Predators, parasites, or free-market pioneers : reflections on the nature and analysis of profit-driven crime / R.T. Naylor -- From national to global, from empirical to legal : the ambivalent concept of transnational organized crime / Valsamis Mitsilegas -- The business of bribery : globalization, economic liberalization, and the 'problem' of corruption / James W. Williams and Margaret E. Beare -- Against transnational organized crime / James Sheptycki -- Discourse, identity, and the U.S. 'war on drugs' / Kyle Grayson -- Global markets and crime / Vincenzo Ruggiero -- Organized corporate criminality : corporate complicity in tobacco smuggling / Margaret E. Beare -- The war on drugs and the military : the case of Colombia / Juan G. Ronderos -- Drug trafficking and organized crime in Canada : a study of high-level drug networks / Frederick J. Desroches -- Follow-the-money methods in crime control policy / R.T. Naylor.

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