illicit markets have grown rapidly with the opening up of trade and development of China, India and ASEAN boosted by … infrastructure development and increased wealth. Traditional crime groups have re-vitalized and new entrepreneurial crime groups have … considers how responses to transnational crime can amplify or diminish its hidden power …

This Article presents a novel theory of the political economy of transnational crime control, answering three … consecutive questions. First, why does crime travel across national borders? The Article demonstrates that in the globalized … economy, profit-driven crime (e.g., money laundering, drug trafficking, gaming and the sex trade) responds - much like …

Crime and globalization / H. Richard Friman -- The internationalization of crime control / Peter Andreas and Ethan … Nadelmann -- Crime, sovereignty and the offshore world / Ronen Palan -- Externalizing the costs of prohibition / H. Richard … -- Governing finance in the war on terror / Marieke de Goede -- Immigrants and organized crime / Herman Schwartz -- Drug …

Crime has historically been a local phenomenon. Most murder victims know their killers; most victims of child abuse … know their abusers; victims of theft often need not look beyond their own neighborhoods for the thieves. Crime is regulated … cases. Globalization is changing this in ways that have yet to be fully explored. Although crime as an event will always …