Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished either with fewer resources or by investing...

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 Friman -- Illicit commerce in peripheral states / William...

Yearly revenues from transnational criminal activity account for USD 1 to 1.6 trillion, and a wide variety of methods is employed to transfer those revenues across borders and launder it. The specific type of crime largely determines the choice of methods. Terrorists, for example, use both...