1. When drug trafficking and money laundering became priorities on the G7's agenda -- 2. From drug trafficking to transnational organized crime -- 3. The G8's involvement in the international mobilization against transnational organized crime -- 4. The creating of expertise on transnational...

The Orinoco Mining Arc (OMA) is in the south of Venezuela, a region rich in minerals and natural resources with a particular social, economic, and security dynamic. Due to its remoteness and difficult access, different actors have found a privileged space to conduct criminal activities....

The re-emergence of ‘black societies’ and triad-like organized crime in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has occurred in the context of rapid modernization, socio-economic change and globalization. Socialist market reforms provided illicit opportunities while regulative uncertainty...

This Article provides theoretical and empirical support for the claim that organized crime competes with the state to provide property rights enforcement and protection services. Drawing on extensive data from Japan, this Article shows that, like firms in regulated environments everywhere, the...

The lack of understanding of the boundaries of economic criminology and the little agreement on the kind of offenses or deviant acts that fall in its substantive focus have invited an evaluation of the characteristics that criminals and/or crimes have to own in order to qualify as "economic...