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This timely book provides contributions on international, comparative crime phenomena: gangs, trafficking, fear of crime, and crime prevention. It highlights contributions originally prepared for the XVII World Congress of Criminology and for the 2015 Cybercrime Conference in Oñati, Spain which have been selected, reviewed, and adapted for inclusion in this volume. The work features international contributors sharing the latest research and approaches from a variety of global regions. The first part examines the impact of gangs on criminal activities and violence. The second part explores illegal trafficking of people, drugs, and other illicit goods as a global phenomenon, aided by the ease of international travel, funds transfer, and communication. Finally, international approaches to crime detection prevention are presented. The work provides case studies and fieldwork that will be relevant across a variety of disciplines and a rich resource for future research. This work is relevant for researchers in criminology and criminal justice, as well as related fields such as international and comparative law, public policy, and public health.

Argues that the only effective way to prevent crime is to support, strengthen, & nurture the family & the community as institutions that generate the social bonds necessary in successfully deterring deviance. Identity, competence, self-direction, & relatedness are essential elements for a healthy community, but the latter's disempowerment creates the potential for disorder, conflict, & crime. Human ecology demonstrates that structural elements in society, eg, political, economic, educational, & religious institutions, affect the family task most clearly connected to crime & violence: childrearing & development. Groups & families that are small, close, & tightly drawn together have the strength to affect repudiation & bonding, exercise powerful control, & foster communal obligations. L. Nguyen

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME: THE GLOBALIZATION OF CRIME -- 1: The Evolution of Espionage Networks and the Crisis of International Terrorism and Global Organized Crime -- 2: The European Union and Organized Crime: Fighting a New Enemy with Many Tentacles -- 3: Confronting Transnational Crime -- PART II: THE CASE STUDIES -- 4: The Infiltration of Organized Crime in the Emilia-Romagna Region: Possible Interpretations for a New Social Defence -- 5: Transnational Organized Crime in Spain: Structural Factors Explaining its Penetration -- 6: Global Organized Crime in Latvia and the Baltics -- 7: Opening and Closing the 49th Parallel: Responses to Free Trade and to Trans-Border Crime in Canada since 1989 -- 8: "Contested Jurisdiction Border Communities" and Cross-Border Crime: The Case of the Akwesasne -- 9: The Use of the "Shining Path" Myth in the Context of the All-Out War Against the "Narco-Guerilla -- 10: Organized Crime in Russia: Domestic and International Problems -- 11: Regionalization and Expansion: The Growth of Organized Crime in East Siberia -- 12: Alienation and Female Criminality: The Case of Puerto Rico -- PART III: PUBLIC POLICY AND INTERVENTIONS -- 13: Criminal Financial Investigations: A Strategic and Tactical Approach in the European Dimension -- 14: Mafia-Type Organizations: The Restoration of Rights as a Preventive Policy -- 15: Repeal Drug Prohibition and End the Financing of International Crime -- 16: The Criminal Justice System Facing the Challenges of Organized Crime