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Intro -- ORGANIZED CRIME: CHALLENGES, TRENDS AND REDUCTION STRATEGIES -- ORGANIZED CRIME: CHALLENGES, TRENDS AND REDUCTION STRATEGIES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 ORGANIZED CRIME: AN EVOLVING CHALLENGE FOR U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT* -- Summary -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing Organized Crime -- Agency Definitions -- Hazy Boundaries -- Statutory Definition -- Organized Crime Adapting to Globalization -- Borders as Opportunity -- Copycats and Smugglers -- Counterfeiting and Piracy -- Auto Theft Rings -- Human Smuggling and Trafficking -- Drug Trafficking -- Money Laundering -- Organized Crime and Technological Change -- Mass Marketing Fraud -- Technology Transforms Advance Fee Fraud (AFF) -- Cyberspace, Electronic Information, and Organized Crime -- Online Identity Theft and Sophisticated Credit Card Fraud -- Organized Retail Crime and Online Fencing -- Bulk Narcotics Smuggling and Technology -- Cross-Border Tunnels -- Exploitation of Ethnic Diaspora Communities -- Changing Structures -- Network Models -- Blurring of Forms -- Advantage: Networks Challenge Law Enforcement -- Disadvantage: Networks Have Exploitable Weaknesses -- Corruption -- "Ground-Level" Exploitation of Private Businesses -- Big Business and Organized Criminals -- Corruption of Public Officials -- Organized Crime, a "National Security" and "Public Security" Concern -- Issues -- Revisiting the Organized Crime Definition -- Congressional Commission -- Incentives for Investigating Organized Crime -- Coordination of Domestic Efforts -- National Strategy to Combat Organized Crime -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES: TRENDS AND ISSUES FOR CONGRESS* -- Summary -- Introduction -- Definitions of Organized Crime -- Statutory Definition -- Background -- Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act -- The Organized Crime Control Act and RICO