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Transnational organized crime poses a serious threat to the international community. This volume, the product of a UN conference, discusses the dangers of transnational organized crime and identifies forms of regional, national and international co-operation for its prevention and control, including intelligence networks, preventive strategies, extradition treaties, criminalizing participation in criminal organizations and the elaboration of an international convention. The reduction and subsequent containment of transnational organized crime require governments not only to recognize the serio

This volume brings together a series of original contributions made by international experts dedicated to guiding efforts in preventing crime. The collection is divided into seven sections that cover cutting edge approaches to crime prevention: 1) the offenders' perspective on crime prevention2) crime script analysis 3) crime mapping and spatial analysis4) social network analysis5) agent-based modelling6) crime-proofing legislations 7) technologies of crime preventionEach section includes one theoretical chapter to introduce the research approach followed by a series of empirical/applied contributions. The theoretical chapter aims to introduce and explain the approach of interest and discusses under which circumstances this strategy could best assist crime prevention. The objective of empirical/applied contributions is simply to showcase how these approaches can be apply. This collection can be seen as the end result of the convergence of novel ideas and analytical skills in the area of crime and crime prevention worldwide. It will be of interest to researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, as well as related fields like Sociology and Psychology, Security, Urban Planning, and Public Policy.

The trafficking of human beings is a major worldwide problem. Due to the scarcity, unreliability and non-comparability of existing data in the various affected countries there are serious difficulties related to the development of a comprehensive counter-strategy.Although there has been some improvement in the last years, the statistics on human trafficking that are available internationally are still highly unsatisfactory.There is an urgent need for a structured system to monitor this crime, a system that assesses and quantifies the illegal activity and provides the same set of quantitative and qualitative data for different countries. It should also registrate the level of response and the compliance to the requests set by the United Nations in their Protocol on trafficking in human beings. A body of information of this kind would yield profound knowledge on the problems and circumstances of people involved in the trade. The data could then be analysed with the overall goal of devising new solutions at both the national and supranational levels.In the light of the above-mentioned issues, this book starts with analysing various definitions used and thereafter the complexity of phenomena that impair the collection and comparability of data on human trafficking. Finally different approaches, both quantitative and qualitative are compared and discussed, with the aim of coming to an effective monitoring system.

Transnational organized crime poses one of the most serious threats to international security in the 1990s. Its significance was marked by the World Ministerial Conference on transnational organized crime held in Naples in November 1994. Convened by the United Nations to discuss the dangers caused by cross -border organized crime and to identify forms of international cooperation for its prevention and control, the conference brought together ministers from 142 states. This volume examines transnational criminal organizations and their activities; global money-laundering; the substantive and procedural measures which need to be taken at national level if governments are to be effective in the struggle against organized crime; bilateral, regional and global cooperation; and the advantages and shortcomings of an international convention. The reduction and subsequent containment of transnational organized crime require governments not only to recognize the seriousness of the threat it poses, but also to allocate resources to meet it. This volume discusses what needs to be done if governments are to be effective in combating the criminal enterprises which have decided to challenge lawful institutions and civilized society.

Introduction / Ernesto U. Savona -- Organised criminals and the legal economy / Giulia Berlusconi -- Measuring organised crime infiltration in legal businesses / Michele Riccardi and Giulia Berlusconi PART I: INFILTRATING LEGITIMATE BUSINESSES TO CONCEAL AND FACILITATE ILLICIT TRAFFICKING -- Transportation companies to hide transit crimes : organised crime infiltration in the Netherlands / Joras Ferwerda and Brigitte Unger -- The sex market, bars and nightclubs : criminal infiltration in Slovenia / Botjan Slak, Maja Modic, Katja Eman and Branko Aman -- From drug trafficking to wholesale trade busines :. organised crime infiltration in Spain / Jesús Palomo, Jerónimo Márquez and Pilar Laguna -- Infiltrating legitimate businesses to develop fraud schemes -- Social welfare fraud and criminal infiltration in Sweden / Johanna Skinnari, Lars Korsell and Helena Rönnblom -- Crash-for-cash and vat carousels : organised crime infiltration in the United Kingdom / David Wall, Yulia Chistyakova and Stefano Bonino -- Infiltrating legitimate businesses to control the territory and influence policy makers -- Mafia infiltration in legitimate companies in Italy : from traditional sectors to emerging businesses / Michele Riccardi, Cristina Soriani and Valentina Giampietri -- Grand banditisme traditionnel and foreign groups : organised crime infiltration in France / Michele Riccardi and Diana Camerini -- From bikers to entrepreneurs : motorcycle gangs infiltration in Finland / Sarianna Petrell and Jarmo Houtsonen -- Research and policy implications -- The impact of organised crime infiltration on the European legitimate economy / John Walker -- From the analysis of criminal infiltration to the assessment of its risk / Lorella Garofalo Conclusions / Ernesto U. Savona