Contemporary Organized Crime: Developments, Challenges and Responses, Hardcover

This edited volume explores recent research and developments in the study of organized crime. It covers six key areas: drug-related issues; human trafficking and prostitution; sports and crime; procurement and corruption; and enforcement and prevention.

The contributors provide timely research for understanding various aspects of organized crime, as well as the responses that have been developed worldwide to prevent and contain them. These contributions were presented at seminars of the Centre for Information and Research on Organized Crime (CIROC). It will be of interest to researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, particularly with an interest in organized crime and criminal networks, as well as related fields such as Comparative Law, and Political Science.

This collection represents the most current thinking on entrenched problems of organized crime....This book is an important contribution in developing new approaches to organized crime and its control.

-- Jay S. Albanese, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Criminal Justice Programs, Virginia Commonwealth University

The book is very well organised and written and deals with a diversity of topics and approaches.

-- Ernesto U.Savona, Director of Transcrime, Professor of Criminology, Universit Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan

About author(s):Hans Nelen is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He has an academic background in both criminology and law. Between 1986 and the beginning of 2001, Nelen was employed as a senior researcher and research supervisor at the Research and Documentation Centre of the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands (WODC), mainly involved in drug, fraud, organized crime, corporate crime and police research. Between 2001 and 2006 he was a senior lecturer/associate professor and senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology of the VU University Amsterdam. Since January 1 2007 Nelen has been working as a professor of criminology at Maastricht University (UM). He is also director of the master programme in Forensics, Criminology and Law and Chair of the Centre for Information and Research on Organized Crime (CIROC).

Nelen published a large number of books and articles on a variety of criminological subjects, i.e. corruption and fraud, organized crime, money laundering, legal professionals, the administrative approach to organized crime, cross-border police cooperation and sports and crime.

Dina Siegel is Professor of Criminology at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She studied sociology and social anthropology at the Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and obtained her PhD in cultural anthropology at the VU University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Siegel worked between 2001-2008 as an assistant professor at the Institute of Criminology of the VU University Amsterdam. From 2009 onwards she has been working as a Professor of Criminology at Utrecht University.

Dina Siegel has studied and published many articles and books on Post-Soviet organized crime, human trafficking and prostitution, organized crime in the diamond sector, drugs, underground banking and mobile banditry.