The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime (Oxford Handbooks)

While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal organizations like the Cosa Nostra or the Japanese Yakuza have seen their power reduced, organized crime remains a concern for many governments.Economic globalization and the easing of restrictions on exchanges across borders now provide ample opportunity for money-making activities in illegal markets.Policies designed to stop illegal market flows often shift these activities to new places or create new problems, as the U.S.- led war on drugs spread production and trafficking to a number South and Central American countries.The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime provides informed, authoritative, and comprehensive overviews of these issues and other principal forms of organized crime, as well as the type and effectiveness of efforts to prevent and control them.Leading scholars from criminology, law, sociology, history, and political science disc