Edited by Barry Rider, OBE, Professorial Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

‘The 1986 US President’s Commission on Organized Crime concluded that the problem with defining “organized crime” was not with the word crime, but rather with the word organized. In this valuable contribution to the literature on what it is agreed is a multifaceted, understudied topic, a fruitful mix of authors from academic, policy and practitioner backgrounds provide an agenda for better understanding and thus confronting organized crime. This roadmap should stimulate much needed research on a matter of global concern.’

• Contents:Foreword xiiiPreface xvii1 Organised crime – what we know and what wethink we know! 1Professor Barry Rider OBE2 Organised crime and power in the modern world 57Anna Sergi3 Organised crime and society 77William Tupman4 Organized crime, structures and operations 93Peter M. German5 Organised crime and business 113Kenneth Murray6 Research issues that could be addressed to betteridentify and interdict the assets of organisedcriminals in the UK 135Jeffrey Bryant7 Organised crime – offshore and international aspects 155Dominic Thomas-James8 Organised crime – the cyber dimension 179Dionysios Demetis9 The disruption of crime 197Shima D KeeneIndex

Edited by Barry Rider, OBE, Professorial Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

‘The 1986 US President’s Commission on Organized Crime concluded that the problem with defining “organized crime” was not with the word crime, but rather with the word organized. In this valuable contribution to the literature on what it is agreed is a multifaceted, understudied topic, a fruitful mix of authors from academic, policy and practitioner backgrounds provide an agenda for better understanding and thus confronting organized crime. This roadmap should stimulate much needed research on a matter of global concern.’

• Contents:Foreword xiiiPreface xvii1 Organised crime – what we know and what wethink we know! 1Professor Barry Rider OBE2 Organised crime and power in the modern world 57Anna Sergi3 Organised crime and society 77William Tupman4 Organized crime, structures and operations 93Peter M. German5 Organised crime and business 113Kenneth Murray6 Research issues that could be addressed to betteridentify and interdict the assets of organisedcriminals in the UK 135Jeffrey Bryant7 Organised crime – offshore and international aspects 155Dominic Thomas-James8 Organised crime – the cyber dimension 179Dionysios Demetis9 The disruption of crime 197Shima D KeeneIndex

Edited by Barry Rider, OBE, Professorial Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

‘The 1986 US President’s Commission on Organized Crime concluded that the problem with defining “organized crime” was not with the word crime, but rather with the word organized. In this valuable contribution to the literature on what it is agreed is a multifaceted, understudied topic, a fruitful mix of authors from academic, policy and practitioner backgrounds provide an agenda for better understanding and thus confronting organized crime. This roadmap should stimulate much needed research on a matter of global concern.’

• Contents:Foreword xiiiPreface xvii1 Organised crime – what we know and what wethink we know! 1Professor Barry Rider OBE2 Organised crime and power in the modern world 57Anna Sergi3 Organised crime and society 77William Tupman4 Organized crime, structures and operations 93Peter M. German5 Organised crime and business 113Kenneth Murray6 Research issues that could be addressed to betteridentify and interdict the assets of organisedcriminals in the UK 135Jeffrey Bryant7 Organised crime – offshore and international aspects 155Dominic Thomas-James8 Organised crime – the cyber dimension 179Dionysios Demetis9 The disruption of crime 197Shima D KeeneIndex