Description
Illicit and illegal markets play a substantial role in the global economy, yet have received little attention from economic geographers. This incisive, innovative book examines the spatial dimensions of hidden economic practices and asks how organized crime can be understood empirically and conceptually through a geographical lens. Going beyond stereotypes about gangsters, the book explores the role of spatially distant corporate, state, and criminal actors in such activities as trafficking and smuggling of drugs, people, and goods; counterfeiting; cybercrime; corruption; money laundering; financing of terrorist groups; and environmental crime. It suggests ways that a geographical analysis can contribute to improving policies and practices to curb organized crime at the regional, national, and global levels.
Chapter
Chapter 1. Geography and Organized Crime
Definitions and Discourses of Organized Crime
Economic Geography Perspectives
The Political and Social Production of Organized Crime
Prior Geographical Literatures of Organized Crime
Chapter 2. Contemporary Organized Crime
The Economies of Illegal Drugs
Other Commodity Trafficking
Organized Crime and the State
Criminal Organization in a Global Economy
Chapter 3. Measuring and Researching Organized Crime
Official Measures of Organized Crime
Perception and Experience Surveys of Organized Crime
Threat and Risk Assessments
Investigative Journalism Sources
True Crime and Gangster Autobiographies
Social Media and Online Sources
Historical and Ethnographic Accounts of Organized Crime
Policymaking and Knowledges of Organized Crime
Chapter 4. The Organization of Criminal Enterprises
Forms of Criminal Organization
Criminal Organization under Post-Fordism
Regional Differences in the Organization of Criminal Groups
Regulating Criminal Economies
Chapter 5. The Spatialities of Organized Crime
Local Geographical Contexts
Chapter 6. Criminal Mobilities
Networked Criminal Mobilities
Criminal Commodity Movements and Their Spaces
Representations of Illicit Commodity Movements
Chapter 7. Responding to Organized Crime
Extant Responses to Organized Crime
Changing the Policy Environment
Geographical Issues and Policy Responses
Chapter 8. Toward Economic Geographies of Organized Crime
The Economic Geographies of Organized Crime
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