ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE NEW BUSINESS OF TERROR: The cover story for the current issues of U.S. News & World Report reports on how Jidahist groups are using organized crime to finance their attacks globally. In a series of three connected articles in the same issue, reporter David E. Kaplan points to hybrid activities of organized … IASOC MONTHLY REPORT ON ORGANISED CRIME RELATED NEWS
The organising committee invites you to attend the 19th Annual ANZSOC Conference to held in Hobart, Tasmania from the 7 – 9 February 2006 at Wrest Point Convention Centre on located on the picturesque River Derwent. The theme of the conference is ‘Criminology and Human Rights’ with participants invited to submit an abstract for presentation … ANZSOC: 19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 7 – 9 FEBRUARY 2006
Proposed ECPR section: Comparing Organised crime between new and old threats The ECPR will be organising its 4th General Conference in Pisa, Italy in September 2007. The ECPR Standing group would like to be present and organise a section dedicated to organised crime. The standing group has developed extensively since its last conference in Marburg, … FIRST CALL FOR PANEL CHAIRS: DEADLINE 24TH FEBRUARY 2006
We are looking for contributors for the 2-volume, illustrated ORGANIZED CRIME: A INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, VOL.I and II, to be published by ABC-CLIO in 2007. The volume consists of sixteen chapters, broken down into three sections. Section 1 is devoted largely to historical antecedents, causation theories and group dynamics and provides a global overview (by region) … CALL FOR PAPERS: ORGANIZED CRIME: AN INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
Asian Journal of Criminology. An Interdisciplinary Journal on Crime, Law and Deviance in Asia. Editor-in-Chief: R. Broadhurst New journal, to be published in 2006. The Editors now welcome submissions for the Journal’s first Volume The Asian Journal of Criminology aims to advance the study of criminology and criminal justice in Asia, to promote evidence-based public … NEW JOURNAL: ASIAN JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY
Published by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, June 2005 (To obtain an electronic copy of the complete report (PDF), please send a request by e-mail to the Research and Evaluation Section (Community, Contract and Aboriginal Policing Services) of the RCMP research_evaluation@rcmp-grc.gc.ca) From the Executive summary: With significant improvements in modes of transport, communication and ever-expanding horizon … ARTICLE: THE CHANGING STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZED CRIME GROUPS
Crime, Media, Culture is the primary vehicle for exchange between scholars who are working at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry. It promotes a broad crossdisciplinary understanding of the relationship between crime, criminal justice, media and culture. While Crime, Media, Culture embraces submissions across a range of research perspectives and methodological orientations, it encourages … NEW JOURNAL: CRIME, MEDIA, CULTURE
Pardo, Italo(Ed.) Hardcover 187 pages (12/2004) Publisher: Ashgate Language: English ISBN:0 7546 4290 9 Price: 89.95$/45£ Synopsis (provided by the publisher) Drawing on detailed enthnographies, the contributors address illegal forms of corruption and more widely, moral and legal forms of corruption in western and non-western societies. Based on descriptive analyses of corrupt practices at and beyoud the local level, … NEW BOOK: “BETWEEN MORALITY AND THE LAW: CORRUPTION, ANTHROPOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE SOCIETY”
Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli (Eds.) Hardcover 1074 pages (August 2005) Publisher: Springer Language: English ISBN:1402026153 Price: 235,00 € (Until Dec. 1, 2005: 190,00 €) Synopsis (provided by the publisher) At the beginning of the 21st century organised crime has become a ‘hot’ topic in public debate and on political agendas throughout Europe. To control organised crime, far-reaching … NEW BOOK: ‘ORGANISED CRIME IN EUROPE : CONCEPTS, PATTERNS AND CONTROL POLICIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND BEYOND’
James B. Jacobs Softcover 304 pages (January 2006) Publisher: NYU Press Language: English ISBN: 0-8147-4273-4 Price: $32,95 Synopsis (provided by the publisher) Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated labor as effectively as in the United States. From the early 1930s to the assassination of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa in 1975, the federal … NEW BOOK: ‘MOBSTERS, UNIONS AND FEDS. THE MAFIA AND THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT’
