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1. Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime

   Edited by Felia Allum, Stan Gilmour

   Transnational organized crime crosses borders, challenges States, exploits individuals, pursues profit, wrecks economies, destroys civil society, and ultimately weakens global democracy. It is a phenomenon that is all too often misunderstood and misrepresented. This handbook attempts to redress the...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
2. Defining and Defying Organised Crime

   Discourse, Perceptions and Reality

   Edited by Felia Allum, Francesca Longo, Daniela Irrera, Panos Kostakos

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Organized crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach this book examines the nature of this threat. By analysing the existing, official institutional discourse on organized crime it examines whether or not it has...

   Published February 16th 2010 by Routledge
3. Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy

   Edited by Felia Allum, Renate Siebert

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from the United States, Japan, Russia, South America, France, Italy and the European...

   Published January 9th 2008 by Routledge