Redefining Organised Crime: A Challenge for the European Union?
Redefining Organised Crime: A Challenge for the European Union?

Author: Stefania Carnevale

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-12-28

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 1509904719

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The definition of organised crime has long been the object of lively debate, at national and international level. Sociological and legal analysis has not yet led to one definitive answer to the question of what exactly 'organised crime' means. Nonetheless, many instruments adopted both at international and national levels set forth special legal regimes designed to target criminal groups featuring a stable organisation, which are perceived as particularly dangerous to society. Therefore, identifying the notion of organised crime is crucial to establishing the scope of any legal instrument specifically designed for combating it. The aim of this book is to reassess the scope, the effectiveness and the overall coherence of existing definitions of organised crime, and to identify any need for a reconsideration of these definitions, specifically with reference to the EU legal order. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners and legislators working in the sphere of EU criminal law and of organised crime more generally.

Organised Crime in Europe
Organised Crime in Europe

Author: Cyrille Fijnaut

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-01-21

Total Pages: 1068

ISBN-13: 1402027656

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This volume represents the first attempt to systematically compare organised crime concepts, as well as historical and contemporary patterns and control policies in thirteen European countries. These include seven ‘old’ EU Member States, two ‘new’ members, a candidate country, and three non-EU countries. Based on a standardised research protocol, thirty-three experts from different legal and social disciplines provide insight through detailed country reports. On this basis, the editors compare organised crime patterns and policies in Europe and assess EU initiatives against organised crime.

Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy
Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy

Author: Felia Allum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1134201508

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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 Union.

Measuring Organised Crime in Europe
Measuring Organised Crime in Europe

Author: Tom Vander Beken

Publisher: Maklu

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 9062159397

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Recent years have been characterised by growing awareness among European member states about serious shortcomings to the way organised crime is measured and assessed. Currently, organised crime reports primarily generate descriptive analyses of a past situation based on law enforcement data and do not always provide the necessary information for proactive and preventive policy strategies. Therefore an EU Action Plan has been issued to develop a more future oriented and risk based methodology for the measurement of organised crime and to convert the traditional organised crime situation reports into strategic reports for planning purposes. This book is the outcome of two studies undertaken by a team composed of Belgian, Italian and Swedish researchers for the European Commission. It presents an overview of current practices in the measurement of organised crime in Europe and includes a discussion about the concept and the assessment of the impact of the phenomenon. Further the feasibility of the implementation of the existing EU Action Plan was studied and evaluated. As a result of applied research Measuring Organised Crime in Europe provides an in depth and comparative analysis of current practice in drafting organised crime reports across and by the EU and offers new ideas to improve their quality.

Rethinking Organised Crime
Rethinking Organised Crime

Author: Leslie Holmes

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-05-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 180220623X

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A complex phenomenon which has undergone significant changes in the past forty years, Leslie Holmes argues that organised crime is in need of re-conceptualisation. This innovative book navigates the evolution of this issue to grasp its full scope in the twenty-first century.

Defining and Defying Organised Crime
Defining and Defying Organised Crime

Author: Felia Allum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-02-25

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1135273162

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Organised crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach this book examines the existing, official institutional discourse on organised crime to examine whether, or not, it has an impact on perceptions of the threat and on the reality of organized crime.

Defining and Defying Organized Crime
Defining and Defying Organized Crime

Author: Felia Allum

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0415548527

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Organised crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach this book examines the existing, official institutional discourse on organised crime to examine whether, or not, it has an impact on perceptions of the threat and on the reality of organized crime.

Mind the (Information) Gap
Mind the (Information) Gap

Author: Benjamin J. Goold

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Over the past decade, the European Union (EU) has introduced a number of major initiatives in an effort to respond to the growing problem of transnational organized crime (TOC). Chief among these are the European Security Strategy (ESS), the European Criminal Intelligence Model (ECIM) and the Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA), all of which aim to improve information sharing, streamline intelligence generation and strengthen the degree of cooperation between national law enforcement agencies within the EU.

Organized Crime Legislation in the European Union
Organized Crime Legislation in the European Union

Author: Francesco Calderoni

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-03-19

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 3642043305

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Just a few months after the entry into force of the EU Framework Decision on the fight against organized crime, this book provides an unprecedented analysis of the national and European legislation on organized crime. The book provides a critical examination of the European policies and legal instruments to promote the harmonization and approximation of criminal law in this field (including the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime). The current level of harmonization among EU Member States and the approximation to the standards of the new Framework Decision are discussed in detail, with the help of tables, graphs and maps. The results highlight the problems surrounding the international legal instruments and the inconsistencies of the national approaches to combating organized crime.