Organized Crime and Corruption Across Borders (eBook, ePUB)

Exploring the Belt and Road Initiative
Redaktion: Lo, T. Wing; Kwok, Sharon; Siegel, Dina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together experts across the Global South and Europe, this book explores China's Belt and Road Initiative, and the crimogenic potential for economic, financial and socio-cultural cooperation across countries, where some are known for weak law enforcement and high levels of corruption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429632235
• Artikelnr.: 57704588

Autorenporträt

T. Wing Lo is Head and Professor of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in criminology from the University of Cambridge (1991). He formerly worked with Chinese triad gangs and was invited to address the UN delegates attending the Palermo Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (2010) and officials of the US Department of Defense (2015). Dina Siegel is Professor of Criminology and Chair of the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University. She has conducted research on transnational organized crime, human smuggling and trafficking, crimes of mobility, Russian mafia and other East European criminal organizations, crime in the diamond industry, and various activities of Asian organized crime in the European Union. Sharon I. Kwok is Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, specializing in the study of triad society and Chinese organized crime. She received a BA, MSc, and PhD in criminology from the University of Hull (2001), London School of Economics (2004), and City University of Hong Kong (2017), respectively.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. One Belt, One Road and the Process of OBORization
Part A: China 1990 to 2018
2. The Post-Tiananmen Decade: Prices Paid for China's Economic Growth
3. Control of Grand Corruption and Triad Crime in China
4. A Hardboiled Belt and Road: Backlash to the UN-Bribes-for-OBOR Scandals
Part B: Transnational Crime along the Belt and Road
5. Transnational Crime in Asia: Illicit Markets and Innovation
6. Crime, Corruption, and Collateral Damage: Large Infrastructure Projects as a Threat to Cultural Heritage
7. Chinese Wildlife Trafficking Networks along the Silk Road
8. Protected Wildlife on the One Belt, One Road: A Case Study of Illegal Tiger Skins Trade
Part C: Organized Crime and Corruption in OBOR Countries
9. Organized Crime in Contemporary Russia
10. Organized Crime in Kazakhstan
11. Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Lithuania
12. Organized Crime in the Czech Republic
13. Organized Crime in Poland and its Control from a Central European Perspective
14. Organized Crime and Corruption in Bangladesh
Conclusion
15. The Possible Outcome of OBORization