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With a recent upsurge in the scope, sophistication and co-operation among groups, this book is an essential tool for understanding one of the greatest challenges to security, peace and democracy in the Americas. Exposing the main characteristics and effects of criminal enterprises in the Americas ...

With a recent upsurge in the scope, sophistication and co-operation among groups, this book is an essential tool for understanding one of the greatest challenges to security, peace and democracy in the Americas. Exposing the main characteristics and effects of criminal enterprises in the Americas, this book then considers realistic strategies for combating them.

Before Enron, before Arthur Anderson, and before Worldcom, there was the Bank of New York money laundering scandal, which hit headlines in 1999. Promising to be one of the most important books on international organized crime, money laundering, and the complicity between legitimate and illegitimate ...

Before Enron, before Arthur Anderson, and before Worldcom, there was the Bank of New York money laundering scandal, which hit headlines in 1999. Promising to be one of the most important books on international organized crime, money laundering, and the complicity between legitimate and illegitimate businesses in both the United States and the former Soviet Union, among other places, during the last decade of the 20th century, All Is Clouded by Desire examines the criminal dealings that led to the revelation that the Bank of New York's Eastern European Division laundered $6 billion for Russian organized criminals and other shady organizations and individuals. In a series of intrigues that involved crooked Geneva banker Bruce Rappaport and high-level members of the Bank of New York, criminal Russian organizations were able to thrive and prosper during a time when the rest of the former Soviet Union crumbled amidst growing corruption and a declining economy. Tracing the financial shenanigans back many years, Block and Weaver illustrate how the underworld of high finance, money laundering, mafia groups, CIA operatives, and legitimate banking institutions can clean dirty money and operate criminal enterprises that span the globe.

This book completes Lord Windlesham's trilogy of works examining the contemporary history of criminal justice and lawmaking in the United Kingdom and the United States. Like the first two volumes, Volume Three offers a unique account of the development of the government's criminal justice ...

This book completes Lord Windlesham's trilogy of works examining the contemporary history of criminal justice and lawmaking in the United Kingdom and the United States. Like the first two volumes, Volume Three offers a unique account of the development of the government's criminal justice legislation and the processes of policy formation, drafting and parliamentary scrutiny. His assessment of the media is of special interest, as is the examination of the influence of party "grass-roots" on the voting patterns of politicians. A comparison with the corresponding processes and political influences in the United States provides a new, highly relevant and sobering comparison. It is, however, the author's cool examination of the evidence and his trenchant expression of his own judgements which gives this contemporary history particular value for today and for generations to come.

Typically, other reference works on organized crime in the United States focus primarily on the Mafia and La Cosa Nostra, and neglect the many new ethnic and racial criminal organizations that permeate American society today. This reference fills those gaps while providing systematic detailed ...

Typically, other reference works on organized crime in the United States focus primarily on the Mafia and La Cosa Nostra, and neglect the many new ethnic and racial criminal organizations that permeate American society today. This reference fills those gaps while providing systematic detailed coverage of traditional crime families, individuals, significant events, and terms. More than 250 entries provide in-depth information on major underworld figures, from Al Capone to John Gotti and Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, and key criminal events and milestones. In addition, Kelly, an expert on organized crime, provides in-depth coverage of African American organized crime, Chinese Triads and Tongs, the Colombian drug cartels' infiltration of the U.S., Dominican drug trafficking, ecocrime, Russian organized crime, Latin gangs and criminal groups, and Vietnamese American organized crime.