Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering, and Corruption

Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi MARGARET E. BEARE 1 Transnational Organized Crime: The Strange Career of an American Concept 3(32) MICHAEL WOODIWISS 2 Predators, Parasites, or Free-Market Pioneers: Reflections on the Nature and Analysis of Profit-Driven Crime 35(20) R.T. NAYLOR 3 From National to Global, from Empirical to Legal: The Ambivalent Concept of Transnational Organized Crime 55(33) VALSAMIS MITSILEGAS 4 The Business of Bribery: Globalization, Economic Liberalization, and the 'Problem' of Corruption 88(32) JAMES W. WILLIAMS AND MARGARET E. BEARE 5 Against Transnational Organized Crime 120(25) JAMES SHEPTYCKI 6 Discourse, Identity, and the U.S. 'War on Drugs' 145(26) KYLE GRAYSON 7 Global Markets and Crime 171(12) VINCENZO RUGGIERO 8 Organized Corporate Criminality: Corporate Complicity in Tobacco Smuggling 183(24) MARGARET E. BEARE 9 The War on Drugs and the Military: The Case of Colombia 207(30) JUAN G. RONDEROS 10 Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Canada: A Study of High-Level Drug Networks 237(19) FREDERICK J. DESROCHES 11 Follow-the-Money Methods in Crime Control Policy 256(35) R.T. NAYLOR Bibliography 291(36) Contributors 327(4) Index 331