Overview
- Collection of essays in honor of Alan A. Block including his now classic study on the origins of IRAN-CONTRA
- Brings together important contributions from Block's students and contemporaries to show the impact of his work on the field of global organized crime
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies of Organized Crime (SOOC, volume 6)
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In his social investigative writings on "the serious crime community" which describes the loose merger of corporate interests, organized crime and political crime, professor Alan A. Block of Penn State University has proven to be one of the most inspiring criminologists in the field. An international group of pupils and friends dedicate this book to him which contains original contributions on the troubled concept of organized crime, the social history of crime groups in the United States, corruption in the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq, the struggle against identity fraud, the world of drugs and the adverse consequences of criminalization, the money-laundering control movement, International Tribunals against war crimes and a Jewish studies chapter on the role of bystanders during the Holocaust.
The book opens with Alan Block's now classic study on the origins of the Iran Contra scandal. Alan A. Block has served for 17 years as the editor-in-chief of Crime, Law and Social Change, one of Springer's major criminology journals.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Frank Bovenkerk is cultural anthropologist and professor of criminology at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. His main fields of research are organized crime, discrimination and crime and ethnicity. His current interest is moving toward the field of cultural criminology.
Michael Levi has been Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University, Wales, UK since 1991, and has been researching organised and white-collar crime issues since 1972. He has degrees from Oxford, Cambridge and Southampton Universities. His books include Drugs and Money (with Petrus van Duyne), 2005; Fraud: Organization, Motivation and Control I and II,1999; Money-Laundering in the UK (with Michael Gold), 1994; The Investigation, Prosecution, and Trial of Serious Fraud, 1993; Regulating Fraud: White-Collar Crime and the Criminal Process, 1987; and The Phantom Capitalists: the Organisation and Control of Long-Firm Fraud, 1981, to be republished by Ashgate in 2006 with a new introduction. He is currently completing White-Collar Crime and its Victims and White-Collar Crime in the Media for Clarendon Press, Oxford, and a variety of research studies on serious and organised crime.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Organized Crime Community
Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Alan A. Block
Editors: Frank Bovenkerk, Michael Levi
Series Title: Studies of Organized Crime
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39020-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-39019-2Published: 15 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2287-8Published: 29 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-39020-8Published: 15 November 2007
Series ISSN: 1571-5493
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 232