Organized Crime and Preventive Justice

The Impossible Mission: Global Justice Movement Against Transnational Organized Crime

This article argues that the best counterattack against globally oriented transnational organized crime (TOC) is by a global response. The contribution of participating states and the creation of a collective identity against TOC are both necessary. This creation would be more effective through transnational social movements. Therefore, activating the global justice movement (GJM) against TOC w...

Possible Criminal Justice Solutions to Organized Crime: Drug Trafficking and Terrorism

Among the different manifestations that constitute the concept of organized crime, drug trafficking and terrorism arouse special interest because of their intense public repercussions. This is so with the phenomenon of drug trafficking for its use of terror indiscriminately as a tactical and strategic mechanism to stake out its supremacy and control, often managing to break the people’s confide...

Organized Crime, Corruption and Punishment∗

JEL Classification: K42, L13, O17.

19. Crime and justice issues

The over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison continues to be a serious problem, more than a decade after the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCADC) were handed down (Baker 2001; Williams 2001). 1 For example, Baker (2001) finds that the over-representation stems initially from the higher rate of appearance at court by Indigenous Australi...

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