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January 2003

eNewsletter OC

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Word of Welcome News and Events Announcements
Sayaka Fukumi & Francesco Marelli

The year 2003 has started with the dark news of a possible military attack on Iraq by the US and its allies because of its failure to meet the UN’s resolution to destroy its weapons of mass destruction.

 

The world at the moment appears divided and the tension between the United States/Britain and the other countries (such as France and Germany) that oppose a military attack is rising. Although international politics is full of uncertainty, the future of our Standing Group on Organised Crime seems a little bit more cheerful and hopeful: this is the first anniversary of our eNewsletter and we are delighted to present to you our fourth eNewsletter which is a special issue dedicated to ‘organised crime in America’.<read>

Recruitment
The group is keen to increase membership and would ask members to help in this recruitment process, in particular, by suggesting possible new members. Members do not have to be from an ECPR institution. We are interested in expanding our network to recruit academics and practitioners so that we can have an exchange of ideas and develop projects together. Please suggest names if you can.

Important!!

Change of eNewsletter URL

From our next issue in May, eNewsletter will move to a new server.  Thus, the web address of the standing gourp's eNewsletter will change. Please change your bookmarks. <read>

New Look on SGOC Homepage

The format of the website of the SGOG has been changed in order to make it more helpful and effective for everyone. But, we would like to continue improving it. For this, we need the help and input of our members. We would ask members to use the website and provide material whenever possible.<read>

Marburg Conference

The standing group is ogranising a section at the ECPR's General Conference in Marburg, Germany in September 2003 on 'Organised Crime, Politics and Civil Society'. This will provide the group with a great opportunity to meet, have a solid exchange of ideas and make future plans. Please note the on-line registration has begun on 15 January 2003 Other imporant dates are:
1 March 2003: Call for paper closes
1 April 2003: Full programme published, including names of presenters, paper titles and discussants
1 June 2003: Deadline for early registration

European Parliament Public Hearing

Herewith, we invite you to attend the public hearing on Europe’s role in international drug policy reform, that will take place on 4 March 2003 in the European Parliament, Brussels. We equally invite you to take part in a public event on 3 March in the centre of Brussels, as well as a meeting for European drug policy activists on 5 March, in Antwerpen.
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Calls for Papers

VI Annual Conference on Divided Societies: Conflict and Security
11th Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution
Understanding Terrorism: Philosophical Issues
Trafficking in Persons
ECPR General Conference: Organised Crime, Politics and Civil Society Section
ECPR Joint Sessions

Calls for Contributions

We are looking for:
Book reviews: 
500-900 words, original books in language of your choice but reviews should be written in English. Indicate the language of the book.  <send>
Conference reports: 
about 1000 words max.  in English. Share your experience at conferences with those who are unable to attend them. <send>
Essays concerned:
Policies of the US, the EU, and the UN
Criminal Organisation and Terrorism

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Organised Crime in America

The editors are not responsible for the views expressed by the authors.  

North America

Latin America & the Caribbean

Global governance, shadow states and the environment [PDF 30K]

Rosaleen Duffy   

The Prospects for Improving Cargo Container Security [PDF 74K]
The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Commandant or the Coast Guard

Joseph E. Vorbach III   

 The Mafia in America:Traditional Organized Crime in Transition   (2000) on Search International

Richard C. Lindberg   

America's Habit

President's Commission on Organized Crime (1986)   

 Drug related documents including 'America's Habit' can be found at Drug Library

 US and Multirateral Coalition Disrupt Migrants Smuggling Opeartions   (2000) 

Joseph R. Greene, US Department of State   

Trafficking in Misery: Human Migrant Smaggling and Organized Crime [PDF]  Gazette Vol.63, No.3 2001

Lenore Richards  

 Mahjor Issue Relating to Organized Crime: within the Context of Economic Relationships   (12 April 1999)

Margaret E. Beare and R. T. Naylor, Law Commission of Canada   

Human Trafficking Policies: Ships Passing in the Night  Foreign Policy in Focus August 2001

David Kyle  
Bosses, brokers and helpers: Labour and business relations amongst Colombian cocaine traffickers [PDF 103K]

Damián Zaitch   

The Impact of the Andean Cocaine Trafficking: The Cases of Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico [PDF 250K]

Sayaka Fukumi  

Discussing Money Laundering in Central and South America in a World Context  Transcrime Working Paper No.21 March 1999

Ernesto U. Savona  

A Look Inside A Giant Drug Cartel   The Christian Science Monitor (6 December 1999)

Howard LaFranchi   

Globalization and Transnational Organized Crime: The Russian Mafia in Latin America and Caribbean  Mama Coca 31 October 2001

Bruce M. Bagley  

Status of Human Trafficking in Latin America [MS Word]  2001

Particia Phibes  Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC)

Crime, Violence and Democracy in Latin America  Paper presented at Integration of the Americas Conference 5 April 2002

Paulo de Mesquita Neto   

Transparency and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF] (May 2000)
This paper was prepared for the Conference on Transparency and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

David R. Beall   

Related Information

OSCE Response to Human Trafficking  [MS Word]

on TraCCC site   

Annual Report on Organized Crime in Canada 2002

 To view previous reports, click here

US Congressional Statement

FBI (13 December 2000)   

US Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 42: International Organized Crime
Forum on Crime and Society Vol.1 No.2 December 2001 [PDF]

UNODCCP   

US Trafficking in Persons Report 2002 [PDF 614K]
 HTML format of the report and other related documents can be viewed here
Communique of Hight Level Metting on Drugs and Crime [PDF]
Trinidad and Tobago (4-6 December 2001) UNCCM

Articles

Colombia Says Top Drug Lords Offer to Surrender

Washington Post (Monday, 13 January 2003)   

America's Mafia Monsters

Higher Education & Research Opportunity in the UK (HERO)   

Global Crime Report 'Human Trafficking: Destination'

BBC World Service   

Global Crime Report 'Miami Drugs Crackdown'

BBC World Service   

Global Crime Report 'El Salvador: The Weapons of War'

BBC World Service   

4 Found Dead Near US-Mexico Border

Muzi News (4 July 2001)   

Sex Slavery Racket A Growing Concern in Latin America

Timothy Pratt, The Christian Science Monitor (11 January 2001)   

Criminal Force

Latin America Press (2 January 2003)   

Web Sites

 The American Mafia
 BostonMafia.com
 Frontline: Drug Wars
 Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC)
 Drugstory.org
 Gangsters, outlaws and Gmen (Crime Library)
 FBI Press Room
 Organized Crime
 Anti-Slavery
 US Embassy in Mexico
 Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
 Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)
 Rick Pprrello's AmericanMafia.com
 UN Caribbean Drug Control Coordination Mechanism(CCM)
 Latin America and Caribbean in Focus
 This is a wonderful site for collective articles on Latin America and Caribbean by Foreign Policy in Focus
 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
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Book Reviews

Recent Articles

New Books

Trafficking Cocaine: Colombian Drug Entrepreneurs in the Netherlands
Che cos’č la mafia

Book from SGOC
The product of the group’s initial discussion from the ECPR Joint Sessions in Grenoble, France 2001, will be published as ‘Organised crime and the Challenge to Democracy’ (Allum and Siebert, eds) by Routledge in June 2003. We hope to publish the papers from Marburg too and develop similar projects.
2002
2001
2000
1999
Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
Hei Jin: Organized Crime, Business, and Politics in Taiwan
Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering, and Corruption
Menace to Society: Political-Criminal Collaboration Around the World
Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily 2nd edition
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld Expanded edition
Human Trafficking
Blood Brothers: Crime, Business, and Politics in Asia

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