Full Description
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.
Contents
The Origins of IRAN-CONTRA: Lessons from the Durrani Affair.- California Dreams and Gangster Schemes: The Standley Commission, the Guarantee Finance Company, and the Social System of Organized Crime in post-World War II Southern California.- New Times, New Crimes: "Blocking" Financial Identity Fraud.- The United Nations Oil-for-Food Program: Corruption, Bribery and International Relations in the Serious Crime Community.- Bystander Memories Explored: Dutch Gentile Eyewitness Narratives on the Deportation of the Jews.- Mid East Meets Mid West? Theopolitics, Crime and Terror in the U.S..- Assessing Organised Crime: The Sad State of an Impossible Art.- The Rise of Two Drug Tigers: The Development of the Illegal Drugs Industry and Drug Policy Failure in Afghanistan and Colombia.- Half-baked Legalization Won't Work.- Pecunia Non Olet? The Control of Money-laundering Revisited.- Any Man's Death.... Some Reflections on the Significance of International Criminal Justice.- Vita.
