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Organized crime --- Transnational crime --- Prevention. --- Multinational crime --- Transborder crime --- Crime --- Organized crime prevention --- Prevention of organized crime --- Crime prevention

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Entering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market economy. The core of his work is competition among so-called violence-managing agencies-criminal groups, private security services, private protection companies, and informal protective agencies associated with the state-which multiplied with the liberal reforms of the early 1990s. This competition provides an unusual window on the dynamics of state formation. Violent Entrepreneurs is remarkable for its research. Volkov conducted numerous interviews with members of criminal groups, heads of protection companies, law enforcement employees, and businesspeople. He bases his findings on journalistic and anecdotal evidence as well as on his own personal observation. Volkov investigates the making of violence-prone groups in sports clubs (particularly martial arts clubs), associations for veterans of the Soviet-Afghan war, ethnic gangs, and regionally based social groups, and he traces the changes in their activities across the decade. Some groups wore state uniforms and others did not, but all of their members spoke and acted essentially the same and were engaged in the same activities: intimidation, protection, information gathering, dispute management, contract enforcement, and taxation. Each group controlled the same resource-organized violence.

Organized crime --- Capitalism --- Law enforcement --- Russia (Federation) --- Social conditions --- Politics and government

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Criminal Capital is an engaging but authoritative account of how financial structures and products can and are being used to evade proper scrutiny and enable criminal activity and what can be done about it. Based on the analysis of the financial methods that are frequently used by criminals, it deals with the widespread abuse of financial systems.

Organized crime. --- Business enterprises—Finance. --- Finance. --- Risk management. --- Criminal law. --- Criminology. --- Organized Crime. --- Business Finance. --- Finance, general. --- Risk Management. --- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law. --- Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.

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Transnational crime --- Organized crime --- Money laundering --- Crime syndicates --- Organised crime --- Crime --- Multinational crime --- Transborder crime --- Laundering of money --- Money washing --- Washing of money --- Commercial crimes

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This report assesses the magnitude, flows and drivers of illicit trade and the illegal economy including: narcotics, human trafficking, wildlife, sports betting, counterfeit medicines, alcohol and tobacco. The negative socio-economic impacts that these markets have in consumer countries are as worrisome as the goverance gaps that are exploited in source countries. This report examines each illicit sector in terms of the geographic sources, destinations and key trade routes, the current trend of infiltration by organized crime networks, and good practices or future policy solutions with which to combat illicit trade within the various sectors.

Organized crime. --- International trade. --- Globalization. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- External trade --- Foreign commerce --- Foreign trade --- Global commerce --- Global trade --- Trade, International --- World trade --- Crime syndicates --- Organised crime --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Commerce --- International economic relations --- Non-traded goods --- Crime