Transnational Organized Crime: Myth, Power, and Profit Book

	Acknowledgments
	About the editors
	Authors and editors
	Introduction	3
I	Organized crime : perspectives and approaches
Ch. 1	Criminally exploitable ties : a network approach to organized crime	9
Ch. 2	Medieval thinking and organized crime economy	23
Ch. 3	The evolution of myths surrounding female terrorists in criminology	45
Ch. 4	Organized crime and human trafficking	53
II	Organized crime in the Americas
Ch. 5	The uses of social myth : drug traffickers and terrorism in Peru	73
Ch. 6	Organized crime and criminal law in Colombia	91
Ch. 7	The Mexican cartels and their challenge to popular sovereignty	103
III	Organized crime in Asia
Ch. 8	The Mandalay connection : drugs in Myanmar/Burma	119
Ch. 9	Drugs in Laos	133
IV	Organized crime in Europe
Ch. 10	Crossroads of crime : the Czech Republic case	147
Ch. 11	Purposeful misconceptions : organized crime and the state	157
Ch. 12	Cybercrime and cybersecurity : the post-September 11, 2001, reality	169
	Bibliography	183
	Index	207