ABSTRACT
This book explores China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the criminogenic potential for economic, financial, and socio-cultural cooperation across countries, where some are known for weak law enforcement and high levels of corruption. It examines whether these flows of capital are increasing the amount of organized crime in the newly linked regions and how law enforcement agencies are responding.
Bringing together experts across the Global South and Europe, this book considers transnational organized crime and corruption across One Belt One Road (OBOR). It examines crime and corruption in China and its international United Front tactic; analyzes various forms of transnational organized crime such as trafficking of illegal drugs, looted antiquities, and wildlife and counterfeit products; and presents studies on corruption and organized crime in selected OBOR countries including Russia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, and Bangladesh.
This book makes a significant contribution to the development of southern criminology and will also be of interest to those engaged with transnational organized crime, political economy, international relations, and Asian and Chinese studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |14 pages
Introduction
part A|56 pages
China 1990 to 2018
part B|80 pages
Transnational crime along the Belt and Road
chapter Chapter 6|15 pages
Crime, corruption, and collateral damage
chapter Chapter 8|17 pages
Protected wildlife on the One Belt, One Road
part C|106 pages
Organized crime and corruption in OBOR countries
chapter Chapter 13|21 pages
Organized crime in Poland and its control from a Central European perspective
part |16 pages
Conclusion