ABSTRACT

This volume offers a diverse set of perspectives on transnational crime. Providing a wide-ranging overview of the legal and policy issues that arise in connection with various forms of transnational crime, the authors outline the criminal justice responses adopted across different jurisdictions. Including contributions from high profile Chinese and European academics and practitioners across a variety of disciplines and methodological backgrounds, the authors address some of the hitherto underexplored issues related to transnational crime. These range from trafficking in cultural objects derived from illicit metal-detecting and metal-detecting tourism in China to the European approaches to criminalising the denial of historical truth. The central theme of the book is that useful lessons can be drawn from each other’s experiences, and that a cross-fertilisation of domestic approaches to transnational crime is essential to effective cooperation.

This book will be of use to students and academics of comparative criminal justice and anyone interested in transnational crime.

chapter 2|22 pages

The global governance of transnational crime

Implications for justice and the rule of law

part I|2 pages

Money laundering, terrorist financing and cybercrime

part II|2 pages

Art crime and historical memory

chapter 7|24 pages

‘Paint it black’

‘Simple’ and increasingly ‘professional’ looting of antiquities with metal-detectors in East Asia

chapter 8|14 pages

From canvas to ashes

Understanding the implications of the Westfries Museum and Kunsthal thefts for the Dutch art world

part III|2 pages

Comparative perspectives on corruption and financial crime

chapter 10|16 pages

Relocating bribery

Facilitation payments as a crime against the market?

part IV|2 pages

Environmental crime