ABSTRACT
This chapter explains a wealth of critical studies on transnational organized crime which brings to light semantic shifts that shaped the way in which the expression "transnational organized crime" was imposed on the international stage: from drug trafficking to money laundering and corruption to illegal immigration, via human trafficking and cybercrime. The fluctuating categories used in discourses clearly demonstrate the malleable and problematic nature of the expression "transnational organized crime". By analyzing the prevailing social representations of organized crime in the member countries of the G7 and later the G8 in this way. Moreover, in most studies on the international mobilization against transnational organized crime, the G8 is rarely mentioned as being one of the actors involved in the international struggle against transnational organized crime and those studies that have mentioned it have tended to merely adopt a realist and functionalist approach.
