Organized Crime: A Very Short Introduction

This book uncovers the reality of organized crime, considering what is meant by the term "organized," and discussing the different forms of activities organized crime engages in, from human trafficking to extortion. Offering a global perspective, from the Mafia to the Yakuza, it considers efforts to combat organized crime today.

Georgios A. Antonopoulos is Professor of Criminology at Teesside University. He has been visiting scholar at a number of universities in the UK, Greece, Croatia, and the Netherlands. He is an associate of the Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, editor-in-chief of the journal Trends in Organised Crime, and member of the editorial boards of the journals Global Crime, Journal of Financial Crime, Journal of Money Laundering Control, and the British Journal of Criminology. From 2010 to 2014 he was Chair of the North-east branch of the British Society of Criminology, and in 2014 he served as executive director of the International Association for the Study of Organised Crime (IASOC).

Georgios Papanicolaou is Reader in Criminology at Teesside University UK. He has studied law and penal sciences at the University of Athens, Greece, and Criminology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Georgios has worked at Teesside since 2008. His research interests evolve around the themes of the political economy of policing and the policing of illicit markets, particularly in a transnational context. Georgios is currently Head of the Department of Criminology, Law, and Policing at Teesside University and an elected member of the Executive Board of the Greek Society for the Study of Crime and Social Control.