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The gig mafia : how small networks and high-speed digital funds transfers have changed the face of organized crime / David M. Shapiro.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Business law and corporate risk management collectionPublisher: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, [(c)2021.]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (186 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781953349859
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification:
  • HV6441
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Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction: revisiting and revising organized crime -- Chapter 2. Welcome to the gig (crime) economy -- Chapter 3. Why smaller/more flexible cell-like nodes and networks? -- Chapter 4. The criminogenic network and role of legitimate financial institutions -- Chapter 5. Overview of the size of the problem -- Chapter 6. Traditional organized crime (e.g., mafia) -- Chapter 7. Historical overview: a few key concepts -- Chapter 8. Japan (id est, Yakuza) -- Chapter 9. Italy (e.g., La Cosa Nostra) -- Chapter 10. United States (e.g., Al Capone, the "five families") -- Chapter 11. Notes on ontology of organized crime -- Chapter 12. Event-based (id est, the study of criminal events and collective action as the basis for conclusions) -- Chapter 13. Epistemology and sources of knowledge -- Chapter 14. Operations and functioning of organized crime groups -- Chapter 15. Transformation of organized crime groups in theory and practice -- Chapter 16. Organized crime and new participants -- Chapter 17. Professions and the new organized crime: control -- Chapter 18. The future of organized crime.
Abstract: Organized crimes (e.g., weapons trafficking, drug distribution, white collar crime) persist globally due primarily to the power of modern information and communication technology (e.g., computer-based networks in the open and dark webs) to facilitate organization and the enhanced liquidity provided by electronic transfers (in effect, e-capital) to distribute criminal proceeds in the same covert and high-speed manner used by the so-called legitimate commercial enterprises. Offshore banking in tax secrecy and tax haven jurisdictions facilitates both the socially accepted process commonly known as tax avoidance, for example, and the notorious practice commonly known as tax evasion: the former is lawful; the latter is illicit. The dirty secret of how transnational organized economic crime persists lies in global finance, especially transactions using the U.S. dollar in safe havens (e.g., the West uses the Cayman Islands; the East uses Cyprus). Regulators, monitors, auditors, and other specialists in conducting transaction review do not readily and timely tell the difference between high valued transfers that involve true sales of licit goods from high valued transfers that involve the laundering of proceeds from human trafficking, drug distribution, arms sales, and so on.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: revisiting and revising organized crime -- Chapter 2. Welcome to the gig (crime) economy -- Chapter 3. Why smaller/more flexible cell-like nodes and networks? -- Chapter 4. The criminogenic network and role of legitimate financial institutions -- Chapter 5. Overview of the size of the problem -- Chapter 6. Traditional organized crime (e.g., mafia) -- Chapter 7. Historical overview: a few key concepts -- Chapter 8. Japan (id est, Yakuza) -- Chapter 9. Italy (e.g., La Cosa Nostra) -- Chapter 10. United States (e.g., Al Capone, the "five families") -- Chapter 11. Notes on ontology of organized crime -- Chapter 12. Event-based (id est, the study of criminal events and collective action as the basis for conclusions) -- Chapter 13. Epistemology and sources of knowledge -- Chapter 14. Operations and functioning of organized crime groups -- Chapter 15. Transformation of organized crime groups in theory and practice -- Chapter 16. Organized crime and new participants -- Chapter 17. Professions and the new organized crime: control -- Chapter 18. The future of organized crime.

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Organized crimes (e.g., weapons trafficking, drug distribution, white collar crime) persist globally due primarily to the power of modern information and communication technology (e.g., computer-based networks in the open and dark webs) to facilitate organization and the enhanced liquidity provided by electronic transfers (in effect, e-capital) to distribute criminal proceeds in the same covert and high-speed manner used by the so-called legitimate commercial enterprises. Offshore banking in tax secrecy and tax haven jurisdictions facilitates both the socially accepted process commonly known as tax avoidance, for example, and the notorious practice commonly known as tax evasion: the former is lawful; the latter is illicit. The dirty secret of how transnational organized economic crime persists lies in global finance, especially transactions using the U.S. dollar in safe havens (e.g., the West uses the Cayman Islands; the East uses Cyprus). Regulators, monitors, auditors, and other specialists in conducting transaction review do not readily and timely tell the difference between high valued transfers that involve true sales of licit goods from high valued transfers that involve the laundering of proceeds from human trafficking, drug distribution, arms sales, and so on.

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