Organised crime and the law
Subtitle: a comparative analysis
By: Liz Campbell
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781849461221
Subjects: Organized crime; Criminal law; Prevention
Other titles: Organized crime and the law
Description: The book examines how laws and policies adopted to address organised crime in the UK and Ireland have been recalibrated, in terms of the prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of organised criminality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Organised crime : defining, measuring and criminalising the problem; title: The theoretical framework : tensions in criminal justice; title: Investigating organised crime : altering the pre-trial process; title: Prosecuting organised crime : the criminal trial; title: Punishing organised crime : the post-conviction stage of the criminal process; title: Beyond the criminal realm : civil asset recovery; title: Revenue matters : taxing organised crime; title: Conclusion.