Russian Organized Corruption Networks and their International Trajectories

Preface
List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Chapter I. Introduction

Definitions of Organized Crime (OC), Russian Organized Crime, and Organized Corruption Network (OCN). Organization of the Book

Chapter II. Roots of Russian Organized Crime

2.1 Development of Criminal Professionals 16th 19th Century
2.2 Soviet Period: the vory v zakone in 1920s-1990s
2.3 Gorbachev s Economic and Social Reforms
2.4 The End of 90 s - 2008 (OC-OCN) (2 Figures of OC)
2.5 Transformation and Adaptation

Chapter III. Organized Crime, Businesses, and Local Bureaucracy

3.1 Features of the Russian Organized Crime
3.2 Social and Legal Causes of the Economy Criminalization
3.3 Regional Organized Crime Groups (Profiles; 2 Figures)
3.4 Turf Wars

Chapter IV. Corruption in the Government: the Origins and Tendency

4.1 The Soviet Roots of Corruption: Social and Historic Phenomenon
4.2 Transitional Period: Stages, Tendency, and Development
4.3 Factors Promoting Corruption (Anticorruption legislation)
4.4 Corruption and Public service

Chapter V. Organized Corruption Networks

5.1 Corruption and Organized Crime Diffusion into the System of Civil Service
5.2 Types, Forms and Methods of the OCN Control Over Territories, Enterprises, and the Economy (OCN Definition, Distinction from Criminal Network, Structure, Figures)
5.3 Cases of Corruption

Chapter VI. Ways to Fight OCN: Law Enforcement Services

6.1 Structure and Legislation
6. 2 Criminal Code and Law Enforcements in Combating OCN

Chapter VII. The International Reach

7.1 Comparative Dimensions of Russian Organized Corruption Networks
7.2 Implications for the Future

Bibliography
Index

Serguei Cheloukhine is an Assistant Professor in the department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.



M.R. Haberfeld is a Professor of Police Science in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She was born in Poland and immigrated to Israel as a teenager. Prior to coming to John Jay, she served in Israeli Defense Forces, in a counter-terrorist unit and left the army at the rank of a Sergeant; she then joined the Israel National Police, and left the force at the rank of Lieutenant. She also worked for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in the New York Field Office, as a special consultant. She holds two Bachelor of Art degrees, two Master degrees, and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice. Her main interests and expertise are in the area of police training and professional development, with particular emphasis on: police ethics, integrity, leadership, counter-terrorism and use of force in multicultural environments. Her recent publications include a book on police training, titled Critical Issues in Police Training (2002), a co-edited book titled Contours of Police Integrity (2004) Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, the International Volume (2005) Police Leadership (2005), a co-authored book titled Enhancing Police Integrity (2006) and a co-edited book on Comparative Policing: The Struggle for Democratization (2007). She is currently completing a co-edited book, A New Understanding of Terrorism: Case Studies and Analysis (forthcoming fall, 2008). She also recently co-authored two articles on counter-terrorist response: "Proper Proactive Training to Terrorist Presence and Operations in Friendly Urban Environments", in Understanding and Responding to the Terrorism Phenomenon - A Multi-Dimensional Perspective (2007) and "Police Activities to Counter