Terrorism

Commentary on Security Documents Volume 115: Gangs, Terrorism, and International Disorder
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-975823-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1028 g

Volume 115 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Gangs, Terrorism, and International Disorder discusses the growing impact criminal groups have had on national and international security systems. As the nexus between gangs and terrorist groups becomes stronger, this volume will help analysts and governments better defend against their threats.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lovelace, Douglas

Boon, Kristen

Huq, Aziz

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PREFACE

- INTRODUCTION

- THE GANG PHENOMENON

- Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.

- DOCUMENT NO. 1: History of Street Gangs in the United States, James C. Howell and John P. Moore, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice Washington, D.C., May 2010

- DOCUMENT NO. 2: Street Gangs: the New Urban Insurgency, Max G. Manwaring, Carlisle Barracks, PA, March 2005

- DOCUMENT NO. 3: National Gang Threat Assessment 2009, National Gang Intelligence Center and the National Drug Intelligence Center, Washington, D.C., January 2009

- DOCUMENT NO. 4: Property Abatements: the other Gang Injunction, Project T.O.U.G.H, Jonathan Cristall, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Department of Justice Washington, D.C., September 2009

- GANGS AND INTERNATIONAL DISORDER

- Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.

- DOCUMENT NO. 5: A Contemporary Challenge to State Sovereignty: Gangs and other Illicit Transnational Criminal Organizations in Central America, El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica, and Brazil, Max G. Manwaring, Carlisle Barracks, PA, December 2007

- DOCUMENT NO. 6: State and Nonstate Associated Gangs: Credible "Midwives of New Social Orders, Max G. Manwaring, Carlisle Barracks, PA, May 2009

- DOCUMENT NO. 7: International Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Security Threats, U.S. Policy, and Considerations for Congress, John Rollins and Liana Sun Ayler, Congressional Research Service, Washington, D.C., March 18, 2010

- THE MEXICAN ZETAS AND SOUTHWEST BORDER ISSUES

- Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.

- DOCUMENT NO. 8: A "New" Dynamic in the Western Hemisphere Security Environment: the Mexican Zetas and other Private Armies, Max G. Manwaring, Carlisle Barracks, PA, September 2009

- DOCUMENT NO. 9: Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence, Jennifer E. Lake, et al., Congressional Research Service, Washington, D.C., February 16, 2010

- ORGANIZED CRIME IN IRAQ

- Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.

- DOCUMENT NO. 10: Criminals, Militias, and Insurgents: Organized Crime in Iraq, Phil Williams, Carlisle Barracks, PA, June 2009

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas Lovelace is the Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College. Earlier in his military career, he worked on national security directives. He holds an MBA degree from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a JD from Widener School of Law.

Kristen E. Boon is Director of International Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law. Her writings have appeared in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the New York University Journal of International Law. A former clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada's Justice Ian Binnie, she holds an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Aziz Huq teaches at the University of Chicago Law School and was recently Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at NYU Law School's Brennan Center. He previously clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and served as Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group.