This unique text explores the expansive topic of transnational organized crime incorporating expert perspectives found throughout the world's six inhabited continents: North America Central and South America Europe Africa Asia and Oceania. Editors Jay S. Albanese and Philip L. Reichel gather the knowledge and expertise of numerous authors researchers and practitioners in this field who are either native to each world region have extensively travelled and worked there or are recognized scholars for those regions. Through this text readers will begin to understand the geographic cultural and regional similarities and differences underying the common threat of transnational organized crime as well as how to address the global expansion of organized crime today. Language: English