Transnational organized crime and tourism: a Caribbean perspective
Globalization has facilitated the easy movement of goods and services from one location to another. Globalization has also narrowed the world and the result is that open trade and travel borders have enabled transnational organized crime groups and their activities to penetrate disparate parts of th...
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| Medienart: | Druck Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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The Palgrave handbook of Caribbean criminology
Jahr: 2024, Seiten: 153-170 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Globalization has facilitated the easy movement of goods and services from one location to another. Globalization has also narrowed the world and the result is that open trade and travel borders have enabled transnational organized crime groups and their activities to penetrate disparate parts of the world. With this spread of transnational organized crime groups, it is argued that no locale and/or business industry is safe from the reaches of these insidious groups and this includes the tourism industry in the Caribbean. Despite the exponential increase of transnational organized crime groups and their involvement in the tourism industry, the nexus between transnational organized crime groups and the tourism industry is rarely analyzed systematically, especially in Caribbean contexts. This chapter begins to fill this gap by examining how transnational organized crime groups and individuals linked to them can take advantage of tourist destinations to commit crimes and facilitate their profit-making motives. The authors of this chapter posed the following questions: (1) what potentials exist for transnational organized crime groups in the tourism industry in the Caribbean and, (2) what vulnerabilities of the tourism industry are transnational organized crime groups attracted to? The current research took the form of a six-month desk review of available literature, supplemented by consultations with tourism officials and academicians in the Caribbean who are versed in the activities of transnational organized crime groups. Importantly, the chapter did not set out to tarnish the tourism industry; rather, the authors sought to determine the propensity for criminal activities of transnational organized crime groups, what attracts them to the region, their criminal acts, and detriments to law-abiding citizens and the tourism industry in the Caribbean. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 166-170 |
| ISBN: | 9783031523779 |
