State and local law enforcement response to transnational crime

Abstract

This report, using the results of the survey and new research, identifies some next steps to providing State and local law enforcement with tools to identify and respond to transnational crime .... The second section [excerpted here] is a literature review of the current state of the field in identifying and responding to transnational crime at the State and local level. This section provides a context for the interpretation of the results of this study ....

Criminal entrepreneurship, white‐collar criminality, and neutralization theory

“…Entrepreneurial judgment is ultimately judgment about the control of resources (Small and Taylor, 2006). As an innovator, a leader, a creator, a discoverer and an equilibrator, the entrepreneur exercises judgment in terms of resource acquisition and allocation to prosper from criminal business opportunities.…”

Entrepreneurship in Organised Crime

“…Zambada-Garcia indirectly had help from the police because the police in Mazatlan shot and killed Ramon Arellano Felix, his most powerful rival, in 2002. Felix's Tijuana cartel was weakened, while Zambada-Garcia's Sinaloa cartel was strengthened (Small and Taylor, 2006). Competitive imperfections were created by Zambada-Garcia's purposeful actions.…”

Information Sources in Police Intelligence

“…Competitive forces can be influenced by law enforcement actions. For example, after police shot and killed Ramon Arellano Felix, who headed the Tijuana cartel in Mexico in 2002, the position of Ismael Zambada-Garcia's Sinaloa cartel was strengthened by increasing market share in the drug trade (Small & Taylor, 2006).…”