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Transnational
Crime
and Sovereignty
Professor Nikos Passas
Thursday, January 16
4:00pm, Tisch Library, Room 304
Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Law of Northeastern University
Specialist, study of white-collar crime, organized crime and international crime
Studies include transnational crime and the informal transfer of money, cross-border crimes and frauds committed in the context of the European Union (esp. in connection with agricultural subsidies), bank-related offenses and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal, political and commercial corruption at the national and international level, and crime and deviance within and by new religious movements
Consultant to United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention, the Commission of the European Union, the German Parliament, and a number of governments.
Author, Informal Value Transfer Systems and Criminal Organizations: A Study into So-called Underground Banking Networks; editor, International Crimes, It's Legal but It Ain't Right: Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries (derived from an EPIIC professional workshop in 1999), The Future of Anomie Theory (1997), Transnational Crime (1999), and Organized Crime (1995)
Sponsored by EPIIC and the Institute for Global Leadership
as part of EPIIC's 2003 "Sovereignty and Intervention" programming
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