Table Of ContentHistories of Transnational Crime
Gerben Bruinsma
Editor
Histories of Transnational
Crime
Editor
Gerben Bruinsma
Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime
and Law Enforcement (NSCR)
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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Contents
1 Criminology and Transnational Crime .................................................... 1
Gerben Bruinsma
2 Historical Piracy and its Impact ............................................................... 9
Bruce Elleman
3 History of Slavery, Human Smuggling
and Trafficking 1860–2010 ........................................................................ 41
Marlou Schrover
4 T he Arms Traffic in World History .......................................................... 71
Jonathan Grant
5 T he Criminalization of Drugs. Drugs Before
they Were Criminalized ............................................................................. 91
Carl Trocki
6 A History of Transnational Trafficking in Stolen
and Looted Art and Antiquities ................................................................ 103
Noah Charney
7 Corporations and Transnational Crime .................................................. 147
Wim Huisman, Annika van Baar and Madelijne Gorsira
8 Criminal Organization and Transnational Crime .................................. 171
Edward R. Kleemans
Index .................................................................................................................. 187
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About the Editor
Gerben Bruinsma has been director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of
Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in Amsterdam, a national research institute of
the National Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) from 1999 till 2014 and,
currently senior researcher of the institute. He is also professor of environmental
criminology at VU University of Amsterdam (from 2009). In the past he held posi-
tions as professor of criminology at Twente University and Leiden University.
He studied sociology and criminology at Utrecht University and finished his
doctoral dissertation ‘Crime as a social process. A test of the differential association
theory in the version of K-D. Opp’ at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In
the 90s he was co-founder and director of the International Police Institute at
Twente University. He initiated and developed a bachelor and master program in
criminology at Leiden University in 2002. He is former president of the Dutch
Society of Criminology and one of the founding fathers of the European Society
of Criminology, editor of various journals and had a great number of advisory and
board positions in the field. From September 2014 till 2015 he serves as President of
the European Society of Criminology. Bruinsma has been a visiting professor of the
universities of Cambridge (2006) and Maryland (2014). In 2009 he received the Freda
Adler Distinguished International Scholar Award of the Division of International
Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. He researched and published
on juvenile delinquency, organized crime, police, crime places, criminological
theory and methodological issues. He published last year in Criminology, Crime
& Delinquency, British Journal of Criminology, Policing, and European Journal of
Criminology. With David Weisburd he edited the Encyclopedia of Criminology and
Criminal Justice (10 volumes, 5,620 pages), New York: Springer, 2014. His current
interests are environmental, theoretical and historical criminology.
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About the Authors
Annika van Baar After a BSc in Psychology and a BSc in criminology at the
VU University Amsterdam, Annika van Baar graduated as an MA in Holocaust
and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam and an MSc in International
Crimes and Criminology the VU university. Currently, Annika van Baar is working
as a Phd-candidate on a research project on the involvement of corporations in
international crimes. By conducting historical and contemporary case-studies, she
is studying the various forms and causes of corporate involvement in genocide,
crimes against humanity and war crimes, and other gross human rights violations.
Gerben Bruinsma has been director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of
Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in Amsterdam, a national research institute of
the National Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) from 1999 till 2014 and,
currently senior researcher of the institute. He is also professor of environmental
criminology at VU University of Amsterdam (from 2009). In the past he held
positions as professor of criminology at Twente University and Leiden University.
He studied sociology and criminology at Utrecht University and finished his doctoral
dissertation ‘Crime as a social process. A test of the differential association theory
in the version of K-D. Opp’ at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In the 90s he was
co-founder and director of the International Police Institute at Twente University.
He initiated and developed a bachelor and master program in criminology
at Leiden University in 2002. He is former president of the Dutch Society of
Criminology and one of the founding fathers of the European Society of Criminology,
editor of various journals and had a great number of advisory and board positions
in the field. From September 2014 till 2015 he serves as President of the European
Society of Criminology. Bruinsma has been a visiting professor of the universities
of Cambridge (2006) and Maryland (2014). In 2009 he received the Freda Adler
Distinguished International Scholar Award of the Division of International
Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. He researched and published
on juvenile delinquency, organized crime, police, crime places, criminological
theory and methodological issues. He published last year in Criminology, Crime
& Delinquency, British Journal of Criminology, Policing, and European Journal of
Criminology. With David Weisburd he edited the Encyclopedia of Criminology and
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x About the Authors
Criminal Justice (10 volumes, 5,620 pages), New York: Springer, 2014. His current
interests are environmental, theoretical, and historical criminology.
Dr. Noah Charney holds advanced degrees in art history from The Courtauld
Institute, Cambridge University, and University of Ljubljana. He is the founder of
ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a research group on
issues in art crime (www.artcrimeresearch.org). His work in the field of art crime
has been praised in such forums as The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine,
Vanity Fair, BBC Radio, and National Public Radio, among others. Charney is the
author of numerous articles, including regular columns for ArtInfo (named by the
Italian magazine Panorama as among the most interesting art columns in the world),
The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Esquire, The Art Newspaper and Tendencias del
Mercado del Arte, and he won an award for a feature in Connecticut Magazine.
He is author of the internationally best-selling novel, The Art Thief (Atria 2007),
currently translated into sixteen languages, as well as Stealing the Mystic Lamb:
the True History of the World’s Most Frequently Stolen Masterpiece, published by
PublicAffairs in 2010, and a best-seller in two countries. He is the editor of Art &
Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World (Praeger 2009), and the author of
a series of art history guides to Spanish museums entitled Museum Time, published
in Spanish and English (Planeta 2010). He published The Thefts of the Mona Lisa:
On Stealing the World’s Most Famous Painting (ARCA Press 2011), all profits
of which support art crime research, at The Wine Forger’s Handbook (Barolista
Books 2012). His next three books will be published in 2015: a history of forgery
(Phaidon), a book on Giorgio Vasari, co-written with Ingrid Rowland (Norton), and
an edited volume on art crime (Palgrave). He lives in Slovenia, and is currently
Adjunct Professor of Art History at the American University of Rome and at Brown
University. He is also a jury member for the newly-established Cultural Heritage
Rescue Prize.
Bruce A. Elleman is William V. Pratt Professor of International History in the
Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, with a M.Sc. in
International History from LSE (1985) and a Ph.D. in History from Columbia
University (1993). His specialization includes Chinese, Japanese, and Russian
history, East Asian international relations, Sino-Soviet diplomatic history, and
Chinese military history. He is the author of Diplomacy and Deception: The
Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917–1927 (1997); Modern
Chinese Warfare, 1795–1989 (2001, translated into Chinese); Wilson and China:
A Revised History of the Shandong Question (2002); Japanese American Civilian
Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941–1945 (2006); and Moscow and
the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925–1930: The Nanchang Uprising
and the Birth of the Red Army (2009), plus co-editor, with Stephen Kotkin and
Clive Schofield, of Beijing’s Power and China’s Border: Twenty Neighbors in Asia
(2013).
Madelijne Gorsira studied psychology at the University of Groningen and received
her master’s degree in Clinical Psychology. She has been as a researcher in social
psychology, studying the influence of values and norms on prosocial behaviour.
About the Authors xi
Currently, Madelijne Gorsira is working a Phd-candidate at the department of
Criminal Law and Criminology at VU University on a research project on the
causation of corruption in public–private interactions. By conducting surveys
among businessmen and public officials, case-studies of criminal investigations
and experiments, she is trying to identify the individual and situational factors that
cause corruption.
Jonathan A. Grant is a Professor of Modern Russian History in the Department
of History at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. His most recent book,
Rulers, Guns, and Money (Harvard 2007) examines the global armaments business
in the era of high imperialism from roughly 1860 to 1914. Professor Grant’s areas
of interest include Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Central Asia, and the First
World War. He is currently writing a book on the armaments business in Eastern
Europe 191–1939.
Wim Huisman is professor of Criminology at the department of Criminal Law
and Criminology of VU University Amsterdam. He specializes in research on
the prevalence and the causes of corporate and white-collar crime. Recently, he
published on corporate crime and economic crisis, corporate involvement in gross
human rights violations, environmental crime, food fraud and corporate crime
theory. He teaches courses on white-collar crime in the Criminology programmes
of the VU School of Criminology and is the co-chair of the European Society of
Criminology’s Working Group on Organizational Crime (EUROC). He is editor of
the Routledge handbook on white-collar and corporate crime in Europe.
Edward R. Kleemans is Full Professor at the VU School of Criminology, Faculty
of Law, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Chair: Serious and Organized
Crime and Criminal Justice). He is currently program leader of the research program
Empirical and Normative Studies of the Faculty of Law and conducts research into
organized crime activities and the interaction between offenders and the criminal
justice system (including policing issues). Until 2013, he was Head of the Crime,
Law Enforcement and Sanctions Research Division (CRS) of the Research and
Documentation Centre (WODC), Ministry of Security and Justice, the Hague, the
Netherlands. From 1996 to 2013 he coordinated the Dutch Organized Crime Monitor
(OCM), a systematic, continuing research program of WODC, Erasmus University
Rotterdam and VU University Amsterdam into the nature of organized crime in the
Netherlands, based upon intensive analysis police investigations. Four major reports
were sent to the Dutch Parliament (1998, 2002, 2007, 2012) and the new data sweep of
the Dutch Organized Crime Monitor is on its way now. Edward Kleemans graduated
in public administration and public policy (with the highest possible distinction)
and earned a Ph.D. (with the highest possible distinction) from Twente University,
the Netherlands. He serves on the committee on the Illicit Tobacco Market of the
National Academy of Sciences (US) and on editorial boards of the European Journal
of Criminology, Global Crime and Trends in Organized Crime. Recent publications
appeared in Crime and Justice, British Journal of Criminology, European Journal
of Criminology, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Trends in
Organized Crime and The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime.
xii About the Authors
Marlou Schrover is a professor of migration history and social differences at
Leiden University. In 2013 she concluded a large (NWO vici) project on gender and
migration. Recent publications include Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global
and Historical Perspective (AUP, Amsterdam 2008) (with Joanne van der Leun,
Leo Lucassen and Chris Quispel), Komen en Gaan. Immigratie en Emigratie in
Nederland vanaf 1550 (Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 2008) (with Herman Obdeijn),
Gender, Migration and the Public Sphere 1850–2005 (Routledge, New York
2010) (with Eileen Janes Yeo), and Gender, Migration and categorisation: Making
distinctions amongst migrants in Western countries (1900) 1945–2010 (AUP,
Amsterdam 2013) (with Deirdre M. Moloney). She is co-editor of the five volumes
The encyclopedia of global human migration (Chichester Wiley–Blackwell 2013)
(chief editor Immanuel Ness, with Saer Maty Ba, Michael Borgolte, Donna
Gabaccia, Dirk Hoerder, Alex Julca, Cecilia Menjivar, and Gregory Woolf) and
moderator of H-Migration (the discussion list of migration historians).
Carl A. Trocki is a senior scholar of the history of Southeast Asia. He has pub-
lished on the history and politics of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Chinese
diaspora, and the drug trade in Asia. He has held appointments at Georgetown Uni-
versity in Washington, DC and the Queensland University of Technology in Bris-
bane, Australia. His recent books include Opium, Empire and the Global Political
Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750-1950 (1999), and Singapore:
Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control (2006), both by Routledge. He was also
an editor of Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Postwar Singapore (2008),
NUS Press. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA).
