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March 1, 2013

People>Research Associates>Jeffrey Scott McIllwain

Education

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1997

Academic Experience

1996-2000: Sonoma State University; 2000-2010: SDSU

Overseas Experience

Mexico, Netherlands, Spain

Languages

Spanish-2

Role in LAS Program

25%

Courses Taught

Seminar of Homeland Security, Seminar on Warfare and Homeland Security, Transnational Crime and Homeland Security, Border Security: The Case o the US, Border Security: The Case of Mexico, Organized Crime: Domestic and International Perspectives, Drugs: Domestic and International Perspectives

Current Research and Teaching Specialization

Immigration, Transnational Crime, Criminal Justice in Mexico

Recent Publications

  1. Joseph Albini and Jeffrey McIllwain. The Organized Crime Matrix (book manuscript under second round of review by Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)

  2. Jeffrey McIllwain. "Organized Crime as a Structure of Everyday Life." Felia Allum and Stanley Gilmour (editors). Routledge Handbook of Organized Crime (Routledge, forthcoming, 2010)

  3. Jefrey McIllwain and Clinton Leisz. "California Dreams and Gangster Schemes: The Standley Commission, the Guarantee Finance Company, and the Social System of Organized Crime in post-World War II Southern California." Frank Bovenkerk and Michael Levi (editors). The Organized Crime Community: Essays in Honor of Alan Block (Springer 2006)

  4. Jeffrey McIllwain. "Organized Crime and Intellectual Property Theft: The Case of Film Piracy." In Jay Albanese (ed.). Combating Piracy: Intellectual Property Theft and Fraud (New Brunswick, J.J.: Transaction, 2006).

Number of dissertation or theses supervised since 2005

12

San Diego State University