The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime delivers a systematic, high-quality, and truly global approach to the topic and with it a more complete understanding of organized crime in its many forms for researchers, government officials, and policymakers.
The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime delivers a systematic, high-quality, and truly global approach to the topic and with it a more complete understanding of organized crime in its many forms for researchers, government officials, and policymakers.
Letizia Paoli is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leuven Faculty of Law, Belgium. She is the author of Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime Italian Style, coauthor (with Victoria A. Greenfield and Peter Reuter) of The World Heroin Market: Can Heroin Supply Be Cut? and (with Alessandro Donati) of The Sports Doping Market: Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control, and coeditor (with Cyrille Fijnaut) of Organised Crime in Europe.
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* List of Contributors * Introduction * Letizia Paoli * Part I Concept, Theories, History, and Research Methods * 1. Organized Crime: A Contested Concept * Letizia Paoli and Tom Vander Beken * 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Organized Crime * Edward R. Kleemans * 3. Searching for Organized Crime in History * Cyrille Fijnaut * 4. How to Research Organized Crime * Dick Hobbs and Georgios A. Antonopoulos * Part II Actors and Interactions * 5. The Italian Mafia * Letizia Paoli * 6. The Italian-American Mafia * Jay S. Albanese * 7. The Russian Mafia: Rise and Extincion * Vadim Volkov * 8. Organized Crime in Colombia: The Actors Running the Illegal Drug Industry * Francisco E. Thoumi * 9. Mexican Drug "Cartels" * Monica Medel and Francisco E. Thoumi * 10. Chinese Organized Crime * Ko Lin-Chin * 11. The Japanese Yakuza * Peter Hill * 12. Nigerian Criminal Organizations * Phil Willliams * 13. Gangs: Another Form of Organized Crime? * Scott H. Decker and David C. Pyrooz * 14. Opportunistic Structures of Organized Crime * Martin Bouchard and Carlo Morselli * 15. Organizing Crime: The State as Agent * Susanne Karstedt * 16. The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime * Henk van de Bunt, Dina Siegel, and Damián Zaitch * Part III Markets and Activities * 17. Protection and Extortion * Federico Varese * 18. Drug Markets and Organized Crime * Peter Reuter * 19. Human Smuggling, Human Trafficking, and Exploitation in the Sex Industry * Edward R. Kleemans and Monika Smit * 20. Illegal Gambling * Toine Spapens * 21. Money Laundering * Michael Levi * 22. Arms Trafficking * Andrew Feinstein and Paul Holden * 23. Organized Fraud * Michael Levi * 24. Cybercrime * Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Peter Grabosky * 25. The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources * Tim Boekhout van Solinge * Part IV Policies to Control Organized Crime * 26. Organized Crime Control in the United States of America * James B. Jacobs and Elizabeth Dondlinger Wyman * 27. U.S. Organized Crime Control Policies Exported Abroad * Margaret Beare and Michael Woodiwiss * 28. European Union Organized Crime Control Policies * Cyrille Fijnaut * 29. The Fight against the Mafia in Italy * Antonio La Spina * 30. Organized Crime Control in Australia and New Zealand * Julie Ayling and Roderic Broadhurst * 31. Organized Crime "Control" in Asia: Experiences from India, China, and the Golden Triangle * Roderic Broadhurst and Nicholas Farrelly * 32. Finance-Oriented Strategies of Organized Crime Control * Michael Kilchling * Index
* List of Contributors * Introduction * Letizia Paoli * Part I Concept, Theories, History, and Research Methods * 1. Organized Crime: A Contested Concept * Letizia Paoli and Tom Vander Beken * 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Organized Crime * Edward R. Kleemans * 3. Searching for Organized Crime in History * Cyrille Fijnaut * 4. How to Research Organized Crime * Dick Hobbs and Georgios A. Antonopoulos * Part II Actors and Interactions * 5. The Italian Mafia * Letizia Paoli * 6. The Italian-American Mafia * Jay S. Albanese * 7. The Russian Mafia: Rise and Extincion * Vadim Volkov * 8. Organized Crime in Colombia: The Actors Running the Illegal Drug Industry * Francisco E. Thoumi * 9. Mexican Drug "Cartels" * Monica Medel and Francisco E. Thoumi * 10. Chinese Organized Crime * Ko Lin-Chin * 11. The Japanese Yakuza * Peter Hill * 12. Nigerian Criminal Organizations * Phil Willliams * 13. Gangs: Another Form of Organized Crime? * Scott H. Decker and David C. Pyrooz * 14. Opportunistic Structures of Organized Crime * Martin Bouchard and Carlo Morselli * 15. Organizing Crime: The State as Agent * Susanne Karstedt * 16. The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime * Henk van de Bunt, Dina Siegel, and Damián Zaitch * Part III Markets and Activities * 17. Protection and Extortion * Federico Varese * 18. Drug Markets and Organized Crime * Peter Reuter * 19. Human Smuggling, Human Trafficking, and Exploitation in the Sex Industry * Edward R. Kleemans and Monika Smit * 20. Illegal Gambling * Toine Spapens * 21. Money Laundering * Michael Levi * 22. Arms Trafficking * Andrew Feinstein and Paul Holden * 23. Organized Fraud * Michael Levi * 24. Cybercrime * Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Peter Grabosky * 25. The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources * Tim Boekhout van Solinge * Part IV Policies to Control Organized Crime * 26. Organized Crime Control in the United States of America * James B. Jacobs and Elizabeth Dondlinger Wyman * 27. U.S. Organized Crime Control Policies Exported Abroad * Margaret Beare and Michael Woodiwiss * 28. European Union Organized Crime Control Policies * Cyrille Fijnaut * 29. The Fight against the Mafia in Italy * Antonio La Spina * 30. Organized Crime Control in Australia and New Zealand * Julie Ayling and Roderic Broadhurst * 31. Organized Crime "Control" in Asia: Experiences from India, China, and the Golden Triangle * Roderic Broadhurst and Nicholas Farrelly * 32. Finance-Oriented Strategies of Organized Crime Control * Michael Kilchling * Index
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