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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
