The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime

713 Pages·2014·5.41 MB·English

by  Letizia Paoli

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
O R G A N I Z E D
C R I M E
THE OXFORD HANDBOOKS IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
General Editor: Michael Tonry
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GENDER, SEX, AND CRIME
Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy
POLICE AND POLICING
Michael D. Reisig and Robert J. Kane
ETHNICITY, CRIME, AND IMMIGRATION
Sandra Bucerius and Michael Tonry
CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY
Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox
JUVENILE CRIME AND JUVENILE JUSTICE
Barry C. Feld and Donna M. Bishop
CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Michael Tonry
CRIME PREVENTION
Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington
SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS
Joan Petersilia and Kevin R. Reitz
CRIME AND PUBLIC POLICY
Michael Tonry
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
ORGANIZED
CRIME
Edited by
LETIZIA PAOLI
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The Oxford handbook of organized crime / edited by Letizia Paoli.
pages cm. — (The Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–973044–5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Organized crime. 2. Criminology.
I. Paoli, Letizia.
HV6441.O94 2014
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Contents
List of Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Letizia Paoli
PART I CONCEPT, THEORIES, HISTORY, AND
RESEARCH METHODS
1. Organized Crime: A Contested Concept 13
Letizia Paoli and Tom Vander Beken
2. Theoretical Perspectives on Organized Crime 32
Edward R. Kleemans
3. Searching for Organized Crime in History 53
Cyrille Fijnaut
4. How to Research Organized Crime 96
Dick Hobbs and Georgios A. Antonopoulos
PART II ACTORS AND INTERACTIONS
5. The Italian Mafia 121
Letizia Paoli
6. The Italian-American Mafia 142
Jay S. Albanese
7. The Russian Mafia: Rise and Extinction 159
Vadim Volkov
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8. Organized Crime in Colombia: The Actors Running the
Illegal Drug Industry 177
Francisco E. Thoumi
9. Mexican Drug “Cartels” 196
Monica Medel and Francisco E. Thoumi
10. Chinese Organized Crime 219
Ko-Lin Chin
11. The Japanese Yakuza 234
Peter Hill
12. Nigerian Criminal Organizations 254
Phil Williams
13. Gangs: Another Form of Organized Crime? 270
Scott H. Decker and David C. Pyrooz
14. Opportunistic Structures of Organized Crime 288
Martin Bouchard and Carlo Morselli
15. Organizing Crime: The State as Agent 303
Susanne Karstedt
16. The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime 321
Henk van de Bunt, Dina Siegel, and Damián Zaitch
PART III MARKETS AND ACTIVITIES
17. Protection and Extortion 343
Federico Varese
18. Drug Markets and Organized Crime 359
Peter Reuter
19. Human Smuggling, Human Trafficking, and Exploitation in the
Sex Industry 381
Edward R. Kleemans and Monika Smit
20. Illegal Gambling 402
Toine Spapens
CONTENTS vii
21. Money Laundering 419
Michael Levi
22. Arms Trafficking 444
Andrew Feinstein and Paul Holden
23. Organized Fraud 460
Michael Levi
24. Cybercrime 482
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Peter Grabosky
25. The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources 500
Tim Boekhout van Solinge
PART IV POLICIES TO CONTROL
ORGANIZED CRIME
26. Organized Crime Control in the United States of America 529
James B. Jacobs and Elizabeth Dondlinger Wyman
27. U.S. Organized Crime Control Policies Exported Abroad 545
Margaret Beare and Michael Woodiwiss
28. European Union Organized Crime Control Policies 572
Cyrille Fijnaut
29. The Fight against the Italian Mafia 593
Antonio La Spina
30. Organized Crime Control in Australia and New Zealand 612
Julie Ayling and Roderic Broadhurst
31. Organized Crime “Control” in Asia: Experiences from India, China,
and the Golden Triangle 634
Roderic Broadhurst and Nicholas Farrelly
32. Finance-Oriented Strategies of Organized Crime Control 655
Michael Kilchling
Index 675

List of Contributors
Jay S. Albanese is professor in the Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs at
Virginia Commonwealth University, US.
Georgios A. Antonopoulos is professor of criminology in the School of Social Sciences
and Law at Teesside University, UK.
Julie Ayling is a research fellow in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian
National University.
Margaret Beare is professor in the Osgoode Hall Law School and former director of the
Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption at
York University, Canada.
Tim Boekhout van Solinge is assistant professor of criminology at Utrecht University
and coordinator of the Criminology Course of the Dutch Study Centre of the Public
Ministry.
Martin Bouchard is associate professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser
University, Canada.
Roderic Broadhurst is professor of criminology in the Australian National University’s
College of Arts and Social Sciences.
Ko-Lin Chin is a distinguished professor at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, US.
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo is senior lecturer in the School of Information Technology
and Mathematical Sciences at the University of South Australia.
Scott H. Decker is foundation professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal
Justice at Arizona State University, US.
Elizabeth Dondlinger Wyman received her J.D. from New York University Law School
in 2010.
Nicholas Farrelly is a research fellow at the School of International, Political and Strategic
Studies at Australian National University.
Andrew Feinstein was an ANC member of parliament in South Africa’s first democratic
elections in 1994 and is now a co-director of the organization Corruption Watch, UK.
Cyrille Fijnaut is professor emeritus of international and comparative criminal law at
the Law School of Tilburg University, The Netherlands.