In contrast to a globalizing approach to “transnational organized crime,” this edited volume studies socio-historical environments in which mafia-esque violence has found a fertile ground for growth and development within the political arena. The various chapters explore empirical data showing how politico-criminal configurations emerge, are formed and allow for interactions between powerful official stakeholders and “professionals of the use of force”. Links between military know-how and political power in Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey; the conversion of “violent entrepreneurs” into the Russian or Bulgarian political arena; the political racketeering activities of leaders of armed nationalist movements in Corsica; interactions between the Calabrese mafia and business; investment by the Belizean government in illegal activities; or else, monetary illegalism in the Somalia conflict… The various chapters of this book encourage a comparative approach to the study of mafia violence in the making and running of State power.
Geopolitics is an increasingly important tool to understand national and international relations. This book unravels how organized crime is not just a marginal problem but part of a bigger geopolitical and asymmetrical warfare strategy.
Typically, other reference works on organized crime in the United States focus primarily on the Mafia and La Cosa Nostra, and neglect the many new ethnic and racial criminal organizations...
This one-volume reference also assesses law enforcement and crime control programs during the 20th century.
The contributors to this volume, which includes some of the best recent interdisciplinary scholarship on states in relation to social structures, make use of theoretically engaged comparative and historical investigations to provide ...
Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians?
This book offers a comprehensive survey, including an extensive history of the Mafia in the United States; a legal analysis of the offenses that underlie organized crimes; specific attention to modern manifestations of organized crime ...
Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, this book situates organized crime in the debate on state formation and examines the ...
... Pete ( historian ) 87 D'Anna , Anthony ( gangster ) 150 Darrow , Clarence ( lawyer ) 199 Daugherty ( attorney ... Paul ( attorney ) 159 Dinkins , David ( mayor of New York ) 302 Dioguardi , John ( gangster ) 163 discrimination .
Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications.
This book of case studies explores the nature of violence in countries throughout the region.