Criminal Law

The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime

By Letizia Paoli
Oxford University Press USA July 2019

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780199730445
Publisher
Oxford University Press USA
Publication
July 2019
Format
Paperback , 712 pages
Jurisdiction
U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • Takes a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of organized crime with contributions from leading scholars in various social science fields
  • Covers the main players in international crime, including both the Italian and Russian Mafias as well as the Yakuza
  • Everything from protection and extortion to drug, arms, and human trafficking to cyber crime is explored in-depth in individual chapters

The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime provides an informed, authoritative, and comprehensive overview of current knowledge about the nature and effects of the principal forms of organized crime, as well as the type and effectiveness of efforts to prevent and control them. 

Reflecting the transnational dimensions of criminal organizations and their activities, and the growing role of international organizations reacting to organized crime, The Handbook takes a global perspective with first-rate contributions from around the world covering the main regions and countries in which organized crime activity is at its greatest. It is divided into four sections: concepts and research methods, actors and interactions, markets and activities, and, finally, national and international policies to fight criminal organizations. 

While there are a number of organized crime texts available, none delivers a systematic, high-quality and truly global approach to the topic as is available in The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime. Its insights illuminate both traditional areas of study in the field and pathways for developing cutting-edge research questions.

Readership: Students and scholars of law, sociology, criminology, and criminal justice.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Introduction
Letizia Paoli
Part I. Concept, Theories, History and Research Methods
1. Organized Crime: A Contested Concept
Letizia Paoli and Tom Van der 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 Albanese
7. 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 and Min Liu
11. The Japanese Yakuza
Peter Hill
12. West African Organized Crime
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. Cyber Crime
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 A. Dondlinger
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 Rod Broadhurst
31. Organized Crime Control in Asia: Examples from India, China and the Golden Triangle
Rod Broadhurst and Nicholas Farrelly
32. Finance-Oriented Strategies of Organized Crime Control
Michael Kilchling
Index

About the Author

Letizia Paoli is Professor of Criminology at the K.U. Leuven Faculty of Law, Belgium and author or editor of three books, including Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime Italian Style and (with Victoria Greenfield and Peter Reuter) The World Heroin Market: Can Heroin Supply Be Cut?.

Contributors: 
Jay Albanese is Professor in the Wilder School of Government in Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Georgios A. Antonopoulos is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences & Law at Tesseride University.
Julie Ayling is a Research Fellow in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University and an Associate Investigator in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security.
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.
Tim Boekhout van Solinge is Professor of Criminology at Utrecht University and coordinator of the Criminology Course of the Dutch Study Centre of the Public Ministry.
Martin Bouchard is Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University.
Rod Broadhurst is a Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security and a Professor in the School of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy in the Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific.
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo is Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer and Information Science at the University of South Australia.
Scott H. Decker is the Foundation Professor and Director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University at the Downtown Campus.
Elizabeth A. Dondlinger received her J.D. from New York University Law 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.
Cyrille Fijnaut is Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Law at the Law School of Tilburg University.
Peter Grabosky is the Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security.
Peter Hill is a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at University of Oxford.
Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology with special reference to Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Paul Holden is a South African historian and writer focusing on corruption and governance issues. He is the author of two books on the arms trade, The Arms Deal in Your Pocket and The Devil in the Detail: How the Arms Deal Changed Everything. 
James B. Jacobs is the Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts and Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University Law.
Susanne Karstedt is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Leeds.
Michael Kilchling is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law.
Edward R. Kleemans is Head of the Crime, Law Enforcement and Sanctions Research Department of the Research and Documentation Centre, and Professor in the School of Law at VU University Amsterdam.
Antonio La Spina is Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Palermo.
Michael Levi is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, Wales.
Ko Lin-Chin is a Distinguished Professor at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice.
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Monica Medel is a graduate student in the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas. She previously spent fifteen years as a reporter covering drug trafficking in Mexico.
Carlo Morselli is Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology, Université de Montréal.
Letizia Paoli is Professor at the Leuven Institute of Criminology of the K.U. Leuven Faculty of Law.
David C. Pyrooz is a doctoral candidate in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University.
Peter Reuter is Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the Department of Criminology at the University of Maryland.
Dina Siegel is Professor of Criminology at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Utrecht University.
Toine Spapens is Professor of Criminology at Tilburg Law School.
Monika Smit is a researcher at WODC, The Ministry of Justice and Free University Amsterdam.
Francisco E. Thoumi is a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Latin American and Carribean Center at Florida International University.
Henk van de Bunt is Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the Erasmus Rotterdam University and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Social Security.
Tom Van der Beken is Professor of Criminology at Ghent University Law School.
Federico Varese is Professor of Criminology at University of Oxford.
Vadim Volkov is Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Sociology, and Head of the Research Institute for the Rule of Law at the European University at St. Petersburg.
Phil Williams is Professor in the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Michael Woodiwiss is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of the West of England.
Damián Zaitch is Associate Professor of Criminology at Willem Pompe Institute at Utrecht University.

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