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The Private Sector and Organized Crime: Criminal Entrepreneurship, Illicit Profits, and Private Sector Security Governance

The Private Sector and Organized Crime: Criminal Entrepreneurship, Illicit Profits, and Private Sector Security Governance

Author: Yuliya Zabyelina; Kimberley L. Thachuk
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032056609
Published In: September 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book contributes to the literature on organized crime by providing a detailed account of the various nuances of what happens when criminal organizations misuse or penetrate legitimate businesses. It advances the existing scholarship on attacks, infiltration, and capture of legal businesses by organized crime and sheds light on the important role the private sector can play to fight back. It considers a range of industries from bars and restaurants to labour-intensive enterprises such as construction and waste management, to sectors susceptible to illicit activities including transportation, wholesale and retail trade, and businesses controlled by fragmented legislation such as gambling.

Organized criminal groups capitalize on legitimate businesses beleaguered by economic downturns, government regulations, natural disasters, societal conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic. To survive, some private companies have even become the willing partners of criminal organizations. Thus, the relationships between licit businesses and organized crime are highly varied and can range from victimization of businesses to willing collusion and even exploitation of organized crime by the private sector – albeit with arrangements that typically allow plausible deniability. In other words, these relationships are highly diverse and create a complex reality which is the focus of the articles presented here.

This book will appeal to students, academics, and policy practitioners with an interest in organized crime. It will also provide important supplementary reading for undergraduate and graduate courses on topics such as transnational security issues, transnational organized crime, international criminal justice, criminal finance, non-state actors, international affairs, comparative politics, and economics and business courses.

1. It Is Everybody’s Business: Risks to the Private Sector and its Engagement in Countering Organized Crime, Yuliya Zabyelina and Kimberley L. Thachuk

2. The Waste Management Industry, Kimberley L. Thachuk and Itena Dhrami

3. The Port Industry Luca Storti and Anna Sergi

4. The Sports Industry, Vincenzo Scalia

6. The Pharmaceutical Industry, Stephen M. Noguera

7. Hospitality Businesses, Yuliya Zabyelina

8. The Food Industry, Alice Rizzuti

9. Private Art Businesses, Donna Yates and Christoph Rausch

10.The Transportation Industry, Lucia Bird and Livia Wagner

11. The Entertainment Industry (Gambling), Peter Duncan, Nicholas Lord, David Buil-Gil, and Emma Barrett

12. Information and Communication Technology Service Providers, Marie-Helen (Maria) Maras

13. The Retail Industry, Marco Dugato

14. The Private Security Industry, Anja Jakobi