Arms Trafficking
Andrew Feinstein and Paul Holden
This essay provides a brief overview of arms trafficking, its participants and enabling partners, and the prospects of a reduction in arms trafficking through various legal mechanisms. It ...
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A Brief History of the Underworld and Organized Crime, c. 1750–1950
Heather Shore
This chapter explores the evolution of concepts and definitions relating to criminal organization since 1750. Terms such as the “underworld,” “organized crime,” and “professional crime” ...
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Chinese Organized Crime
Ko-lin Chin
The author draws on findings from several empirical research projects in this essay, which presents an overview of the traditional Chinese organized crime groups and the newly established ...
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CyberCrime
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Peter Grabosky
This essay considers how information and communications technologies (ICT) are used by organized crime groups. Three categories of groups are identified: traditional organized criminal ...
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Drug Markets and Organized Crime
Peter Reuter
This essay examines the variation in relationships between drug market enterprises and organized crime across different levels of the market, countries, and drugs (cocaine, heroin, ...
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European Union Organized Crime Control Policies
Cyrille Fijnaut
The European Union’s policy on organized crime evolved over the years from a vague unease about this problem around 1990 into a rather comprehensive and coherent set of strategies and ...
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The Fight Against the Italian Mafia
Antonio La Spina
Cosa Nostra, the ˜Ndrangheta, and the Camorra have their headquarters in Italy. In the past 30 years, Italian policies against the Mafia have developed steadily and are now deemed a best ...
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Finance-Oriented Strategies of Organized Crime Control
Michael Kilchling
The essay provides an analysis of financial strategies of organized crime control, including their development from a traditional, vaguely moral concept (“crime should not pay”) to a ...
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Gangs Another Form of Organized Crime?
Scott H. Decker and David Pyrooz
This essay places gangs in the broader context of organized criminal groups, including transnational organized crime, drug smuggling networks, human trafficking operations, and terrorist ...
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How to Research Organized Crime
Dick Hobbs and Georgios A. Antonopoulos
Despite the challenges, the study of organized crime has developed rapidly in the past 20 years in both quantitative and qualitative terms. The purpose of this essay is to provide an ...
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