Organized Crime

Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance
Klaus von Lampe
Organized Crime
August 2015 | 488 pages | Sage US
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2016 Outstanding Publication Award (The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime)

Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance provides a systematic overview of the processes and structures commonly labeled “organized crime,” drawing on the pertinent empirical and theoretical literature primarily from North America, Europe, and Australia. The main emphasis is placed on a comprehensive classificatory scheme that highlights underlying patterns and dynamics, rather than particular historical manifestations of organized crime. Esteemed author Klaus von Lampe strategically breaks the book down into three key dimensions: (1) illegal activities, (2) patterns of interpersonal relations that are directly or indirectly supporting these illegal activities, and (3) overarching illegal power structures that regulate and control these illegal activities and also extend their influence into the legal spheres of society. Within this framework, numerous case studies and topical issues from a variety of countries illustrate meaningful application of the conceptual and theoretical discussion.

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Part I: Organized Crime as a Construct and as an Object of Study

  • Chapter 1: Introduction - The Study of Organized Crime
  • Phenomena Associated With Organized Crime
  • Conceptual Confusion
  • What Is the Object of Study in the Study of Organized Crime?
  • Chapter 2: The Concept of Organized Crime
  • The Conceptual History of Organized Crime
  • The Reception of the American Concept of Organized Crime in Other Countries
  • Lessons to Be Learned From the Conceptual History of Organized Crime
  • Overview of Definitions of Organized Crime
  • Outline of a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Organized Crime
  • The Concept of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: Organized Crime Research
  • The Study of Organized Crime as an Academic Subdiscipline
  • The History of the Study of Organized Crime
  • The Main Lines of Contemporary Research
  • Challenges to the Study of Organized Crime
  • Research on Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion

PART II: Empirical Manifestations of Organized Crime

  • Introduction to Part II
  • Chapter 4: Organized Criminal Activities
  • Why Study Organized Criminal Activities Separate From Criminal Organizations?
  • Outline of This Chapter
  • Case Study: Cocaine Trafficking
  • Case Study: The Trafficking in Stolen Motor Vehicles
  • Conceptualizations of Organized Criminal Activities
  • The Main Types of Organized Criminal Activities
  • Illegal Markets
  • The Conceptualization of Particular Organized Criminal Activities
  • Organized Criminal Activities: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: Criminal Structures – An Overview
  • Introduction
  • Case Study: Pedophile Networks
  • Existing Classifications of Criminal Organizations
  • The Three Basic Types of Criminal Structures
  • The Basic Forms of Criminal Structures: Markets, Networks, and Hierarchies
  • The Conceptualization of Criminal Networks
  • The Emergence and Persistence of Criminal Network Ties
  • Criminal Structures: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures
  • Introduction
  • Case Study: The Lavin Enterprise
  • The Illegal Firm
  • Conceptualizing Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures
  • Explaining the Structure of Illegal Firms
  • Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 7: Associational Structures
  • Introduction
  • Case Studies of Associations of Criminals
  • Variations Across Illegal Associational Structures
  • The Core Functions of Associational Structures
  • Delineating Associational Structures from Entrepreneurial Structures and from Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Associational Structures: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 8: Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Introduction
  • Case Study: The American Cosa Nostra
  • Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Monopolies in Illegal Markets
  • Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Delineating Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Illegal-Market Monopolies and Monopolies of Violence: Summary and Conclusion

Part III: Organized Crime and Society

  • Chapter 9: The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime: Illegal Goods and Services
  • The Social Embeddedness of Organized Criminals
  • The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 10: Organized Crime and Legitimate Business
  • Introduction
  • Conceptualizations of Organized Crime and Legitimate Business Along the Dimensions of Activities, Structures, and Governance
  • Organized Criminals and Legitimate Business
  • Racketeering: Criminal Control Over Business Sectors
  • Business Sectors Vulnerable to Criminal Influence
  • Organized Crime and Legitimate Business: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 11: Organized Crime and Government
  • Introduction
  • Conceptualizations of Organized Crime and Government: Activities, Structures, and Governance
  • The Relationship Between Organized Crime and Government as Two Separate Entities
  • Organized Crime within Government
  • The Relationship Between Organized Crime and Government: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 12: Transnational Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • Transnational Criminal Activities
  • Cross-Border Mobility and Cross-Border Networking of Criminals
  • Transnational Criminal Structures
  • The Cyberization of Organized Crime and the Organization of Cybercrime
  • Transnational Organized Crime and Organized Cybercrime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Note

PART IV: The Big Picture and the Arsenal of Countermeasures

  • Introduction to Part IV
  • Chapter 13: The Big Picture of Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • The Range of Phenomena That Fall Under the Umbrella Concept of Organized Crime
  • Modelling Organized Crime
  • Typologies of Organized Crime
  • Trajectories in the Development of Organized Crime
  • The Big Picture of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 14: Countermeasures Against Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • Substantive Criminal Law as an Instrument Against Organized Crime
  • Investigative Tools and Institutional Innovations as Instruments Against Organized Crime
  • Non-Criminal Justice Approaches to Combating ‘Organized Crime’
  • Combating Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

Additional materials

Description

2016 Outstanding Publication Award (The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime)

Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance provides a systematic overview of the processes and structures commonly labeled “organized crime,” drawing on the pertinent empirical and theoretical literature primarily from North America, Europe, and Australia. The main emphasis is placed on a comprehensive classificatory scheme that highlights underlying patterns and dynamics, rather than particular historical manifestations of organized crime. Esteemed author Klaus von Lampe strategically breaks the book down into three key dimensions: (1) illegal activities, (2) patterns of interpersonal relations that are directly or indirectly supporting these illegal activities, and (3) overarching illegal power structures that regulate and control these illegal activities and also extend their influence into the legal spheres of society. Within this framework, numerous case studies and topical issues from a variety of countries illustrate meaningful application of the conceptual and theoretical discussion.

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Part I: Organized Crime as a Construct and as an Object of Study

  • Chapter 1: Introduction - The Study of Organized Crime
  • Phenomena Associated With Organized Crime
  • Conceptual Confusion
  • What Is the Object of Study in the Study of Organized Crime?
  • Chapter 2: The Concept of Organized Crime
  • The Conceptual History of Organized Crime
  • The Reception of the American Concept of Organized Crime in Other Countries
  • Lessons to Be Learned From the Conceptual History of Organized Crime
  • Overview of Definitions of Organized Crime
  • Outline of a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Organized Crime
  • The Concept of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: Organized Crime Research
  • The Study of Organized Crime as an Academic Subdiscipline
  • The History of the Study of Organized Crime
  • The Main Lines of Contemporary Research
  • Challenges to the Study of Organized Crime
  • Research on Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion

PART II: Empirical Manifestations of Organized Crime

  • Introduction to Part II
  • Chapter 4: Organized Criminal Activities
  • Why Study Organized Criminal Activities Separate From Criminal Organizations?
  • Outline of This Chapter
  • Case Study: Cocaine Trafficking
  • Case Study: The Trafficking in Stolen Motor Vehicles
  • Conceptualizations of Organized Criminal Activities
  • The Main Types of Organized Criminal Activities
  • Illegal Markets
  • The Conceptualization of Particular Organized Criminal Activities
  • Organized Criminal Activities: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: Criminal Structures – An Overview
  • Introduction
  • Case Study: Pedophile Networks
  • Existing Classifications of Criminal Organizations
  • The Three Basic Types of Criminal Structures
  • The Basic Forms of Criminal Structures: Markets, Networks, and Hierarchies
  • The Conceptualization of Criminal Networks
  • The Emergence and Persistence of Criminal Network Ties
  • Criminal Structures: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures
  • Introduction
  • Case Study: The Lavin Enterprise
  • The Illegal Firm
  • Conceptualizing Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures
  • Explaining the Structure of Illegal Firms
  • Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 7: Associational Structures
  • Introduction
  • Case Studies of Associations of Criminals
  • Variations Across Illegal Associational Structures
  • The Core Functions of Associational Structures
  • Delineating Associational Structures from Entrepreneurial Structures and from Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Associational Structures: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 8: Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Introduction
  • Case Study: The American Cosa Nostra
  • Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Monopolies in Illegal Markets
  • Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Delineating Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Illegal-Market Monopolies and Monopolies of Violence: Summary and Conclusion

Part III: Organized Crime and Society

  • Chapter 9: The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime: Illegal Goods and Services
  • The Social Embeddedness of Organized Criminals
  • The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 10: Organized Crime and Legitimate Business
  • Introduction
  • Conceptualizations of Organized Crime and Legitimate Business Along the Dimensions of Activities, Structures, and Governance
  • Organized Criminals and Legitimate Business
  • Racketeering: Criminal Control Over Business Sectors
  • Business Sectors Vulnerable to Criminal Influence
  • Organized Crime and Legitimate Business: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 11: Organized Crime and Government
  • Introduction
  • Conceptualizations of Organized Crime and Government: Activities, Structures, and Governance
  • The Relationship Between Organized Crime and Government as Two Separate Entities
  • Organized Crime within Government
  • The Relationship Between Organized Crime and Government: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 12: Transnational Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • Transnational Criminal Activities
  • Cross-Border Mobility and Cross-Border Networking of Criminals
  • Transnational Criminal Structures
  • The Cyberization of Organized Crime and the Organization of Cybercrime
  • Transnational Organized Crime and Organized Cybercrime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Note

PART IV: The Big Picture and the Arsenal of Countermeasures

  • Introduction to Part IV
  • Chapter 13: The Big Picture of Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • The Range of Phenomena That Fall Under the Umbrella Concept of Organized Crime
  • Modelling Organized Crime
  • Typologies of Organized Crime
  • Trajectories in the Development of Organized Crime
  • The Big Picture of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 14: Countermeasures Against Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • Substantive Criminal Law as an Instrument Against Organized Crime
  • Investigative Tools and Institutional Innovations as Instruments Against Organized Crime
  • Non-Criminal Justice Approaches to Combating ‘Organized Crime’
  • Combating Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

Additional materials

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Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance

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2016 Outstanding Publication Award (The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime)

Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance provides a systematic overview of the processes and structures commonly labeled “organized crime,” drawing on the pertinent empirical and theoretical literature primarily from North America, Europe, and Australia. The main emphasis is placed on a comprehensive classificatory scheme that highlights underlying patterns and dynamics, rather than particular historical manifestations of organized crime. Esteemed author Klaus von Lampe strategically breaks the book down into three key dimensions: (1) illegal activities, (2) patterns of interpersonal relations that are directly or indirectly supporting these illegal activities, and (3) overarching illegal power structures that regulate and control these illegal activities and also extend their influence into the legal spheres of society. Within this framework, numerous case studies and topical issues from a variety of countries illustrate meaningful application of the conceptual and theoretical discussion.


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Part I: Organized Crime as a Construct and as an Object of Study
  • Chapter 1: Introduction - The Study of Organized Crime
  • Phenomena Associated With Organized Crime
  • Conceptual Confusion
  • What Is the Object of Study in the Study of Organized Crime?
  • Chapter 2: The Concept of Organized Crime
  • The Conceptual History of Organized Crime
  • The Reception of the American Concept of Organized Crime in Other Countries
  • Lessons to Be Learned From the Conceptual History of Organized Crime
  • Overview of Definitions of Organized Crime
  • Outline of a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Organized Crime
  • The Concept of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: Organized Crime Research
  • The Study of Organized Crime as an Academic Subdiscipline
  • The History of the Study of Organized Crime
  • The Main Lines of Contemporary Research
  • Challenges to the Study of Organized Crime
  • Research on Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • PART II: Empirical Manifestations of Organized Crime
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Chapter 4: Organized Criminal Activities
  • Why Study Organized Criminal Activities Separate From Criminal Organizations?
  • Outline of This Chapter
  • Case Study: Cocaine Trafficking
  • Case Study: The Trafficking in Stolen Motor Vehicles
  • Conceptualizations of Organized Criminal Activities
  • The Main Types of Organized Criminal Activities
  • Illegal Markets
  • The Conceptualization of Particular Organized Criminal Activities
  • Organized Criminal Activities: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: Criminal Structures – An Overview
  • Introduction
  • Case Study: Pedophile Networks
  • Existing Classifications of Criminal Organizations
  • The Three Basic Types of Criminal Structures
  • The Basic Forms of Criminal Structures: Markets, Networks, and Hierarchies
  • The Conceptualization of Criminal Networks
  • The Emergence and Persistence of Criminal Network Ties
  • Criminal Structures: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures
  • Introduction
  • Case Study: The Lavin Enterprise
  • The Illegal Firm
  • Conceptualizing Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures
  • Explaining the Structure of Illegal Firms
  • Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 7: Associational Structures
  • Introduction
  • Case Studies of Associations of Criminals
  • Variations Across Illegal Associational Structures
  • The Core Functions of Associational Structures
  • Delineating Associational Structures from Entrepreneurial Structures and from Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Associational Structures: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 8: Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Introduction
  • Case Study: The American Cosa Nostra
  • Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Monopolies in Illegal Markets
  • Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Delineating Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
  • Illegal-Market Monopolies and Monopolies of Violence: Summary and Conclusion
  • Part III: Organized Crime and Society
  • Chapter 9: The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime: Illegal Goods and Services
  • The Social Embeddedness of Organized Criminals
  • The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 10: Organized Crime and Legitimate Business
  • Introduction
  • Conceptualizations of Organized Crime and Legitimate Business Along the Dimensions of Activities, Structures, and Governance
  • Organized Criminals and Legitimate Business
  • Racketeering: Criminal Control Over Business Sectors
  • Business Sectors Vulnerable to Criminal Influence
  • Organized Crime and Legitimate Business: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 11: Organized Crime and Government
  • Introduction
  • Conceptualizations of Organized Crime and Government: Activities, Structures, and Governance
  • The Relationship Between Organized Crime and Government as Two Separate Entities
  • Organized Crime within Government
  • The Relationship Between Organized Crime and Government: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 12: Transnational Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • Transnational Criminal Activities
  • Cross-Border Mobility and Cross-Border Networking of Criminals
  • Transnational Criminal Structures
  • The Cyberization of Organized Crime and the Organization of Cybercrime
  • Transnational Organized Crime and Organized Cybercrime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Note
  • PART IV: The Big Picture and the Arsenal of Countermeasures
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • Chapter 13: The Big Picture of Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • The Range of Phenomena That Fall Under the Umbrella Concept of Organized Crime
  • Modelling Organized Crime
  • Typologies of Organized Crime
  • Trajectories in the Development of Organized Crime
  • The Big Picture of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Chapter 14: Countermeasures Against Organized Crime
  • Introduction
  • Substantive Criminal Law as an Instrument Against Organized Crime
  • Investigative Tools and Institutional Innovations as Instruments Against Organized Crime
  • Non-Criminal Justice Approaches to Combating ‘Organized Crime’
  • Combating Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

" It is without question, the most comprehensive and robust treatment of organized crime research, theories and perspectives that has been published to date."
Frederick T. Martens, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
"This book makes an important contribution to the academic literature. It moves well beyond the usual examination of "mafia" groups that has dominated the organized crime literature for years."
Robert Lombardo, Trends in Organized Crime
"(...) the reading is engaging, due to the concise expression and the short length of the chapters that permit the best absorption of elaborate concepts (...) although the topic itself is complex and eludes exhaustive presentation, von Lampe uses his extensive knowledge to present the pivotal developments in the field of organised crime (...)"
Elena Sciandra, Global Crime
"This is a major contribution to the literature. I like it enormously, and although I do not use a single text I recommend to my transnational organized crime class that if they buy one book it should be 'Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, and extra-legal governance."
Phil Williams, University of Pittsburgh
"Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, and extra-legal governance is by far the most comprehensive and thoughtful treatment of the subject matter I've ever come across and I don't see this changing easily in the foreseeable future either."
Georgios Antonopoulos & Georgios Papanicolaou, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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