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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.
Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures
Introduction
The previous two chapters have examined illegal structures that are centered on either economic or social functions for which the terms entrepreneurial structures and associational structures have been used. This chapter is devoted to describing and explaining a third category, one that encompasses illegal structures that are political in nature because they are centered on the exercise of power. These phenomena fall into the category of quasi-governmental structures because in their purest, ideal-typical form they do indeed represent some form of underworld government.
Quasi-governmental structures enable certain criminals to control other criminals who operate in a particular illegal market or in a particular geographical area. Quasi-governmental structures regulate behavior, they protect contractual and property rights in ...
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