Summary
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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.
Organized Crime and Society
Introduction to Part III
The previous five chapters have examined the various activities and structures associated with organized crime. The umbrella term organized crime was broken down into smaller categories along the three basic dimensions of criminal activities, criminal structures, and illegal governance. Three basic types of “organized” criminal activities were discussed: market-based crimes, predatory crimes, and illegal governance crimes. Organized criminal structures were examined based on the distinction of entrepreneurial structures, associational structures, and quasi-governmental structures. Relatively little attention has been paid so far to the social context of all of these phenomena. The purpose of the ...
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