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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.
Transnational Organized Crime
Transnational Organized Crime
Introduction
The previous three chapters have examined how organized crime relates to the broader social context within individual countries, either on the national or on the local level. This chapter examines the international ramifications of organized crime and explores how illegal activities and criminal structures extend across borders. What is excluded from this analysis is the special case of maritime piracy, where criminals cross national maritime borders onto the high seas (Bueger, 2014; Twyman-Ghoshal & Pierce, 2014).
Since around the 1980s, the focus of the traditional debate on organized crime has shifted from a local and national to an international frame of reference, with an emphasis on what is commonly called transnational organized crime (von Lampe, 2001a, 2011c). After the end ...
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