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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.
Countermeasures Against Organized Crime
Countermeasures Against Organized Crime
Introduction
This chapter provides a systematic overview of what is being done about the phenomena that are variously labeled organized crime and that have been discussed at length in the previous chapters. The different types of countermeasures will be examined with two questions in mind:
- What is the nature of the measure?
- How are criminal activities, criminal structures, and illegal governance affected by the measure?
Given the social embeddedness of criminal activities and criminal structures (Chapter 9), a broad range of socioeconomic policies could qualify as measures against organized crime (Bjørgo, in press). For example, programs to reduce poverty, unemployment, and discrimination may reduce the appeal that joining a criminal organization has for young people (see Reuter, 1995, p. 96). It ...
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