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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 Entrepreneurial Structures
Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures
Introduction
The previous chapter has introduced three basic types of structures that connect criminals: entrepreneurial, associational, and quasi governmental. These structures differ with regard to the functions they perform, and they each represent unique responses to the specific challenges that criminals face. In this and the two following chapters, these three functional types will be examined one by one, beginning with illegal entrepreneurial structures in this chapter, followed by illegal associational structures in Chapter 7 and illegal quasi-governmental structures in Chapter 8.
The three chapters are similar in that they investigate the specific nature and main characteristics of each type of structure. At the same time, there are important differences between this chapter and the following two chapters reflecting differences in ...
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