Organized crime : analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures and extra-legal governance /: analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures and extra-legal governance. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Klaus von Lampe.
• Authors: Lampe, Klaus von, 1961-
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Part I: Organized Crime as a Construct and as an Object of Study; Chapter 1: Introduction - The Study of Organized Crime; Phenomena Associated With Organized Crime; Conceptual Confusion; What Is the Object of Study in the Study of Organized Crime?; Chapter 2: The Concept of Organized Crime; The Conceptual History of Organized Crime; The Reception of the American Concept of Organized Crime in Other Countries; Lessons to Be Learned From the Conceptual History of Organized Crime; Overview of Definitions of Organized Crime; Outline of a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Organized Crime; The Concept of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 3: Organized Crime Research; The Study of Organized Crime as an Academic Subdiscipline; The History of the Study of Organized Crime; The Main Lines of Contemporary Research; Challenges to the Study of Organized Crime; Research on Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion; PART II: Empirical Manifestations of Organized Crime; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 4: Organized Criminal Activities; Why Study Organized Criminal Activities Separate From Criminal Organizations?; Outline of This Chapter; Case Study: Cocaine Trafficking; Case Study: The Trafficking in Stolen Motor Vehicles; Conceptualizations of Organized Criminal Activities; The Main Types of Organized Criminal Activities; Illegal Markets; The Conceptualization of Particular Organized Criminal Activities; Organized Criminal Activities: Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 5: Criminal Structures – An Overview; Introduction; Case Study: Pedophile Networks; Existing Classifications of Criminal Organizations; The Three Basic Types of Criminal Structures; The Basic Forms of Criminal Structures: Markets, Networks, and Hierarchies; The Conceptualization of Criminal Networks; The Emergence and Persistence of Criminal Network Ties; Criminal Structures: Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 6: Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures; Introduction; Case Study: The Lavin Enterprise; The Illegal Firm; Conceptualizing Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures; Explaining the Structure of Illegal Firms; Illegal Entrepreneurial Structures: Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 7: Associational Structures; Introduction; Case Studies of Associations of Criminals; Variations Across Illegal Associational Structures; The Core Functions of Associational Structures; Delineating Associational Structures from Entrepreneurial Structures and from Quasi-Governmental Structures; Associational Structures: Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 8: Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures; Introduction; Case Study: The American Cosa Nostra; Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures; Monopolies in Illegal Markets; Quasi-Governmental Structures; Delineating Illegal-Market Monopolies and Quasi-Governmental Structures; Illegal-Market Monopolies and Monopolies of Violence: Summary and Conclusion; Part III: Organized Crime and Society; Chapter 9: The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime; Introduction; The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime: Illegal Goods and Services; The Social Embeddedness of Organized Criminals; The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 10: Organized Crime and Legitimate Business; Introduction; Conceptualizations of Organized Crime and Legitimate Business Along the Dimensions of Activities, Structures, and Governance; Organized Criminals and Legitimate Business; Racketeering: Criminal Control Over Business Sectors; Business Sectors Vulnerable to Criminal Influence; Organized Crime and Legitimate Business: Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 11: Organized Crime and Government; Introduction; Conceptualizations of Organized Crime and Government: Activities, Structures, and Governance; The Relationship Between Organized Crime and Government as Two Separate Entities; Organized Crime within Government; The Relationship Between Organized Crime and Government: Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 12: Transnational Organized Crime; Introduction; Transnational Criminal Activities; Cross-Border Mobility and Cross-Border Networking of Criminals; Transnational Criminal Structures; The Cyberization of Organized Crime and the Organization of Cybercrime; Transnational Organized Crime and Organized Cybercrime: Summary and Conclusion; Note; PART IV: The Big Picture and the Arsenal of Countermeasures; Introduction to Part IV; Chapter 13: The Big Picture of Organized Crime; Introduction; The Range of Phenomena That Fall Under the Umbrella Concept of Organized Crime; Modelling Organized Crime; Typologies of Organized Crime; Trajectories in the Development of Organized Crime; The Big Picture of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 14: Countermeasures Against Organized Crime; Introduction; Substantive Criminal Law as an Instrument Against Organized Crime; Investigative Tools and Institutional Innovations as Instruments Against Organized Crime; Non-Criminal Justice Approaches to Combating ‘Organized Crime’; Combating Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion; Bibliography; Index;
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 364.106; Organized crime
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483310831
• Related ISBNs: 9781452203508
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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