The Politics Of Organized Crime And The Organized Crime Of Politics

Author : Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135042134

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The Politics of Controlling Organized Crime in Greater China by Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo Pdf

In China, the central government has the political will to control organized crime, which is seen as a national security threat. The crux of the problem is how to control local governments that have demonstrated lax enforcement without sufficient regulation from the provincial governments. The development of prostitution, underground gambling and narcotics production has become so serious that the central government has to rely on anti-crime campaigns to combat these "three evils". This book explores the specific role of government institutions and agencies, notably the police, in controlling organised and cross-border crime in Greater China. Drawing heavily on original empirical data, it compares the both the states of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, as well as city-states Hong Kong and Macao. This region has become increasingly economically integrated, and human interactions have been enhanced through improved trade relations, tourism, and increased individual freedom. The book argues that the regime capacity of crime control across Greater China has been expanded through regional and international police cooperation as well as anti-crime campaigns. It suggests that a strong central state in China is necessary to rein in the local states and to prevent the risk of deteriorating into a political-criminal nexus. Focusing on regime capacity in crime control, regime autonomy from crime groups, and regime legitimacy in the fight against organized crime, this thought-provoking book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics and criminology more broadly.

Author : Herbert E. Alexander,Gerald E. Caiden
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : True Crime
ISBN : UOM:39015011045740

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The Politics and Economics of Organized Crime by Herbert E. Alexander,Gerald E. Caiden Pdf

Author : Felia Allum,Stan Gilmour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Organized crime
ISBN : 1786434563

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Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics by Felia Allum,Stan Gilmour Pdf

This multidisciplinary Handbook examines the interactions that develop between organised crime groups and politics across the globe. This exciting original collection highlights the difficulties involved in researching such relationships and shines a new light on how they evolve to become pervasive and destructive. This new Handbook brings together a unique group of international academics from sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, European and international studies.

Author : Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739113585

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The Politics of Organized Crime and the Organized Crime of Politics by Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt Pdf

More than simply a study of the mafia, Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt's work argues that collaboration between political science and criminology is critical to understanding the real nature of organized crime and its power. Schulte-Bockholt looks at specific case studies from Asia, Latin America, and Europe as he develops a theoretical discussion - drawing on the thought of Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Antonio Gramsci - of the intimate connections between criminal groups and elite structures. Ranging from an historical discussion of the world drug economy to an examination of the evolution of organized crime in the former Soviet Union, the book extends into a consideration of the possible future development of organized crime in the age of advanced globalization.

Author : Carlos Solar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351661645

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Government and Governance of Security by Carlos Solar Pdf

At a time when Latin America is experiencing societal unrest from human rights violations, corruption and weak institutions Government and Governance of Security offers an insightful understanding for the modern steering of crime policies. Using Chile as a case study, the book delivers an untold account of the trade-offs between political, judicial and policing institutions put in practice to confront organised crime since the country’s redemocratisation. In an effort to encompass the academic fields of political science, public policy and criminology, Carlos Solar challenges the current orthodoxies for understanding security and the promotion of the rule of law in developing states. His research aptly illuminates the practicalities of present-day governance and investigates how networks of institutions are formed and sustained across time and, subsequently, how these actors deal with issues of policy consensus and cooperation. To unveil the uniqueness of this on-the-ground action, the analysis is based on an extensive revision of public documents, legislation, media accounts and interviews conducted by the author with the key policy makers and officials dealing with crimes including drug-trafficking, money laundering and human smuggling. Government and Governance of Security will be of interest to scholars of Latin American studies, security and governance and development.

Author : J. Briquet,G. Favarel-Garrigues
Publisher : Springer
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230110038

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Organized Crime and States by J. Briquet,G. Favarel-Garrigues Pdf

In contrast to a globalizing approach to 'transnational organized crime,' this edited volume studies socio-historical environments in which mafia-esque violence has found a fertile ground for growth and development within the political arena.

Author : James Cockayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190694814

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Hidden Power by James Cockayne Pdf

What should we make of the outsized role organized crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the convergence of politics and crime in so-called 'mafia states' such as Guinea-Bissau, North Korea or, as some argue, Russia? Drawing on unpublished government documents and mafia memoirs, James Cockayne discovers the strategic logic of organized crime, hidden in a century of forgotten political--criminal collaboration in New York, Sicily and the Caribbean. He reveals states and mafias competing - and collaborating -- in a competition for governmental power. He discovers mafias influencing elections, changing constitutions, organizing domestic insurgencies and transnational terrorism, negotiating peace deals, and forming governmental joint ventures with ruling groups. And he sees mafias working with the US government to spy on American citizens, catch Nazis, try to assassinate Fidel Castro, invade and govern Sicily, and playing unappreciated roles in the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Author : Felia Allum,Stan Gilmour
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781786434579

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Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics by Felia Allum,Stan Gilmour Pdf

This multidisciplinary Handbook examines the interactions that develop between organised crime groups and politics across the globe. This exciting original collection highlights the difficulties involved in researching such relationships and shines a new light on how they evolve to become pervasive and destructive. This new Handbook brings together a unique group of international academics from sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, European and international studies.

Author : John A. Gardiner
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1970-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610446297

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The Politics of Corruption by John A. Gardiner Pdf

Discusses actual corrupt practices in one small city, showing both the mechanisms of corruption and the fundamental questions they raise, the answers to which will apply in many cities. He describes the background and conditions that made it possible for a local syndicate to take over an Eastern industrial center, "Wincanton." He discusses the many factors which permitted the take-over, stressing the citizens' lack of concern about links between petty gambling and the undermining of their local government.

Author : Roy Godson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351505772

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Menace to Society by Roy Godson Pdf

One of the more dangerous contemporary threats to the quality of life is the collaboration of the political establishment with the criminal underworld - the political-criminal nexus (PCN). This active partnership increasingly undermines the rule of law, human rights, and economic development in many parts of the world. States in transition are especially at risk. Despite the magnitude of the threat, there is little understanding of the security threats by the PCNs and how and why political-criminal relationships are formed and maintained. Menace to Society is the first attempt to develop an analytical framework for making generalizations about this contemporary scourge. Case studies of Colombia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia and Ukraine, and the United States by leading scholars and practitioners included here answer such key questions as: How do PCNs get established? How is a PCN maintained, and destroyed? What do the participants want from each other in a PCN? What can be learned from those who have successfully countered the PCN? The findings indicate that political, economic, and cultural factors play a significant role in the formation and evolution of PCNs. When the institutions of the state are weak, as in Nigeria and Colombia, it is difficult for the state to prevent political-criminal collaboration. A lack of checks and balances, either from civil society or opposition political parties such as described in the cases of Mexico and Russia, is a key factor. Cultural patterns tend to facilitate this kind of collaboration. Markets and economics, too, bear on the PCN issue. The supply and demand for illegal goods and services, not only drugs, in many countries creates a market controlled by criminals who need political help to "run" their business. Menance to Society will be critical reading for security planners, foreign and military policymakers, and political scientists.

Author : Felia Allum,Renate Siebert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134201501

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Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy by Felia Allum,Renate Siebert Pdf

This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from the United States, Japan, Russia, South America, France, Italy and the European Union.

Author : K. Hirschfeld
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137490284

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Gangster States by K. Hirschfeld Pdf

The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development of racketeer economies into unstable kleptocratic states. The result is a new model that explains the expansion and contraction of political-economic complexity in prehistoric and contemporary societies.

Author : A. Kupatadze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230361393

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Organized Crime, Political Transitions and State Formation in Post-Soviet Eurasia by A. Kupatadze Pdf

Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, this book situates organized crime in the debate on state formation and examines the diverging patterns in organized crime following the aftermath of these countries' Coloured Revolutions.

Author : Anthony Harriott
Publisher : Canoe Press (IL)
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015078805895

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Organized Crime and Politics in Jamaica by Anthony Harriott Pdf

The relationship between politics and crime has stimulated the curiosities of criminologists who understand crime and political scientists who understand the nature of the political system. In this volume, an attempt is made to bridge both lines of inquiry. The nexus between politics and crime is explored by analysing the rise of organized crime in Jamaica. This book represents a dedicated attempt to treat in particular a most troubling and current expression of this nexus between politics and crime, that is, organized crime. It describes the rise of organized crime in Jamaica, its internationalization and efforts to consolidate its hold in the cities and towns of Jamaica. This development is accounted for in terms of its distinct structural roots and facilitators. The analysis is extended by further exploring two critical aspects of the problem: political corruption and party financing. The analysis of these two aspects captures the long, deep and troubling relationship between crime and politics. Discussions of crime in Jamaica are impatient of "solutions." An attempt is therefore made to press the discussion beyond an analysis of the problem, to approaches to solving it. Consequently, the book is structured such that following on from the discussion of each aspect of the problem there is a chapter that explores the broad approaches to problem solving. It is intended for a wide readership.

Author : Monique Mann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351657457

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Politicising and Policing Organised Crime by Monique Mann Pdf

The concept of ‘organised crime’ is constructed and mobilised by a milieu of complex factors and discourses including a politics of law and order, and international insecurity, combined with the vested interests and priorities of scholars, politicians, government officials, and policing authorities. This book challenges existing assumptions and accepted understandings of organised crime, and explores the ways in which it is amplified and reconstructed for political purposes. This book critiques how the constitution of the ‘organised crime problem’ in academic and political discourse provides the conditions necessary for the development of an extensive and international architecture of law, policing, surveillance and intelligence. It examines emerging challenges and future directions including the impact of technology on new problems, and for transnational policing, such as the ease with which the Internet enables crime to be committed across borders, and for electronic communications to be protected with strong encryption hampering interception. No other text presents an integrated and comprehensive study of both the politicisation and policing of organised crime, while questioning the outcomes for society at large. Drawing on international fieldwork and interviews with senior national and supranational policing personnel, this book compares and contrasts various narratives on organised crime. It will be of interest to students and researchers engaged in studies of criminology, criminal justice, organised crime, policing, and law.