Format:
Online-Ressource (508 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780739113585
Series Statement:
Critical Perspectives on Crime and Inequality
Content:
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 org
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Description based upon print version of record
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Critical Perspectives on Crime and Inequality; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1; Foreword; Introduction; The Evolution of a Project; A Brief Introduction to Organized Crime Theory; Organized Crime as a Complex Phenomenon and Consequences for Research; Description of Chapters; Endnotes; Chapter 2; A Neo-Marxist Interpretation of Organized Crime; Introduction; Organized Crime, Elites, and Reactionary Regimes; Introducing Adorno, Horkheimer, and Gramsci; Protection as Repression; The Protection Racket State
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Marx and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis BonaparteOrganized Crime as Repression; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 3; Historical Observations on 'Clear[ly] and Present[ly] Danger'[ous] Plant Life; Introduction; Coca, Incas, and Conquistadors; From Coca to Cocaine; Opium and 'Foreign Devils'; The Narcotization of Chinese Society (and some of its Consequences); Taxes, Opium, and the Colonized (Part I); International Drug Control, Narcotics, and Pharmaceutical Companies; Taxes, Opium, and the Colonized (Part II); Drugs and Criminals; Cold War Drug Trafficking and Drug Control; Conclusion; Endnotes
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Chapter 4A Tale of Two Coups: Shanghai 1927 and La Paz 1980; Introduction; The Origins of Chinese Organized Crime: A Brief Introduction to Chinese Secret Societies; The Roots of the Bolivian Cocaine Economy (I) The Bolivian Revolution; The Roots of the Bolivian Cocaine Economy (II) The Banzerato; Elites and the Left in Republican China; The Shanghai Coup and the Guomindang Dictatorship; Cocaine and Elites in Bolivia; The Military, Organized Crime, and the Cocaine Coup in Bolivia; Organized Crime Groups in Power in Nationalist China and Bolivia: a Comparison
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Drugs and Regime Finances in Nationalist China and BoliviaConclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 5; Elites, Cocaine, and Power in Colombia and Peru; Introduction; Notes on Narcodollars; A Short History of Political Violence in Colombia; The Period of Violence; Dimensions and Problems of Protection-Racket Maintenance in Colombia; The Revolutionary Left in Colombia; The Military, Elites, and Political Power in Peru; Revolutionary Movements in Peru in the 1990s; The Peruvian Military, Organized Crime, and the War Against Sendero Luminoso
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Observations on Narcoguerrilla, Narcoterrorism, Narcofascism, and NarcobourgeoisieConclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 6; Beyond Modern Capitalism: Soviet and Post-Soviet Organized Crime; Introduction; Organized Crime in the Russian Federation and the 'Near Abroad' after 1991; The Success and Failure of Soviet Economic Development; The Soviet Protection Racket and the Period of Stagnation; The Shadow Economy; The Emergence of Soviet Organized Crime; From Soviet to Post-Soviet Organized Crime; Post-Soviet Organized Crime and Power after 1991; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 7
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Beyond Modern Capitalism: Mercantile Piracy
Additional Edition:
9780739159248
Additional Edition:
Print version The Politics of Organized Crime and the Organized Crime of Politics : A Study in Criminal Power
Language:
English
Keywords:
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