Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 467 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781506305134
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- 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 -- The Organization of Crime -- The Organization of Criminals -- The Exercise of Power by Criminals -- Myth and Reality: The Case of "Scarface" Al Capone -- Conceptual Confusion -- Organized Crime and the Social Construction of Reality -- Is a Definition of Organized Crime Needed to Study Organized Crime? -- 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 Origins of the Concept of Organized Crime -- The First Coinage of the Concept of Organized Crime in the United States -- The Merging of the Concepts of Organized Crime and Mafia -- Challenges to the Mafia Paradigm -- 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 -- Three Notions of the "Nature" of Organized Crime: Activity, Structure, Governance -- Accounting for the Diversity of Definitions of Organized Crime -- Outline of a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Organized Crime -- Basic Dimensions of Organized Crime -- Links Between Basic Dimensions -- The Concept of Organized Crime: Summary and Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Research Projects -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Organized Crime Research -- The Study of Organized Crime as an Academic Subdiscipline -- The History of the Study of Organized Crime -- The Pioneers: Frederic Thrasher and John Landesco -- The Journalistic Period -- Donald Cressey -- The Post-Cressey Era -- The Main Lines of Contemporary Research -- Illegal Enterprises and Illegal Markets.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-451) and index
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781452203508
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lampe, Klaus von, 1961 - Organized crime Los Angeles : SAGE, 2016 ISBN 9781452203508
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
Organisiertes Verbrechen
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Bekämpfung
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Strafverfolgung
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Internationale Kooperation
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5603497
Author information:
Lampe, Klaus von 1961-
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