Organized Crime
Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance
Format:Paperback
Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
Published:29th Sep '15
Should be back in stock very soon
2016 Outstanding Publication Award (The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime)
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.
" It is without question, the most comprehensive and robust treatment of organized crime research, theories and perspectives that has been published to date."
-- Frederick T. Martens
"This book makes an important contribution to the academic literature. It moves well beyond the usual examination of "mafia" groups that has dominated the organized crime literature for years."
-- Robert Lombardo
"(...) the reading is engaging, due to the concise expression and the short length of the chapters that permit the best absorption of elaborate concepts (...) although the topic itself is complex and eludes exhaustive presentation, von Lampe uses his extensive knowledge to present the pivotal developments in the field of organised crime (...)" -- Elena Sciandra
"This is a major contribution to the literature. I like it enormously, and although I do not use a single text I recommend to my transnational organized crime class that if they buy one book it should be ′Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, and extra-legal governance."
-- Phil Williams"Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, and extra-legal governance is by far the most comprehensive and thoughtful treatment of the subject matter I′ve ever come across and I don′t see this changing easily in the foreseeable future either."
-- Georgios Antonopoulos & Georgios Papanicolaou
ISBN: 9781452203508
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 860g
488 pages