This multidisciplinary Handbook examines the complex and often
hidden relationship between organised crime and politics across the
globe, highlighting the difficulties involved in researching such
relationships and offering new insights into how they evolve to
become pervasive and destructive. Organised into five distinct
sections, key chapters focus on issues and case studies from across
Europe, the Americas, Africa, Eurasia and international
organisations in order to provide a new and systematic picture and
analysis of what the relationship between criminal organisations
and politics looks like in different national contexts. In so
doing, it offers an insight into the ever-evolving nature of this
relationship, and the exchanges within it, in order to identify
common features and key differences. These in turn raise provoking
questions regarding the possibility of improving democracy,
political systems, civil society and economic systems in order to
counter the possible infiltration of these organisations, their
associates and representatives. Students and scholars of public
policy, politics, criminology and those focussing on organised
crime more specifically will find this Handbook an original and
engaging guide to the current state of play, whilst policy makers,
practitioners and NGOs will find the case studies set in national
context eminently valuable. Contributors include: S. Adorno, F.
Allum, J. Arsovska, M. Beare, M. Bedetti, G. Borrelli, S. Brady, D.
Bright, J.-L. Briquet, A. Chung, N. Dalponte, A. De Vos, C.N. Dias,
S. Dinnen, G. Favarel-Garrigues, J. Gilbert, S. Gilmour, C.
Gunnarson, E. Gutterman, C. Hemmings, A. Idler, D. Islas, J.
Janssens, S. Jeperson, M. Joutsen, A. Kupatadze, R. Le Cour
Grandmaison, S. Lemiere, A. Markovska, V. Mete, S. Musau, A.
Orlova, I. Roberge, A. Rostami, D. Silverstone, M. Shaw, D. Smith
Jr., F. Strazzari, M. Tzvetkova, C. van Ham, G. Walton, J.
Wheatley, J. Whittle, Y. Zabyelina, G. Zanoletti
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