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Reorganizing Crime - Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia (Hardcover, New)
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Reorganizing Crime - Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia (Hardcover, New)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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Arising from Soviet prison camps in the 1930s, career criminals
known as 'thieves-in-law' exist in one form or another throughout
post-Soviet countries and have evolved into major transnational
organized criminal networks since the dissolution of the USSR.
Intriguingly, this criminal fraternity established a particular
stronghold in the republic of Georgia where, by the 1990s, they had
formed a mafia network of criminal associations that attempted to
monopolize protection in both legal and illegal sectors of the
economy. This saturation was to such an extent that thieves-in-law
appeared to offer an alternative, and just as powerful, system of
governance to the state. Following peaceful regime change with
2003's Rose Revolution, Georgia prioritised reform of the criminal
justice system generally, and an attack on the thieves-in-law
specifically, using anti-organized crime policies that emulated
approaches in Italy and America. Criminalization of association
with thieves-in-law, radical reforms of the police and prisons,
educational change, and controversial, draconian and extra-legal
measures, amounted to arguably the most sustained anti-mafia policy
implemented in any post-Soviet country - a policy the government
believed would pull Georgia out of the Soviet past, declaring it a
resounding success. Utilising unique access to primary sources of
data, including police files, court cases, archives and expert
interviews, Reorganizing Crime: Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet
Georgia charts both the longevity and decline of the
thieves-in-law, exploring the changes in the levels of resilience
of members carrying this elite criminal status, and how this
resilience has faded since 2005. Through an innovative and engaging
analysis of this often misunderstood cohort of organized crime,
this book engages with contemporary debates on the resilience of
so-called dark networks, such as organized crime groups and
terrorist cells, and tests theories of how and why success in
challenging such organizations can occur.
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