For most Americans, The Godfather, The Sopranos, and the Cosa
Nostra exemplify organized crime. In Asia the term conjures up
images of Japanese yakuza and Chinese triads, in Italy the Cosa
Nostra and 'Ndrangheta, in Latin America Mexican narco-gangs and
Colombian drug cartels, in the Netherlands transnational drug and
human trafficking, and in Scandinavia outlaw motorcycle gangs. Some
but not all those organizations are "mafias" with centuries-long
histories, distinctive cultures, and complicated relationships with
local communities and governments. Others are new, large but
transitory and with no purpose other than maximizing profits from
illegal markets. Organized crime organizations have existed for
centuries. Serious scholarly, as opposed to journalistic or law
enforcement, efforts to understand them, however, date back only a
few decades. Authoritative overviews were, until very recently,
impossible. Rigorous, analytically acute, and methodologically
sophisticated literatures did not exist. They have begun to emerge.
They have developed in many countries, involve work in different
languages and disciplines, and deploy a wide range of methods.
Organizing Crime: Mafias, Markets, and Networks provides the most
exhaustive overview ever published of knowledge about organized
crime. It provides intensive accounts of American, Italian, and
Dutch developments, covers both national mafias and transnational
criminality, and delves in depth into gender, human capital, and
money laundering issues. The writers are based in seven countries.
To a person they are, or are among, the world's most distinguished
specialists in their subjects. At last, credible explanations and
testable hypotheses are available concerning when, why, and under
what circumstances mafias and other organized crime organizations
come into being, what makes them distinctive, what they do and with
what effects, and how to contain them.
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