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Organised Crime in Europe

Concepts, Patterns and Control Policies in the European Union and Beyond

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Cyrille Fijnaut

    1. Tilburg University, Netherlands

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  2. Letizia Paoli

    1. Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany

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  • Represents the first attempt to systematically compare organised crime concepts, as well as historical and contemporary patterns and control policies in thirteen European countries

Part of the book series: Studies of Organized Crime (SOOC, volume 4)

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. The History of Organised Crime

    1. Introduction to Part I: The History of the Concept

      • Cyrille Fijnaut, Letizia Paoli
      Pages 21-46

    2. The Mafia and the ‘Problem of the Mafia’: Organised Crime in Italy, 1820-1970

      • Gianluca Fulvetti
      Pages 47-75

    3. Multiple Underworlds in the Dutch Republic of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

      • Florike Egmond
      Pages 77-107

    4. ‘Many a Lord is Guilty, Indeed For Many a Poor Man's Dishonest Deed’: Gangs of Robbers in Early Mode

      • Katrin Lange
      Pages 109-149

    5. Banditry in Corsica: The Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries

      • Stephen Wilson
      Pages 151-180

    6. From Thievish Artel to Criminal Corporation: The History of Organised Crime in Russia

      • Yakov Gilinskiy, Yakov Kostjukovsky
      Pages 181-202

    7. Urban Knights and Rebels in the Ottoman Empire

      • Yücel Yesilgöz, Frank Bovenkerk
      Pages 203-224

    8. Comparative Synthesis of Part I

      • Cyrille Fijnaut, Letizia Paoli
      Pages 225-235

  3. The History of Organised Crime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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  4. Contemporary Patterns of Organised Crime

    1. Introduction to Part II: Sources and Literature

      • Cyrille Fijnaut, Letizia Paoli
      Pages 239-262

    2. Organised Crime in Italy: Mafia and Illegal Markets – Exception and Normality

      • Letizia Paoli
      Pages 263-302

    3. Crossing Borders: Organised Crime in the Netherlands

      • Edward Kleemans
      Pages 303-331

    4. Organised Crime in Germany: A Passe-Partout Definition Encompassing Different Phenomena

      • Jörg Kinzig, Anna Luczak
      Pages 333-356

    5. How Organised is Organised Crime in France?

      • Nacer Lalam
      Pages 357-385

    6. Spain: The Flourishing Illegal Drug Haven in Europe

      • Alejandra Gómez-Céspedes, Per Stangeland
      Pages 387-412

    7. The Nature and Representation of Organised Crime in the United Kingdom

      • Dick Hobbs
      Pages 413-434

    8. The Czech Republic: A Crossroads for Organised Crime

      • Miroslav Nožina
      Pages 435-465

    9. Organised Crime in Poland: Its Development from ‘Real Socialism’ to Present Times

      • Emil Plywaczewski
      Pages 467-498

    10. Illegal Markets and Organised Crime in Switzerland: A Critical Assessment

      • Claudio Besozzi
      Pages 499-535
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This volume represents the first attempt to systematically compare organised crime concepts, as well as historical and contemporary patterns and control policies in thirteen European countries. These include seven ‘old’ EU Member States (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom), two ‘new’ members (the Czech Republic and Poland), a candidate country (Turkey), and three non-EU countries (Albania, Russia and Switzerland). Based on a standardised research protocol, thirty-three experts from different legal and social disciplines provide insight through detailed country reports. On this basis, the editors compare organised crime patterns and policies in Europe and assess EU initiatives against organised crime.

Its informed analyses and unprejudiced assessments will make Organised Crime in Europe an indispensable resource for scholars, students, practitioners, and policy-makers interested in understanding the complex phenomenon of organised crime and its related control policies in Europe.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Tilburg University, Netherlands

    Cyrille Fijnaut

  • Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany

    Letizia Paoli

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