Organized Crime, (4 Volume Set)

The systematic study of organized crime dates back to John Landesco’s classic of ethnography, Organized Crime in Chicago (1929). Since then, the field has grown considerably and, as well as criminologists and sociologists, the topic has been embraced by researchers from a broad range of disciplines, including political science, anthropology, economics, as well as literary and film studies.

While at first attention was principally devoted to the study of ‘traditional’ organized-crime groups, such as the Sicilian and the American mafias, since the 1980s, serious scholarly work has also emerged on, for example, the Russian mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, and the Triads in both Hong Kong, China, and the USA. Furthermore, researchers have recognized that the behaviour and structure of ‘traditional’ organized-crime groups, and their role in both legal and illegal markets, can be fruitfully compared and contrasted to new forms of organized crime in places as varied as Africa, Columbia, Northern Ireland, and Asia. The study of organized crime has also attracted researchers interested in popular representations of the phenomenon, mainly in films and novels. Furthermore, after the events of 11 September 2001, the intersection between organized crime and terrorism, and the ability of organized-crime groups to operate transnationally and expand to new territories, has gained a new significance.

As research on organized crime continues to flourish, this new title in the Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Criminology series, addresses the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of interdisciplinary scholarly literature. Organized Crime is a four-volume collection of the foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship. It is also fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. An indispensable reference collection, it is destined to be valued by scholars and students of the subject as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

Volume I : Definitions and Theories

Chapter 1 : Rinconete and Cortadillo’, Exemplary Stories
Chapter 2 : On Defining "Organized Crime" : The Development of a Definition and a Typology’, Crime and Delinquency, 1976
Chapter 3 : The Organized Crime Continuum : A FurTher Specification of a New Conceptual Model’, Criminal Justice Review, 1983
Chapter 4 : The Russian Mafia
Chapter 5 : The Paradoxes of Organized Crime’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 2002
Chapter 6 : Crime as an American Way of Life’, Antioch Review, 1953
Chapter 7 : Individual Choice Material Culture and Organized Crime’, Criminology, 1981
Chapter 8 : Paragons, Pariahs, and Pirates : A Spectrum-Based Theory of Enterprise’, Crime & Delinquency, 1980
Chapter 9 : Illegal Enterprise : A Theoretical and Historical Interpretation’, Criminology, 1990
Chapter 10 : The Firm : Organised Crime on A Shifting Terrain’, British Journal of Criminology, 2001
Chapter 11 : Economics and Criminal Enterprise’, The Public Interest, 1967
Chapter 12 : What is The Business of Organized Crime?’, Journal of Public Law, 1971
Chapter 13 : A Defense of Organized Crime?, The Economics of Crime and Punishment
Chapter 14 : The Economic Theory of The Criminal Firm, The Economics of Crime and Punishment
Chapter 15 : Economic Consequences of Organized Violence’, Journal of Economic History, 1958
Chapter 16 : Anarchy, State and Utopia
Chapter 17 : War Making and State Making as Organized Crime, Bringing The State Back In
Chapter 18 : Fragments of an Economic Theory of The Mafia’, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 1988
Chapter 19 : The Political Economy of Organized Crime : Providing Protection When The State Does Not’, Economics of Governance, 2001
Chapter 20 : Methodological Problems in The Study of Organized Crime as a Social Problem’, Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1967
Chapter 21 : The Application of Network Analysis to Criminal Intelligence : An Assessment of The Prospects’, Social Networks, 1991

Volume II : Origins, Resources, Organization

Chapter 22 : Private States and The Enforcement of Property Rights : Theory and Evidence on The Origins of The Sicilian Mafia’, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2003
Chapter 23 : Is Sicily The Future of Russia? Private Protection and The Rise of The Russian Mafia’, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 1994
Chapter 24 : The Yakuza Japanese Crime Incorporated
Chapter 25 : The Dark Side of Private Ordering : An Institutional and Empirical Analysis of Organized Crime’, University of Chicago Law Review, 2000
Chapter 26 : The Notorious Purple Gang : Detroit’s All Jewish Prohibition Era Mob’, Shofar : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2001
Chapter 27 : Organized Crime in Urban Society : Chicago in The 20th Century’, Journal of Social History, 1971
Chapter 28 : The Triads as Business
Chapter 29 : Men of Honour
Chapter 30 : Federico Varese, The Russian Mafia
Chapter 31 : The Man on The Pink Corner’, Collected Fictions
Chapter 32 : Wise Guy : Life in a Mafia Family
Chapter 33 : The Sicilian Mafia
Chapter 34 : Gender Norms in The Sicilian Mafia, 1945–86, Gender and Crime in Modern Europe
Chapter 35 : The Business of Organised Crime : A Cosa Nostra Family
Chapter 36 : Career Opportunities and Network-Based Privileges in The Cosa Nostra’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 2003
Chapter 37 : The Triads as Business
Chapter 38 : The Russian Mafia
Chapter 39 : The Yakuza Japanese Crime Incorporated
Chapter 40 : The Japanese Mafia

Volume III : Organized Crime and The Penetration of Markets

Chapter 41 : The Sicilian Mafia
Chapter 42 : Organized Crime in Chicago
Chapter 43 : The Business of Organised Crime
Chapter 44 : Labor Racketeering : The Mafia and The Unions’, Crime and Justice : An Annual Review of Research, 2003
Chapter 45 : The Rational Racketeer : Pasta Protection in Depression Era Chicago’, Journal of Law and Economics, 1997
Chapter 46 : Racketeers as Cartel Organizers, Political and Economic Perspectives on Organized Crime
Chapter 47 : The Origins of Fuel Racketeering : The Americans and The "Russians" in New York, Russian Organised Crime : The New Threat?
Chapter 48 : The Triads as Business
Chapter 49 : Private Protection in Russia and Poland’, AJPS, June 2002
Chapter 50 : Casino Politics, Organized Crime and The Post-Colonial State in Macau’, Journal of Contemporary China, 2005
Chapter 51 : The Ethnic Vice Industry, 1880–1944’, American Sociological Review, 1977
Chapter 52 : An Economic Analysis Of A Drug-Selling Gang’s Finances’, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000
Chapter 53 : Number Gambling : Black and White Control of Numbers Gambling : A Cultural Asset–Social Capital View’, American Sociological Review, 2006
Chapter 54 : Out of Africa : The Human Trade Between Libya and Lampedusa’, Trends in Organized Crime, 2007

Volume IV : Organized Crime and Popular Culture, States and Terrorism

Chapter 55 : Inventing The Public Enemy : The Gangster in American Culture, 1918–1934
Chapter 56 : The Secret History of Japanese Cinema : The Yakuza Movies’, Global Crime, 2006
Chapter 57 : Mobster Gravestones in 1990s Russia’, Global Crime, 2006
Chapter 58 : The Allies and The Mafia’, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 1997
Chapter 59 : Organized Crime in Chicago
Chapter 60 : A Modern Marriage of Convenience : A Collaboration Between Organized Crime and US Intelligence, Organized Crime : A Global Perspective
Chapter 61 : Organized Crime and The Political-Criminal Nexus in China’, Trends in Organized Crime, 2006
Chapter 62 : Law-Enforcement Disruption of a Drug Importation Network’, Global Crime, 2007
Chapter 63 : NYC as an Organized Crime Fighter : The Work of The Trade Waste Commission’, New York Law School Law Review, 1998
Chapter 64 : Scrutinizing RICO’, Critical Criminology, 2004
Chapter 65 : Heisei Yakuza’, Social Science Japan Journal, 2003
Chapter 66 : The Mafia and Al Qaeda : Violent and Secretive Organizations in Comparative and Historical Perspective’, American Anthropologist, 2002
Chapter 67 : The Crime Terror Continuum : Tracing The Interplay Between Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism’, Global Crime, 2004
Chapter 68 : How Mafias Migrate : The Case of The `Ndrangheta in NorThern Italy’, Law and Society Review, 2006
Chapter 69 : ‘Hong Kong Triads after 1997’, Trends in Organized Crime, 2005
Chapter 70 : The Search for The Russian Mafia : Central and Eastern European Criminals in The NeTherlands, 1989–2005’, Trends in Organized Crime, 2007
Chapter 71 : The Decline of The American Mafia’, The Public Interest, 1995
Chapter 72 : The Declining Significance of Triad Societies in Transnational Illegal Activities : A Structural Deficiency Perspective’, British Journal of Criminology, 2003