Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise

Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise

Author: Carlo Morselli

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0802038115

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In Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise, Carlo Morselli examines how business-oriented criminals who have personal networks designed to promote high numbers of diverse contacts achieve and maintain competitive advantages in their earning activities and overall criminal careers.


Crime Opportunity Theories

Crime Opportunity Theories

Author: Mangai Natarajan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 1005

ISBN-13: 1351570692

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Opportunity theories of crime seek to explain the occurrence of crime rather than simply the existence of criminal dispositions. They emphasize the fundamental element in the criminal act of opportunity: how this arises, how it is perceived, evaluated and acted on by those with criminal dispositions. This volume brings together influential research articles on opportunity theories of crime by leading theorists such as Cohen and Felson on routine activity theory and Clarke and Cornish on the bounded rational choice perspective. The articles also include more recent theoretical developments and studies of situational crime prevention of specific twenty-first century crimes. These articles attest to the sheer volume as well to as the richness and the variety of work designed to reduce crime that has forever changed the face of criminology and criminal justice.


Crime and Networks

Crime and Networks

Author: Carlo Morselli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1134643322

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This innovative collection of original essays showcases the use of social networks in the analysis and understanding of various forms of crime. More than any other past research endeavor, the seventeen chapters in this book apply to criminology the many conceptual and methodological options from social network analysis. Crime and Networks is the only book of its kind that looks at the use of networks in understanding crime, and can be used for advanced undergraduate and beginner’s graduate level courses in criminal justice and criminology.


The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime

The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime

Author: Letizia Paoli

Publisher: Oxford Handbooks

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 019973044X

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This handbook explores organized crime, which it divides into two main concepts and types: the first is a set of stable organizations illegal per se or whose members systematically engage in crime, and the second is a set of serious criminal activities that are typically carried out for monetary gain.


Politicising and Policing Organised Crime

Politicising and Policing Organised Crime

Author: Monique Mann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1351657453

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The concept of ‘organised crime’ is constructed and mobilised by a milieu of complex factors and discourses including a politics of law and order, and international insecurity, combined with the vested interests and priorities of scholars, politicians, government officials, and policing authorities. This book challenges existing assumptions and accepted understandings of organised crime, and explores the ways in which it is amplified and reconstructed for political purposes. This book critiques how the constitution of the ‘organised crime problem’ in academic and political discourse provides the conditions necessary for the development of an extensive and international architecture of law, policing, surveillance and intelligence. It examines emerging challenges and future directions including the impact of technology on new problems, and for transnational policing, such as the ease with which the Internet enables crime to be committed across borders, and for electronic communications to be protected with strong encryption hampering interception. No other text presents an integrated and comprehensive study of both the politicisation and policing of organised crime, while questioning the outcomes for society at large. Drawing on international fieldwork and interviews with senior national and supranational policing personnel, this book compares and contrasts various narratives on organised crime. It will be of interest to students and researchers engaged in studies of criminology, criminal justice, organised crime, policing, and law.


Criminal Networks and Law Enforcement

Criminal Networks and Law Enforcement

Author: Saskia Hufnagel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 135117617X

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This collection presents an analysis of illicit networks and discusses implications for law enforcement and crime prevention. The contributors draw on a range of methodologies and apply them to diverse international criminological settings, from illegal fishing in the Indo-Pacific to ‘money mule’ networks in the Netherlands. Using a variety of examples, the book elucidates how and why criminals form networks of cooperation and how they can be disrupted. It is expected to be of interest to those who study criminology or criminal law, as well as law enforcement practitioners.


Organized Crime

Organized Crime

Author: Klaus von Lampe

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2015-07-16

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1483310833

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Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance provides a systematic overview of the processes and structures commonly labeled “organized crime,” drawing on the pertinent empirical and theoretical literature primarily from North America, Europe, and Australia. The main emphasis is placed on a comprehensive classificatory scheme that highlights underlying patterns and dynamics, rather than particular historical manifestations of organized crime. Esteemed author Klaus von Lampe strategically breaks the book down into three key dimensions: (1) illegal activities, (2) patterns of interpersonal relations that are directly or indirectly supporting these illegal activities, and (3) overarching illegal power structures that regulate and control these illegal activities and also extend their influence into the legal spheres of society. Within this framework, numerous case studies and topical issues from a variety of countries illustrate meaningful application of the conceptual and theoretical discussion.


The Crime that Pays

The Crime that Pays

Author: Frederick John Desroches

Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1551302314

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The Crime that Pays is a study of higher-level drug syndicates and organized criminals who have achived huge incomes and high status in their deviant occupations.


Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime

Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime

Author: Felia Allum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-08

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 1000484165

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This fully revised new edition provides a definitive and holistic overview of Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in a world in which right wing populism has gained ground, trade wars are increasing, climate change is a reality and Covid poses a challenge for years to come. Updated to reflect the changing world environment, the book includes new chapters on issues such as criminal network analysis, environmental crime, cybercrime, people smuggling, drugs activities in the modern world, the relationship between organized crime and corruption, anti-organized crime resilience and the effectiveness of the fight against organized crime. New country case studies have also been included. The handbook is presented in six sections: • Concepts, theories and laws • Origins and manifestations • Contagion and evolution • Intensity and impact • Governance • Reaction and future Truly interdisciplinary in nature, the handbook features contributions from an international team of experts, working in different academic disciplines and within varied law enforcement agencies. It will appeal to scholars, policymakers and practitioners in International Law, Global Governance, International Political Economy and Security Studies.