Reorganizing crime : Mafia and anti-Mafia in post-Soviet Georgia / Gavin Slade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slade, Gavin, 1980- author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology.

Clarendon studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organized crime--Georgia (Republic).

Organized crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through an innovative and engaging analysis of an often misunderstood cohort of organised crime in Georgia, this book explores the resilience of so-called dark networks, such as organised crime groups and terrorist cells, and tests the theories of how and why success in challenging such organisations can occur.

Contents:

General Editor's Introduction 1. Georgia in 'the Understandings' 2. Resilience and the Decline of Mafias 3. Thieves-in-Law as a Soviet and Post-Soviet Mafia in Georgia 4. Predator vs. Predator: the State and Mafia Before and After the Rose Revolution 5. Organizing and Re-Organizing Crime in Georgia 6. Fitting the Frame: Prison and Recruitment 7. 'With My Body and Soul': Commitment and Exit Costs 8. Maintaining Distinction: Social Attitudes to the Criminal Nobility 9. Georgia Outside 'the Understandings'? Footnotes

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-166217-8

0-19-166216-X

0-19-177286-0

OCLC:

958583280