Handbook of organised crime and politics / edited by Felia Allum (Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath), and Stan Gilmour (Local Policing Area Commander, Thames Valley Police, Reading, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allum, Felia, 1971- editor.

Gilmour, Stan, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in political science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organized crime.

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (528 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.

Summary:

This multidisciplinary Handbook examines the complex and often hidden relationship between organised crime and politics across the globe, highlighting the difficulties involved in researching such relationships and offering new insights into how they evolve to become pervasive and destructive. Exploring the ever-evolving nature of this relationship, and the exchanges within it, in order to identify common features and key differences, engaging chapters raise provoking questions regarding the possibility of improving democracy, political systems, civil society and economic systems in order to counter the possible infiltration of these organisations, their associates and representatives. Students and scholars of public policy, politics, criminology and those focusing on organised crime more specifically will find this Handbook an original and engaging guide to the current state of play, whilst policy-makers, practitioners and NGOs will find the case studies set in national contexts eminently valuable.

Contents:

Contents: Preface / Giuseppe Borrelli

Introduction / Felia Allum, Stan Gilmour And Catherine Hemmings

Part I Europe

1. France: Criminal organisations, urban gangs and politics / Jean-Louis Briquet And Gilles Favarel-Garrigues

2. Sweden: Organised crime, politics and civil society / Carina Gunnarson And Amir Rostami

3. Germany: Ndrangheta, settlements and democracy / Nicolo Dalponte And Martina Bedetti

4. Italy: Politics, local government and mafias / Vittorio Mete

5. Western Balkans: Organised crime, political corruption and oligarchs / Jana Arsovska

6. Ukraine: Organised crime, shady politics and 'frozen' conflict / Yuliya Zabyelina And Anna Markovska

7. Bulgaria: Organised crime, privaye security and the state in post-1989 / Marina Tzvetkova

8. Post Soviet Eurasia: Variations, organised crime and political corruption / Alexander Kupatadze

9. Russia: A 'mafia state', politics and shifting power dynamics / Alessandra Orlova

Part II: The Americas

10. United States Of America I: Organised crime, public corruption and a downward trend / Joseph Wheatley

11. United States Of America II: Organised crime, political corruption and illicit enterprise / Dwight Smith Jr

12. Canada: Internal conspiracies: corruption, politics, and crime / Margaret Beare

13. Mexico: Politics, cartels and violence / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison

14. Brazil: Organised crime, corruption and urban violence / Sérgio Adorno And Camila Nunes Dias

15. Guatamela: Organised crime, fraud and politics / Diorella Islas

16. Colombia: Organised crime, politics and convenience / Annette Idler

Part III: Africa

17. Kenya: Organised crime, political linkages and violence / Stephen Musau

18. Sahel-Sahara Region: Organised crime, the Sahel-Sahara region and state (un)making / Francesco Strazzari And Giovanni Zanoletti

19. Sierra Leone: Organised crime, lack of state capture and success / Sasha Jesperson

20. South Africa: Origins of the 'mafia state': political transition, organised crime and the impact on democracy / Mark Shaw

21. Nigeria: Black gold, suits and brown envelopes / Sheelagh Brady

Part IV Eurasia

22. Australia: Organised crime, donations and political assassinations / David A. Bright And Carolien Van Ham

23. New Zealand: Patched gangs, police and political corruption / Jarrod Gilbert

24. India: Systemic criminality, work and the politics of labour / Andrew Sanchez

25. China: The 'red/black nexus', politics and organised crime / Daniel Silverstone, Alex Chung And Joe Whittle

26. Malaysia: Gangster boogie, bosses and politics / Sophie Lemiere

27. The Pacific: The dark side of economic globalisation, politics and organised crime / Grant W Walton And Sinclair Dinnen

Part IV: International organisations

28. The European Union: Organised crime policies, politics and the EU / Jelle Janssens And Anke De Vos

29. Financial action task force: Fighting transnational organised crime, money laundering and the limits of experimentalist governance / Ellen Gutterman and Ian Roberge

30. The United Nations: Organised crime on the agenda of the United Nations / Matti Joutsen

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781786434579 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.