Full Description
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.
Organised into five distinct sections, key chapters focus on issues and case studies from across Europe, the Americas, Africa, Eurasia and international organisations in order to provide a new and systematic picture and analysis of what the relationship between criminal organisations and politics looks like in different national contexts. In so doing, it offers an insight into the ever-evolving nature of this relationship, and the exchanges within it, in order to identify common features and key differences. These in turn 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 focussing 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 context eminently valuable.
Contributors include: S. Adorno, F. Allum, J. Arsovska, M. Beare, M. Bedetti, G. Borrelli, S. Brady, D. Bright, J.-L. Briquet, A. Chung, N. Dalponte, A. De Vos, C.N. Dias, S. Dinnen, G. Favarel-Garrigues, J. Gilbert, S. Gilmour, C. Gunnarson, E. Gutterman, C. Hemmings, A. Idler, D. Islas, J. Janssens, S. Jeperson, M. Joutsen, A. Kupatadze, R. Le Cour Grandmaison, S. Lemière, A. Markovska, V. Mete, S. Musau, A. Orlova, I. Roberge, A. Rostami, D. Silverstone, M. Shaw, D. Smith Jr., F. Strazzari, M. Tzvetkova, C. van Ham, G. Walton, J. Wheatley, J. Whittle, Y. Zabyelina, G. Zanoletti
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
