1st Edition
Corruption and Organized Crime in Europe Illegal partnerships
Part I. 1. Introduction: The Organisation of Crime by Vincenzo Ruggiero 2. Corruption and the Disappearance of the Victim by Vincenzo Ruggiero and Philip Gounev 3. Organised Crime, Corruption and Public Bodies by Tihomir Bezlov and Philip Gounev 4. Organised Crime, Corruption and the Private Sector by Philip Gounev 5. Corruption and Criminal Markets by Philip Gounev and Tihomir Bezlov Part II: Case Studies 6. Bulgaria: Corruption and Organised Crime in Flux by Tihomir Bezlov and Philip Gounev 7. France: from Local Elites to Presidents by Nacer Lalam 8. Greece: The Politics of Crime by Georgios A. Antonopoulos and Nikolai Tagarov 9. Italy: Who Corrupts Whom? by Vincenzo Ruggiero 10. Russia: Corruption, Organised Crime and the Free Market by Paddy Rawlinson 11. Spain: A Criminal Hub by Alejandra Gómez-Céspedes 12. Corruption and Organised Crime in the UK by Sappho Xenakis. Bibliography.
Biography
Philip Gounev is Senior Analyst and expert on crime and corruption at the Center for the Study of Democracy in Bulgaria. Dr Gounev leads Bulgaria’s annual National Crime Survey. He has managed a number of EU-wide and national studies and projects on organised-crime and corruption. Dr Gounev holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.
Vincenzo Ruggiero is Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University in London. He has conducted research on behalf of many national and international bodies, including the Home Office, the ESRC, the European Commission and the United Nations. He has published extensively in a variety of criminological and sociological areas, and his previous books include: Organised and Corporate Crime in Europe (1996); The New European Criminology (1998, co-edited); Crime and Markets (2000); Economic and Financial Crime (2002, co-edited); Crime in Literature (2003); Understanding Political Violence (2006); Social Movements: A Reader (2008, co-edited) and Penal Abolitionism (2010).
