This series offers a forum for international academic research advancing understandings of the nature of organised crime, its representations and the policies and practices surrounding it. It is the home for cross-cutting, empirically robust, theoretically ambitious studies as well as impactful academic-practitioner collaborations, drawing from a wide range of geographical, cultural, political and social contexts. We would be happy to consider single or multi-authored monographs or edited collections.
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By Arjan Blokland, Klaus Von Lampe, Sjoukje van Deuren
August 01, 2024
The title of this volume Outlaw Bikers as Organized Crime reluctantly combines two highly contested concepts into a statement that is perhaps disputed even more. Who and what do we refer to when we talk about ‘outlaw bikers’ and ‘outlaw biker clubs’? What is meant by ‘organized crime’? And, how – ...
By Jon Davies, Hanna Malik
April 30, 2024
Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes. The UK context arguably represents a classic ‘neoliberal’ system ...
By Emanuele Sclafani
March 19, 2024
This book explores the infiltration of Italian and Russian organised crime in the UK real estate market, assessing how vulnerable the UK is to these sorts of activities. It identifies the drivers behind the criminal choices and modus operandi of Italian and Russian organised crime groups, and the ...
By Avi Boukli
December 05, 2023
Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. Using this perspective, a number of scholars have sought to remove the constraining brackets surrounding criminological investigation in order to broaden its legitimate ...
By Anna Sergi, Alberto Vannucci
May 29, 2023
This book is the first to consider the intersection between mafia power and deviant masonic lodges within the political sphere of the contemporary Italian state. At its core, it offers an analysis of the shifting interactions across powerful actors and the ways in which they balance reciprocal ...
By Alessandro Moretti
February 10, 2023
This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK. Despite the recent interest in the topic of black-market ticket sales, media coverage and parliamentary interventions over the last ten years have revealed a widespread lack of knowledge with regard to the phenomenon ...
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By Yuliya Zabyelina, Kimberley L. Thachuk
September 02, 2022
This book contributes to the literature on organized crime by providing a detailed account of the various nuances of what happens when criminal organizations misuse or penetrate legitimate businesses. It advances the existing scholarship on attacks, infiltration, and capture of legal businesses by ...
By David Bright, Chad Whelan
June 30, 2022
Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective examines organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of networks. The book takes stock of the many ways in which network theories and concepts, including social network analysis, can apply to studying both organised ...
By Michele Riccardi
January 31, 2022
What are the criteria used by Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the European Union to blacklist jurisdictions at high-risk of money laundering? What are the countries at highest risk according to Panama Papers and FinCEN files? Where do criminals move their illicit money, according to judicial...