Organised Crime In Europe

by Fijnaut, Cyrille; Paoli, Letizia

• ISBN13: 9781402026157
• ISBN10: 1402026153
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Senior Research fellow, Department of Criminology, Max plank Institue for Foreign and International Criminal Law,Freiburg, Germany.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Letizia Paoli
Cyrille Fijnaut
General Introduction	1	(20)
Letizia Paoli
Cyrille Fijnaut
PART I: THE HISTORY OF ORGANISED CRIME
Introduction to Part I: The History of the Concept	21	(26)
Letizia Paoli
Cyrille Fijnaut
The Mafia and the `Problem of the Mafia': Organised Crime in Italy, 1820-1970	47	(30)
Gianluca Fulvetti
Multiple Underworlds in the Dutch Republic of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	77	(32)
Florike Egmond
`Many a Lord is Guilty, Indeed For Many a Poor Man's Dishonest Deed': Gangs of Robbers in Early Modern Germany	109	(42)
Katrin Lange
Banditry in Corsica: The Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries	151	(30)
Stephen Wilson
From Thievish Artel to Criminal Corporation: The History of Organised Crime in Russia	181	(22)
Yakov Gilinskiy
Yakov Kostjukovsky
Urban Knights and Rebels in the Ottoman Empire	203	(22)
Yucel Yesilgoz
Frank Bovenkerk
Comparative Synthesis of Part I	225	(38)
Cyrille Fijnaut
Letizia Paoli
PART II: CONTEMPORARY PATTERNS OF ORGANISED CRIME
Introduction to Part II: Sources and Literature	239	(24)
Cyrille Fijnaut
Letizia Paoli
Organised Crime in Italy: Mafia and Illegal Markets -- Exception and Normality	263	(40)
Letizia Paoli
Crossing Borders: Organised Crime in the Netherlands	303	(30)
Edward Kleemans
Organised Crime in Germany: A Passe-Partout Definition Encompassing Different Phenomena	333	(24)
Jorg Kinzig
Anna Luczak
How Organised is Organised Crime in France?	357	(30)
Nacer Lalam
Spain: The Flourishing Illegal Drug Haven in Europe	387	(26)
Alejandra Gomez-Cespedes
Per Stangeland
The Nature and Representation of Organised Crime in the United Kingdom	413	(22)
Dick Hobbs
The Czech Republic: A Crossroads for Organised Crime	435	(32)
Miroslav Nozina
Organised Crime in Poland: Its Development from `Real Socialism' to Present Times	467	(32)
Emil Plywaczewski
Illegal Markets and Organised Crime in Switzerland: A Critical Assessment	499	(38)
Claudio Besozzi
Organised Crime in Albania: The Ugly Side of Capitalism and Democracy	537	(26)
Vasilika Hysi
Contemporary Russian Organised Crime: Embedded in Russian Society	563	(22)
Louise Shelley
The Turkish Mafia and the State	585	(18)
Frank Bovenkerk
Yucel Yesilgoz
Comparative Synthesis of Part II	603	(38)
Letizia Paoli
Cyrille Fijnaut
PART III: ORGANISED CRIME CONTROL POLICIES
Introduction to Part III: The Initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe	625	(16)
Cyrille Fijnaut
Letizia Paoli
The Paradox of Effectiveness: Growth, Institutionalisation and Evaluation of Anti-Mafia Policies in Italy	641	(36)
Antonio La Spina
Organised Crime Policies in the Netherlands	677	(40)
Henk Van de Bunt
Organised Crime Policies in Germany	717	(46)
Michael Kilchling
The Control of Organised Crime in France: A Fuzzy Concept but a Handy Reference	763	(32)
Thierry Godefroy
Organised Crime Control Policies in Spain: A `Disorganised' Criminal Policy for `Organised' Crime	795	(28)
Jose Luis De la Cuesta
The Making of the United Kingdom's Organised Crime Control Policies	823	(30)
Michael Levi
Denmark on the Road to Organised Crime	853	(26)
Karin Cornils
Vagn Greve
Organised Crime Policies in the Czech Republic: A Hard Road from Under-Estimation to the European Standard	879	(20)
Miroslav Scheinost
The Development of Organised Crime Policies in Poland: From Socialist Regime to `Rechtsstaat'	899	(32)
Emil Plywaczewski
Wojciech Filipkowski
Organised Crime Policies in Switzerland: Opening the Way for a New Type of Criminal Legislation	931	(32)
Karl-Ludwig Kunz
Elias Hofstetter
Organized Crime Control in Albania: The Long and Difficult Path to Meet International Standards and Develop Effective Policies	963
Vasilika Hysi