ABSTRACT
This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from the United States, Japan, Russia, South America, France, Italy and the European Union.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |21 pages
Organized crime
part |40 pages
Definitions and diatribes
chapter |13 pages
Transnational organized crime between myth and reality
The social construction of a threat
part |48 pages
The ‘weakest link'
part |43 pages
Civil society held to ransom
part |48 pages
Organized crime and politics