ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the governmental technologies that have been brought to bear on the fluid, manifold and diverse range of activities that academic criminologists have long struggled to discipline under the heading of organized crime. It examines the micro-processes of institutional thinking about organized crime carried out by police 'intelligence analysts'. The chapter discusses the literature on governance. It also describes the 'mentalities' evident in the technologies of Canadian police intelligence systems and their knowledge products. The chapter considers the governance of public opinion regarding organized crime in Canada. It focuses on the media presentations of organized crime in Canada in the relevant period and the construction of public opinion via the technology of social surveys. The chapter also considers the way in which knowledge about the disparate phenomena that underwrites the concept of organized crime were expressed by elected politicians and thus affirmed as a governmental project.
