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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF O R G A N I Z E D C R I M E THE OXFORD HANDBOOKS IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE General Editor: Michael Tonry THE OXFORD HANDBOOKS IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE offer authoritative, comprehensive, and critical overviews of the state of the art of criminology and criminal justice. Each volume focuses on a major area of each discipline, is edited by a dis- tinguished group of specialists, and contains specially commissioned, original essays from leading international scholars in their respective fields. Guided by the general editorship of Michael Tonry, the series will provide an invaluable reference for scholars, students, and policy makers seeking to understand a wide range of research and policies in criminology and criminal justice. OTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES: GENDER, SEX, AND CRIME Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy POLICE AND POLICING Michael D. Reisig and Robert J. Kane ETHNICITY, CRIME, AND IMMIGRATION Sandra Bucerius and Michael Tonry CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox JUVENILE CRIME AND JUVENILE JUSTICE Barry C. Feld and Donna M. Bishop CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Michael Tonry CRIME PREVENTION Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS Joan Petersilia and Kevin R. Reitz CRIME AND PUBLIC POLICY Michael Tonry THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ORGANIZED CRIME Edited by LETIZIA PAOLI 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Oxford handbook of organized crime / edited by Letizia Paoli. pages cm. — (The Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–973044–5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Organized crime. 2. Criminology. I. Paoli, Letizia. HV6441.O94 2014 364.106—dc23 2013020568 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents List of Contributors ix Introduction 1 Letizia Paoli PART I CONCEPT, THEORIES, HISTORY, AND RESEARCH METHODS 1. Organized Crime: A Contested Concept 13 Letizia Paoli and Tom Vander Beken 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Organized Crime 32 Edward R. Kleemans 3. Searching for Organized Crime in History 53 Cyrille Fijnaut 4. How to Research Organized Crime 96 Dick Hobbs and Georgios A. Antonopoulos PART II ACTORS AND INTERACTIONS 5. The Italian Mafia 121 Letizia Paoli 6. The Italian-American Mafia 142 Jay S. Albanese 7. The Russian Mafia: Rise and Extinction 159 Vadim Volkov vi CONTENTS 8. Organized Crime in Colombia: The Actors Running the Illegal Drug Industry 177 Francisco E. Thoumi 9. Mexican Drug “Cartels” 196 Monica Medel and Francisco E. Thoumi 10. Chinese Organized Crime 219 Ko-Lin Chin 11. The Japanese Yakuza 234 Peter Hill 12. Nigerian Criminal Organizations 254 Phil Williams 13. Gangs: Another Form of Organized Crime? 270 Scott H. Decker and David C. Pyrooz 14. Opportunistic Structures of Organized Crime 288 Martin Bouchard and Carlo Morselli 15. Organizing Crime: The State as Agent 303 Susanne Karstedt 16. The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime 321 Henk van de Bunt, Dina Siegel, and Damián Zaitch PART III MARKETS AND ACTIVITIES 17. Protection and Extortion 343 Federico Varese 18. Drug Markets and Organized Crime 359 Peter Reuter 19. Human Smuggling, Human Trafficking, and Exploitation in the Sex Industry 381 Edward R. Kleemans and Monika Smit 20. Illegal Gambling 402 Toine Spapens CONTENTS vii 21. Money Laundering 419 Michael Levi 22. Arms Trafficking 444 Andrew Feinstein and Paul Holden 23. Organized Fraud 460 Michael Levi 24. Cybercrime 482 Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Peter Grabosky 25. The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources 500 Tim Boekhout van Solinge PART IV POLICIES TO CONTROL ORGANIZED CRIME 26. Organized Crime Control in the United States of America 529 James B. Jacobs and Elizabeth Dondlinger Wyman 27. U.S. Organized Crime Control Policies Exported Abroad 545 Margaret Beare and Michael Woodiwiss 28. European Union Organized Crime Control Policies 572 Cyrille Fijnaut 29. The Fight against the Italian Mafia 593 Antonio La Spina 30. Organized Crime Control in Australia and New Zealand 612 Julie Ayling and Roderic Broadhurst 31. Organized Crime “Control” in Asia: Experiences from India, China, and the Golden Triangle 634 Roderic Broadhurst and Nicholas Farrelly 32. Finance-Oriented Strategies of Organized Crime Control 655 Michael Kilchling Index 675 List of Contributors Jay S. Albanese is professor in the Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, US. Georgios A. Antonopoulos is professor of criminology in the School of Social Sciences and Law at Teesside University, UK. Julie Ayling is a research fellow in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University. Margaret Beare is professor in the Osgoode Hall Law School and former director of the Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption at York University, Canada. Tim Boekhout van Solinge is assistant professor of criminology at Utrecht University and coordinator of the Criminology Course of the Dutch Study Centre of the Public Ministry. Martin Bouchard is associate professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Roderic Broadhurst is professor of criminology in the Australian National University’s College of Arts and Social Sciences. Ko-Lin Chin is a distinguished professor at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, US. Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo is senior lecturer in the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences at the University of South Australia. Scott H. Decker is foundation professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, US. Elizabeth Dondlinger Wyman received her J.D. from New York University Law School in 2010. Nicholas Farrelly is a research fellow at the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies at Australian National University. Andrew Feinstein was an ANC member of parliament in South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 and is now a co-director of the organization Corruption Watch, UK. Cyrille Fijnaut is professor emeritus of international and comparative criminal law at the Law School of Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
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