The Organized Crime Community: Essays in Honor of Alan A. Block

240 Pages·2007·2.31 MB·English

by  Alan A. Block (auth.)

S T U D I E S O F O R G A N I Z E D C R I M E
The Organized
Crime Community
Essays in Honor of Alan A. Block
Edited by
Frank Bovenkerk and Michael Levi
The Organized Crime Community
STUDIES IN ORGANIZED CRIME
Volume 6
Series Editor:
Frank Bovenkerk,University of Utrecht,Willem Pompe Institute,The Netherlands
Editorial Board:
Maria Los,University of Ottowa,Canada
Letizia Paoli,Max Plank Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law,
Freiburg,Germany
Francisco Thoumi,Independent Researcher,Doral Florida,U.S.A.
Xiabo Lu,Weatherhead East Asian Institute,Columbia University,NY,U.S.A.
The Organized Crime Community
Essays in Honor of Alan A. Block
Edited by
Frank Bovenkerk
Professor of Criminology
University of Utrecht
Utrecht,The Netherlands
and
Michael Levi
Professor of Criminology
Cardiff University
Cardiff,The United Kingdom
Editors:
Frank Bovenkerk Michael Levi
Willem Pompe Institute School of Social Sciences
16 Janskerkhof King Edward VII Ave.,Glamorgan Building
University of Utrecht Cardiff University
Utrecht,The Netherlands 3512 BM Cardiff,The United Kingdom CF10 3WT
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Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction xi
Michael Levi and Frank Bovenkerk
1. The Origins of IRAN-CONTRA:Lessons from the Durrani Affair 1
Alan A. Block
2. California Dreams and Gangster Schemes:The Standley Commission,
the Guarantee Finance Company,and the Social System of Organized
Crimein post-World War II Southern California 31
Jeffrey Scott McIllwain and Clinton Leisz
3. New Times,New Crimes:“Blocking”Financial Identity Fraud 45
Henry N. Pontell and Gilbert Geis
4. The United Nations Oil-for-Food Program:Corruption,Bribery
and International Relations in the Serious Crime Community 59
Don Liddick
5. Bystander Memories Explored:Dutch Gentile Eyewitness Narratives
on the Deportation of the Jews 69
Dienke Hondius
6. Mid East Meets Mid West? Theopolitics,Crime and Terror in the U.S. 85
R.T. Naylor
7. Assessing Organised Crime:The Sad State of an Impossible Art 101
Petrus C. van Duyne and Maarten van Dijck
8. The Rise of Two Drug Tigers:The Development of the Illegal Drugs
Industry and Drug Policy Failure in Afghanistan and Colombia 125
Francisco E. Thoumi
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9. Half-baked Legalization Won’t Work 149
Frank Bovenkerk
10. Pecunia Non Olet? The Control of Money-laundering Revisited 161
Michael Levi
11. Any Man’s Death.... Some Reflections on the Significance
of International Criminal Justice 183
Chrisje Brants
12. Vita 209
Alan A. Block
Index 221
Contributors
Frank Bovenkerk is cultural anthropologist and professor of criminology at the
Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of
Utrecht in The Netherlands. His main fields of research are organized crime,
discrimination and crime and ethnicity. He published on the Turkish Mafia in 1998
(together with Yücel Yesilgöz) and on the personality traits of organized crime bosses
in 2000. His current interest is moving toward the field of cultural criminology.
Chrisje Brants,originally a journalist,is a lawyer and a criminologist,and professor
of criminal law and criminal procedure at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal
law and Criminology,University of Utrecht,The Netherlands,where she is head of
department. Her main fields of research are comparative (international) criminal law
and criminology, and crime, law and the media. Her most recent publication in
English: “Gold collar crime The peculiar complexities and ambiguities of war
crimes,crimes against humanity and genocide”in:The International Handbook of
White-Collar and Corporate Crime,with Gilbert Geis (Springer,2006).
Maarten van Dijckis senior researcher at the University of Tilburg. He obtained
his doctorate with a thesis on tolleration in the Dutch legal system. He is in charge
of the EU project Assessing Organised Crime in Europe.
Petrus C. van Duyneis professor of empirical penal science at the University of
Tilburg. He is psychologist and jurist and has carried out research on fraud,eco-
nomic and organised crime, including money-laundering and corruption. He
coordinates the Colloquia on Cross-border Crime in Europe and is the coordina-
tor of the EU-project Assessing Organised Crime in Europe.
Gilbert Geis is professor emeritus, Department of Criminology, Law and Soci-
ety, University of California, Irvine. He is a former president of the American
Society of Criminology and recipient of the Society’s Edwin H. Sutherland
Award for outstanding research. His most recent books are Criminal Justice and
Moral Issues, with Robert Meier (Roxbury, 2006) and White-Collar and Corpo-
rate Crime (Prentice Hall,2006).
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Dienke Hondiusis an associate professor at the History Faculty of Vrije Uni-
versiteit Amsterdam and a staff member at the Anne Frank House,Amsterdam.
She has written about anti-Semitism around the time of the Liberation, the
treatment of Jewish survivors upon their return, and race and racism in Dutch
society.
Michael Levi has been Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University, Wales,
UK since 1991,and has been researching organised and white-collar crime issues
since 1972. He has degrees from Oxford,Cambridge and Southampton Universi-
ties. His books include Drugs and Money (with Petrus van Duyne),2005; Fraud:
Organization, Motivation and Control I and II,1999; Money-Laundering in the
UK (with Michael Gold),1994; The Investigation,Prosecution,and Trial of Seri-
ous Fraud, 1993; Regulating Fraud: White-Collar Crime and the Criminal
Process, 1987; and The Phantom Capitalists: the Organisation and Control of
Long-Firm Fraud,1981,to be republished by Ashgate in 2006 with a new intro-
duction. He is currently completing White-Collar Crime and its Victims and
White-Collar Crime in the Media for Clarendon Press, Oxford, and a variety of
research studies on serious and organised crime.
Don Liddickreceived his PhD in Administration of Justice from the Pennsylvania
State University,and is presently the program chair of the criminal justice depart-
ment at Penn State-Fayette. He has written numerous books and articles inthe area
of organized crime and political corruption. His most recent book onenvironmental
and animal rights terrorism will be published by Praeger in Fall 2006.
Tom Naylor is Professor of Economics at McGill University in Montreal. His
main fields of research are black markets, smuggling and international financial
crime. He is author of eight books of which the best known are:Hot Money and
the Politics of Debt; Economic Warfare:Embargoes,Sanctions Busting and State-
Sponsored Crime; and Wages of
Crime: Black Markets, Illegal Finance and the Underworld Economy. His latest
book,Satanic Purses:Money,Myth and Misinformation in the War on Terror,is
slated for publication in the autumn of 2006.
Henry N. Pontellis professor of criminology,law and society and of sociology at
the University of California,Irvine. He is a former vice-president of the American
Society of Criminology, and recipient of the Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished
Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association. His most recent
books are Profit Without Honor:White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America,
with Stephen Rosoff and Robert Tillman (Prentice Hall,2006) and The Interna-
tional Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, with Gilbert Geis
(Springer,2006).
Francisco Thoumi holds a B.A. from the Universidad de Los Andes and his
Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota (Economics). He is professor of Economics
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and Director of the Research and Monitoring Center on Drugs and Crime,
Universidad del Rosario, Bogota and author of Political Economy and Illegal
Drugs in Colombia, Lynne Rienner, 1995 and Illegal Drugs, Economy and
Society in the Andes,The Johns Hopkins University Press,2003. He is member
of the Board of Directors of the Colombian Economic Sciences Academy.