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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.
| ISBN | 0415467276 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9780415467278
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 365 | | Imprint | Routledge | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 10 Jan 2008 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 364.106 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate |
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| | | Foreword by David Beetham | | | | | | Organized crime: a threat to democracy? by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert | | 1 | | Pt. I | | Definitions and diatribes | | 25 | | 1 | | Why is organized crime so successful? by Fabio Armao | | 27 | | 2 | | Mafia and anti-Mafia: the implications for everyday life by Renate Siebert | | 39 | | 3 | | Transnational organized crime between myth and reality: the social construction of a threat by Monica Massari | | 55 | | Pt. II | | The 'weakest link': the State under siege | | 71 | | 4 | | Organized crime, business and the State in post-communist Russia by Sergei Plekhanov | | 73 | | 5 | | Drug-trafficking and the State: the case of Colombia by Sayaka Fukumi | | 93 | | 6 | | Transnational organized crime, security and the European Union by Wyn Rees | | 112 | | Pt. III | | Civil society held to ransom | | 127 | | 7 | | 'Once upon a time in America': organized crime and civil society by Robert J. Kelly and Rufus Schatzberg | | 129 | | 8 | | Civil resistance: society fights back ... by Ercole Giap Parini | | 147 | | 9 | | For Christ's sake: organized crime and religion by Alessandra Dino | | 161 | | Pt. IV | | Organized crime and politics | | 175 | | 10 | | Democracy and the gangs: the case of Marseilles by Paola Monzini | | 177 | | 11 | | Organized crime, politics and the judiciary in post-war Italy by Jean-Louis Briquet | | 188 | | 12 | | Mediated democracy: Yakuza and Japanese political leadership by Eiko Maruko | | 202 | | | | Conclusion: organized crime and democracy: 'uncivil' or 'civil' society? by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert | | 219 | | | | Index | | 230 |
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