All Outputs (40)

The past and present of transnational organized crime in America (2021)
Book Chapter

This fully revised new edition provides a definitive and holistic overview of Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in a world in which right wing populism has gained ground, trade wars are increasing, climate change is a reality and Covid poses a chal... Read More about The past and present of transnational organized crime in America.

A world fit for money laundering: The Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control (2020)
Journal Article

This is the untold history of how prominent civil servants in the UK tailored US-devised anti-money laundering (AML) policies in ways that suited the needs of Britain’s financial services industry. In the aftermath of these initial compromises in 198... Read More about A world fit for money laundering: The Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control.

Organised crime and security threats in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: A Critical analysis of US assumptions and policies (2019)
Journal Article

The prevailing attitude of international legal institutions is that drug trafficking remains a dominant organised crime, which presents a major security threat to all nations, including the US. While US assumptions and policies on organised crime and... Read More about Organised crime and security threats in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: A Critical analysis of US assumptions and policies.

Underworld as servant and smokescreen: Crimes of the Powerful and the evolution of organized crime control (2018)
Book Chapter

Crimes of the Powerful (CotP), published in 1976, was the first book to make the case in any depth that the phenomena known as “corporate crime” and “organized crime” were not mutually exclusive. Frank Pearce argued that gangsters, far from being dic... Read More about Underworld as servant and smokescreen: Crimes of the Powerful and the evolution of organized crime control.

Policy brief for law enforcement and policy making agencies in Jamaica May 2018: Organized crime control in Jamaica: A small island country’s dilemma (2018)
Report

Re-conceptualising organized crime control in Jamaica requires an evidence informed strategy which must be more suited to local conditions and variations than the present structure. Jamaica, like other indebted countries, has reduced tariff revenu... Read More about Policy brief for law enforcement and policy making agencies in Jamaica May 2018: Organized crime control in Jamaica: A small island country’s dilemma.

Double Crossed: The Failure of Organized Crime Control (2017)
Book

A study of American and international organized crime control efforts.

Written evidence for the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy Conflict, Stability and Security Fund inquiry - publications (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper

The evidence will first discuss the disconnection existing between policy makers and academics in the context of threat analysis and organised crime control policy making.

Fifty years investigating institutional corruption and organized crime: an interview with Selwyn Raab (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Selwyn Raab was conducted during 2014. It discusses Raab’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his experiences as a student journalist dur... Read More about Fifty years investigating institutional corruption and organized crime: an interview with Selwyn Raab.

Questioning preconceived notions about organized crime: an interview with Petrus C. van Duyne (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Petrus C. van Duyne was conducted during 2014. It discusses van Duyne’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his graduate and postgraduate... Read More about Questioning preconceived notions about organized crime: an interview with Petrus C. van Duyne.

The analysis and containment of organized crime in Europe: an interview with Cyrille Fijnaut (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Cyrille Fijnaut was conducted during 2013 and 2014. It discusses Fijnaut’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his early career in the Dut... Read More about The analysis and containment of organized crime in Europe: an interview with Cyrille Fijnaut.

The analysis and containment of organized crime in New York City and beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with James B. Jacobs was conducted during 2014. As a law student at University of Chicago in the early 1970s, Jacobs conducted a participant observation study at Stateville Penite... Read More about The analysis and containment of organized crime in New York City and beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs.

Enterprise not ethnicity: an interview with Dwight C. Smith Jr (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Dwight C. Smith Jr. was conducted during 2012 and 2013. It discusses Smith’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his early career in U.S.... Read More about Enterprise not ethnicity: an interview with Dwight C. Smith Jr.

Combatting and analysing organized crime: the view from witnesses (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This special issue of Trends in Organized Crime begins with a tribute to Joseph Albini who died in 2013 written by his colleague Jeff McIllwain and ends with Matthew G. Yeager’s reexamination of the c... Read More about Combatting and analysing organized crime: the view from witnesses.

U.S. organized crime control policies exported abroad (2014)
Book Chapter

Organized crime and migration: The Lombroso mafia myth (2013)
Book Chapter

Moralism, mafias and markets: The evolution of popular and governmental understanding of organized crime (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper

Organised crime, the mythology of the mafia, and the American/Anglo response (2012)
Journal Article

The past and present of transnational organized crime in America (2011)
Book Chapter

Organized evil and the Atlantic alliance: Moral panics and the rhetoric of organized crime policing in America and Britain (2009)
Journal Article

Moral panics are conventionally associated with the interpretations of youthful action imposed by powerful state or media forces. However, the concept is also useful in understanding more generally how social problems are constructed and presented. I... Read More about Organized evil and the Atlantic alliance: Moral panics and the rhetoric of organized crime policing in America and Britain.

The history of native Americans and the misdirected study of organized crime (2009)
Book Chapter