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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.

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.