Organized Crime and Trust: On the conceptualization and empirical relevance of trust in the context of criminal networks

Klaus von Lampe and Per Ole Johansen

Global Crime, 2004, vol. 6, issue 2, 159-184

Abstract: Organised crime networks are often characterised as being held together by bonds of trust, but the conventional wisdom regarding the relation between trust and organised crime lacks a comprehensive theoretical and empirical underpinning. The purpose of this paper is to explore where deeper research on this issue may lead and how it can potentially contribute to a better understanding of organised crime in general. Drawing on the general sociological literature, it provides a preliminary conceptualisation of trust in the context of organised crime centred around a fourfold typology along the micro-macro dimension. The authors use anecdotal evidence from their research on illegal markets for highly taxed goods in Norway and Germany to illustrate that there are different types of trust, that there are different consequences of the violation of trust, and, finally, that there are criminal relations not based on trust at all.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/17440570500096734

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