 Changing Typology of Organised Crime in a Post-Socialist Lithuania (the Late 1980s--Early 2000s)Aurelijus Gutauskas, Arunas Juska, Peter Johnstone and Richard Pozzuto Global Crime, 2004, vol. 6, issue 2, 201-221 Abstract: This paper analyzes the dynamics of organised crime in post-socialist Lithuania. Three overlapping periods in evolution of organised crime are discerned. During the mid 1980s organised crime emerged with the attempts to liberalise the state socialism by legalizing cooperative and individual property as a basis for economic activities. By the early 1990s organised crime in Lithuania began to metamorphose from illegal manufacturing to opportunistic criminality associated with the privatisation of state property. Since the mid 1990s organised crime has again undergone change. It has entered what could be termed a maturation phase. This maturation was influenced by a number of factors including; the end of the privatization process, resumed growth of the economy, development of the legal and fiscal infrastructure to regulate a market economy, and increasing effectiveness and successes of policing in Lithuania [1]. In this article the political, socio-economic, organisational and cultural factors that influenced the dynamics of change in organised crime are analyzed. Date: 2004 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:fglcxx:v:6:y:2004:i:2:p:201-221 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/17440570500096775 Access Statistics for this article Global Crime is currently edited by Carlo Morselli More articles in Global Crime from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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