Organized crime and states

Jean-Louis Briquet () and Gilles Favarel-Garrigues ()
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Jean-Louis Briquet: CESSP - Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Gilles Favarel-Garrigues: CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In contrast to a globalizing approach to "transnational organized crime," this edited volume studies socio-historical environments in which mafia-esque violence has found a fertile ground for growth and development within the political arena. The various chapters explore empirical data showing how politico-criminal configurations emerge, are formed and allow for interactions between powerful official stakeholders and "professionals of the use of force". Links between military know-how and political power in Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey; the conversion of "violent entrepreneurs" into the Russian or Bulgarian political arena; the political racketeering activities of leaders of armed nationalist movements in Corsica; interactions between the Calabrese mafia and business; investment by the Belizean government in illegal activities; or else, monetary illegalism in the Somalia conflict . . . The various chapters of this book encourage a comparative approach to the study of mafia violence in the making and running of State power. (Résumé de l'éditeur)

Keywords: Mafia; Organized crime; Political criminality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Published in Jean-Louis Briquet; Gilles Favarel-Garrigues. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.272, 2010, 9781349384433

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