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ILLEGAL ENTERPRISE: A THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION *

Criminology, 1990
Illegal enterprise—defined as the sale of illegal goods and services to customers who know that the goods or services are illegal—has long been a central part of the American underworld, but it has received little attention as a separate criminological category. Although such activities are often relatively short term and small scale when compared with
Mark H Haller
exaly   +3 more sources

the motives and mechanics of operating an illegal drug enterprise

Deviant Behavior, 1999
This article examines the structure and process of illicit drug-dealing activities.Motives,mechanics of operations, and strategies used to avoid detection and to identify law enforcement are allexamined, providing a clearer picture of the lifestyles lead by drug dealers. On the basis of qualitative interviews conducted with participants in a drug court
Richard Tewksbury
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The Late-Modern City as a Bazaar: Drug Markets, Illegal Enterprise and the 'Barricades'

British Journal of Sociology, 1997
The authors describe drug use and drug-related crime in the contemporary city. In this description, they adopt a notion of the city as a market-place, and more precisely as a 'bazaar', for its multiplicity, incessant bargaining, trade and manoeuvre. In this 'bazaar' legality and illegality intermingle, and moral boundaries are constantly negotiated ...
Vincenzo Ruggiero, Nigel South
exaly   +3 more sources

Fifty years of research on illegal enterprise: an interview with Mark Haller

Trends in Organized Crime, 2011
This interview with professor emeritus Mark Haller, conducted in August 2010, discusses Haller’s career and his research on organized crime. Haller studied crime in Chicago and Philadelphia, in particular the business activities of Al Capone and Angelo Bruno and their respective associates, concluding that illegal businesses have to be distinguished ...
Matthew G Yeager
exaly   +2 more sources

The Hidden Enterprise of Bootlegging Cigarettes Out of Greece: Two Schemes of Illegal Entrepreneurship

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 2009
Cigarette smuggling in all its forms prevents the Greek state from collecting large amounts of taxes. The phenomenon has been largely neglected by the academic community and this is even more the case when it comes to bootlegging. This article is a presentation of the available evidence on two schemes of bootlegging cigarettes out of Greece.
G. Antonopoulos, Jay Mitra
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Is there No Place for Culture in a Sociology of Legal and Illegal Enterprise?

American Sociological Review, 2006
Jeffery T. Ulmer, D. Steffensmeier
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

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