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Economic perspectives on organized crime
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2004This article provides a brief overview of the background to organized crime in the Balkans. It attempts to cast light on its economic and systemic (i.e. political and economic) prerequisites. It speculates on issues like the causes and provisional size of the black economy and semi‐economic factors and constellations that have supported it in the last ...
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Organized and Economic Crime: A Common Problem
2012This chapter deals with the phenomenon of organized crime that has emerged as an urgent and serious problem in all transition countries. The authors analyze the influence of the profound political and economic changes that formed the basis of the shift from a totalitarian regime into a democratic, market-oriented society.
Martin Cejp, Miroslav Scheinost
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Economic organized crime networks in emerging democracies
International Journal of Social Economics, 2008PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to highlight both the ways in which transnational organized crime has developed and will develop, and also some problems in relation to financing economic organized crime networks. These are related to the problem of state capture problem in emerging democracies.Design/methodology/approachThe literature and other ...
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On The Economics oF Organized Crime [PDF]
, 2008 The core function of organized crime is the selling of protection. Protection can be real, against third-party crime, or manufactured by the organized crime groups themselves. Mafias and gangs emerge in areas of weak state control, because of prohibition and geographic, ethnic, or social isolation.
Vimal Kumar, Stergios Skaperdas
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Economic Conditions, Neighborhood Organization, and Urban Crime
Crime and Justice, 1986Analyses of neighborhoods and their role in urban decline and revival, and mainstream sociological theories of crime, have focused attention on neighborhood crime and crime control patterns. Although much has been learned from such work, the effects of economic change on neighborhood social organization have not been taken into account.
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Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2012
The illegal enterprise-model has become very popular in the research of organized crime. However, the theoretical foundations of the economic analysis of organized crime can be criticized in a fundamental way, since two key explanatory principles, the model of ‘homo economicus’ and ‘efficient markets’, do not seem to fit the empirical phenomena to be ...
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The illegal enterprise-model has become very popular in the research of organized crime. However, the theoretical foundations of the economic analysis of organized crime can be criticized in a fundamental way, since two key explanatory principles, the model of ‘homo economicus’ and ‘efficient markets’, do not seem to fit the empirical phenomena to be ...
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Economic geography and organized crime: A critical review
Geoforum, 2010Abstract This review argues that organized crime accounts for a significant proportion of global economic activity but despite this has yet to receive substantive attention from economic geographers. It argues that the study of organized crime would expand the empirical terrain of economic geography and produce more holistic, nuanced accounts of ...
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The Economic Costs of Organized Crime: Evidence from Southern Italy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 I examine the post-war economic development of two regions in southern Italy exposed to maa activity after the 1970s and apply synthetic control methods to estimate their counterfactual economic performance in the absence of organized crime. The synthetic control is a weighted average of other regions less aected by maa activity that mimics the ...
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Essays on the Economics of Organized Crime and Networks
2023This thesis contains four essays on the economics of organized crime and the empirical analysis of social networks. The first chapter provides a review of the recent economic literature on the impacts of organized crime on elections, and on public policies.
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Measuring Organized Crime: Statistical Indicators and Economics Aspects
2018One of the most negative factors that characterize Italian economy and society is the pervasive and oppressive presence of organized crime, affecting many aspects of the daily live and every sector of business. The data unfortunately show how this phenomenon is increasingly growing and involves more and more aspects of our society (Albanese & Marinelli,
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