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Tougher fines for possession don’t solve the problems that enable gangs to move in to cities like Marseille.
With wagers available on everything ranging from a pitcher throwing a strike to a wide receiver catching a touchdown, athletes are increasingly tempted to game the system.
Longtime mob reporter George Anastasia explains how intensive electronic eavesdropping revealed dialogue that surpassed Hollywood scripts.
The legendary agenda rossa contained extensive notes on how organised crime operated in a particularly turbulent period in Italian history.
Peter Dutton says the CFMEU is the ‘modern-day mafia’. He wants US-style racketeering laws to target enterprises that engage in a pattern of criminal behaviour.
In the violence’s worse periods there were up to two deaths on average a week.
Abuse of office is no longer a crime and the use of wiretaps has been severely restricted.
The idea is to create a new culture in which passive compliance with racketeering and extortion is not the default.
Real ‘mob wives’ either avoid drawing attention to themselves or present a superficial illusion of what their lives are really like.
The deeply flawed but intriguing Tony Soprano opened up a whole new world of complicated relatable characters that drew audiences in their millions.
Women are often victims of these highly patriarchal crime systems – but they can also be powerful decision makers and exploiters of others.
Federal and state RICO charges, which target racketeering, have been applied to a wide range of crimes committed by politicians and business people over the past few decades.
Mafia groups don’t just cause harm through violence, they can erode the principles that make a democracy function.
The Oscar-winning film sketches out the broad themes of Berluconist hedonism, all against the backdrop of the decline of ideologies that shaped 20th-century Italy.
As violent attacks against gay people continue to increase in the US, Black transwomen face ongoing battles against discrimination in the workplace and over receiving health care.
The stories of women who escape the mafia need to be told but we also need to learn more about the women who stay and reinforce the structures of crime families.
The book shows how parts of South Africa now fester with organised crime.
South Africans are actively challenging the criminalisation of the state. Many of the revelations about fraud, corruption and nepotism come from principled whistle-blowers within the state.
Organised crime gangs appear to have realised that committing fewer murders enables them to fly under the radar more easily.
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Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption, University of Bath
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Professor of Sociology of Law and Deviance, Università di Bologna; University of Essex; The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor at University of Milan and Executive Director of the CLEAN Unit on the economics of crime at Bocconi University, Bocconi University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Assistant Professor in Economics, University of California, Merced
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Professor In Criminology, University of Staffordshire
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Professor of Economics, University of Essex
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Professeur de droit (Law professor) - Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Université Côte d’Azur
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Lecturer in Economics, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Global Politics and Anti-Slavery, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Essex
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Honorary Research Associate, UCL
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Emeritus Professor of Criminology, School of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University