Course Number: CC205
Subject: Criminology
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These articles are also available in Organized Crime: Critical Concepts in Criminology edited by Federico Varese. This 4-volume print set can be borrowed through Omni.
Articles and Book Chapters
General introduction: what is organized crime? Federico Varese -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: VOLUME: 1; PART n/a; CHAPTER TITLE: General introduction: what is organized crime?; PAGES: n/a)
Index -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: VOLUME: 4; PART 13; CHAPTER TITLE: Index; PAGES: n/a)
Volume I – Definitions and Theories
Rinconete and Cortadillo Miguel de Cervantes
On defining "organized crime": the development of a definition and a typology Michael D. Maltz
The organized crime continuum: a further specification of a new conceptual model Frank E. Hagan
The paradoxes of organized crime Letizia Paoli
Crime as an American way of life Daniel Bell
Individual choice, material culture, and organized crime Peter A. Lupsha
Paragons, pariahs, and pirates: a spectrum-based theory of enterprise Dwight C. Smith, Jr.
Illegal enterprise: a theoretical and historical interpretation Mark H. Haller
The firm: organizational logic and criminal culture on a shifting terrain Richard Hobbs
Economics and criminal enterprise Thomas C. Schelling
What is the business of organized crime? Thomas C. Schelling
A defense of organized crime? James M. Buchanan -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 1; PART 2; CHAPTER TITLE: 12 - A defense of organized crime?; PAGES: n/a)
The economic theory of the criminal firm Paul H. Rubin -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 1; PART 2; CHAPTER TITLE: 13 - The economic theory of the criminal firm; PAGES: n/a)
Economic consequences of organized violence Frederic C. Lane
Why state-of-nature theory? Robert Nozick -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 1; PART 2; CHAPTER TITLE: 15 - Why state-of-nature theory?; PAGES: n/a)
The state of nature Robert Nozick -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 1; PART 2; CHAPTER TITLE: 16 - The state of nature; PAGES: n/a)
War making and state making as organized crime Charles Tilly
Fragments of an economic theory of the mafia Diego Gambetta
The political economy of organized crime: providing protection when the state does not Stergios Skaperdas
Methodological problems in the study of organized crime as a social problem Donald R. Cressey
The application of network analysis to criminal intelligence: an assessment of the prospects Malcolm K. Sparrow
Volume II - Origins, Resources and Organization
Land reform, the market for protection, and the origins of the Sicilian mafia: theory and evidence Oriana Bandiera
Is Sicily the future of Russia? Private protection and the rise of the Russian mafia Federico Varese
The dark side of private ordering: an institutional and empirical analysis of organized crime Curtis J. Milhaupt and Mark D. West
The Notorious Purple Gang: Detroit's all-Jewish Prohibition era mob Robert A. Rockaway
Organized crime in urban society: Chicago in the twentieth century Mark H. Haller
The triads as business Yiu K. Chu
Wise guy: life in a mafia family Nicholas Pileggi -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 2; PART 5; CHAPTER TITLE: 28 - Wise guy: life in a mafia family; PAGES: n/a)
The trademarks Diego Gambetta -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 2; PART 6; CHAPTER TITLE: 29- The trademarks; PAGES: n/a)
Gender norms in the Sicilian mafia, 1945-86 Valerie Pizzini-Gambetta -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 2; PART 6; CHAPTER TITLE: 30 - Gender norms in the Sicilian mafia, 1945-86; PAGES: n/a)
The Benguerra family Annelise Graebner Anderson -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 2; PART 6; CHAPTER TITLE: 31 - The Benguerra family; PAGES: n/a)
Careers opportunities and network-based privileges in the Cosa Nostra Carlo Morselli
Organisation Yiu K. Chu
The mafia in Perm Federico Varese
The modern yakuza: structure and organization Peter Hill
Volume III - Organized Crime and Penetration of Markets
Orderly markets Diego Gambetta -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 3; PART 7; CHAPTER TITLE: 36 - Orderly markets; PAGES: n/a)
The exploitation of prostitution John Landesco -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 3; PART 7; CHAPTER TITLE: 37 - The exploitation of prostitution; PAGES: n/a)
Numbers gambling Annelise Graebner Anderson -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 3; PART 7; CHAPTER TITLE: 38 - Numbers gambling; PAGES: n/a)
Loansharking Annelise Graebner Anderson -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 3; PART 7; CHAPTER TITLE: 39 - Loansharking; PAGES: n/a)
Labor racketeering: the mafia and the unions James B. Jacobs and Ellen Peters
The rational racketeer: pasta protection in Depression Era Chicago Barbara Alexander
Racketeers as cartel organizers Peter Reuter -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 3; PART 7; CHAPTER TITLE: 42 - Racketeers as cartel organizers; PAGES: n/a)
On the origins of fuels racketeering: the Americans and the "Russians" in New York Alan A. Block -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 3; PART 7; CHAPTER TITLE: 43 - On the origins of fuels racketeering: the Americans and the "Russians" in New York; PAGES: n/a)
Protection against competitors: traditional operations Yiu K. Chu
Protection against competitors: recent operations Yiu K. Chu
Drug Dealing Yiu K. Chu
Gambling Yiu K. Chu
Prostitution Yiu K. Chu
Private protection in Russia and Poland Timothy Frye
Casino politics, organized crime and the post-colonial state in Macau Lo Shiu Hing
The ethnic vice industry, 1880-1944 Ivan Light
An economic analysis of a drug-selling gang's finances Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Black and white control of numbers gambling: a cultural assets-social capital view Darrell Steffensmeier and Jeffrey T. Ulmer
Out of Africa: the human trade between Libya and Lampedusa Salvatore Coluccello and Simon Massey
Volume IV - Organized Crime and Popular Culture, States and Terrorism
The secret history of Japanese cinema: the yakuza movies Federico Varese
Mobster gravestones in 1990s Russia Olga Matich
The Allies and the mafia Salvatore Lupo
The gangster and the politician John Landesco -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 4; PART 8; CHAPTER TITLE: 58 - The gangster and the politician; PAGES: n/a)
A modern marriage of convenience: a collaboration between organized crime and U.S. intelligence Alan A. Block -- (PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START CHAPTER SCAN REQUEST: VOLUME: 4; PART 8; CHAPTER TITLE: 59 - A modern marriage of convenience: a collaboration between organized crime and U.S. intelligence; PAGES: n/a)
Organized crime and the political-criminal nexus in China Ko-Lin Chin and Roy Godson
Law enforcement disruption of a drug importation network Carlo Morselli and Katia Petit
New York City as organized crime fighter James B. Jacobs and Alex Hortis
Scrutinizing RICO Carlo Morselli and Lila Kazemian
Heisei yakuza: burst bubble and Bōtaihō Peter Hill
The mafia and al-Qaeda: violent and secretive organizations in comparative and historical perspective Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider
The crime-terror continuum: tracing the interplay between transnational organized crime and terrorism Tamara Makarenko
How mafias migrate: the case of the 'Ndrangheta in northern Italy Federico Varese
Hong Kong triads after 1997 Yiu K. Chu
The search for the Russian mafia: Central and Eastern European criminals in the Netherlands, 1989-2005 Anton Weenick and Franca van der Laan
The decline of the American mafia Peter Reuter
The declining significance of triad societies in transnational illegal activities: a structural deficiency perspective Sheldon Zhang and Ko-Lin Chin
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