| Organized Crime Research (kvl-homepage) |
What's new on the kvl-homepage? 23 October 2024 Definition of organized crime from the Global Organized Crime Index of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime added (This is number 216 on my list of definitions). 14 August 2024 Definition of organized crime by A. Pandey added (This is number 215 on my list of definitions). 11 August 2024 List of publications and presentations updated. 22 December 2023 List of publications and presentations updated. 26 October 2023 List of publications and presentations updated. 8 October 2023 List of publications and presentations updated. 19 September 2023 List of publications and presentations updated. 9 August 2023 Definition of organized crime from the Nepal Organized Crime Prevention Act, 2070 added (This is number 214 on my list of definitions). 11 April 2023 List of publications and presentations updated. 7 December 2022 List of publications and presentations updated. 15 November 2022 Definition of organized crime by C.K. Gandhirajan from India added (This is number 213 on my list of definitions). 28 October 2022 New German definition of organized crime added. 13 October 2022 List of publications and presentations updated. 2 October 2022 List of publications and presentations updated. 1 September 2022 List of publications and presentations updated. 11 August 2022 List of publications and presentations updated. Section on the Cross-border-Crime-Colloquium book series updated. 3 January 2022 Definition of organized crime from the UIA Encyclopedia of World Problems & Human Potential added. (This is number 211 on my list of definitions) 8 September 2021 List of publications and presentations updated. 6 September 2021 Tribute to Donald R. Cressey updated. 26 August 2021 List of publications and presentations updated. 13 May 2021 List of publications and presentations updated. 16 February 2021 Definitions of organized crime from the Cambridge Dictionary and by Rossella Selmini added. (These are number 209 and number 210 on my list of definitions) 4 November 2020 List of publications and presentations updated. 12 October 2020 List of publications and presentations updated. 16 September 2020 List of publications and presentations updated. 8 August 2020 List of publications and presentations updated. 9 March 2020 List of publications and presentations updated. 12 January 2020 Definition of organized crime from the RCMP website added. (Reported by William Murphy - This is number 208 on my list of definitions) 5 December 2019 Definition of organized crime from UNODC TOC Threat Assessment added. (Reported by Nicolaas Geldenhuys - This is number 207 on my list of definitions) Abstract of 2018 Cross-border Crime Colloquium book added. 1 December 2019 Excerpts from a paper on the history of the concept and definition of organized crime in Germany and from a chapter in a legal handbook on the German intelligences services on the use of the term organized crime in legislation and jurisprudence (both in German) added. List of publications and presentations updated. 25 October 2019 List of publications and presentations updated. 13 October 2019 List of publications and presentations updated. 5 October 2019 Definitions of organized crime from Merriam-Webster dictionaries added. (These are numbers 204 and 205 on my list.) 10 September 2019 List of publications and presentations updated. 19 June 2019 List of publications and presentations updated. 28 March 2019 Definition of organized crime by the ATF added. 14 March 2019 List of publications and presentations updated. Definition of organized crime added. Affiliation updated. 2 September 2018 List of publications and presentations updated. 11 July 2018 Quote on the concept of organized crime added to list of definitions. List of publications and presentations updated. 11 May 2018 Definition of organized crime by Graham Denyer Willis added. 6 May 2018 Comments on the nature of organized crime by leading criminologists of the 1950s added: Gresham Sykes in his seminal book Crime and Society (1956), and George Vold in the first edition of his seminal book Theoretical Criminology (1958). 1 May 2018 Definition of organized crime by Ronald Hunter and Mark Dantzker added. 6 April 2018 List of publications and presentations updated. 4 April 2018 Comment by Peter Carrington on Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, and extra-legal governance added. 2 March 2018 List of publications and presentations updated. 1 Januar 2018 Personal information updated. 18 December 2017 List of publications and presentations updated. 14 December 2017 List of publications and presentations updated. 21 November 2017 One more definition of organized crime added. In my collection of English- and German-language definitions of organized crime, this is no. 200(!!!!). List of publications and presentations updated. 17 October 2017 List of publications and presentations updated. 5 October 2017 Review of the book The Two Mafias by Salvatore Lupo added. List of publications and presentations updated. 7 September 2017 German definition of organized crime by Rustam Abasov added. 28 August 2017 List of publications and presentations updated. Page on new Cross-border Crime book added. 11 August 2017 Two more definitions of organized crime from Southern Africa added. 10 August 2017 Chapter (in German) on the role of the German intelligence services in combating organized crime added. 1 August 2017 Another German definition of organized crime and a couple of comments on the official German definition of organized crime added. 10 July 2017 List of publications and presentations updated. 3 July 2017 Definition of organized crime from the National Crime Agency (NCA) website and from the 2016 Northern Ireland Organised Crime Strategy added. 14 June 2017 List of publications and presentations updated. 7 February 2017 List of publications and presentations updated. 31 January 2017 Review by Djordje Ignjatovic of Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, and extra-legal governance added. Various definitions of organized crime added, bringing the total number of definitions collected to 193. 12 December 2016 Comment by Gerben Bruinsma on Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, and extra-legal governance added. 4 December 2016 List of publications and presentations updated. 28 November 2016 Definition of organized crime from Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) added. 21 November 2016 Link to review of Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance by Robert Lombardo added. 2016 Outstanding Publication Award for Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance acknowledged. 13 November 2016 Definition of organized crime by Marinella Marmo and Nerida Chazal added. 19 October 2016 Link to review of Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, and extra-legal governance added. 16 October 2016 Review of book edited by Ernesto Savona, Michele Riccardi and Giulia Berlusconi on criminal infiltration of legitimate businesses added. 29 September 2016 Comments on and link to review of Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, and extra-legal governance added. 12 September 2016 List of publications and presentations updated. 1 August 2016 List of publications and presentations updated. 29 July 2016 List of publications and presentations updated. Comments on and link to review of Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, and extra-legal governance added. 14 July 2016 List of publications and presentations updated. 3 July 2016 Comments on my book 'Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Goverance' from leading experts in the field of organized crime studies around the world added. 29 June 2016 List of publications and presentations updated. 31 May 2016 Definition of organized crime by Frank Bovenkerk from 2011 added. 20 May 2016 Minor update of bio. 17 November 2015 List of publications and presentations updated. 20 September 2015 List of publications and presentations updated. 4 August 2015 List of publications and presentations updated. Page on the new book Organized Crime: Analyzing illegal activities, criminal structures, extra-legal governance added. 13 July 2015 List of publications and presentations updated. Page on new Cross-border Crime book added. 9 July 2015 Definition of organized crime by Andvig from 2012 added. 29 June 2015 Definition of organized crime by Territo et al. from 1992 added. 15 June 2015 List of publications and presentations updated. 24 March 2015 List of publications and presentations updated. 6 December 2014 List of publications and presentations updated. 11 July 2014 List of publications and presentations updated. Page on new Cross-border Crime book added. 1 May 2014 Three more definitions of organized crime added. 1 January 2014 List of publications and presentations and personal profile updated. Paper on China's role in the illegal cigarette trade added. 14 October 2013 List of publications and presentations updated. 20 August 2013 Definition of organized crime by Peter Lupsha from 1981 added. 3 August 2013 List of publications and presentations updated. 23 July 2013 List of publications and presentations updated. 15 May 2013 List of publications and presentations updated. 12 April 2013 Definition of organized crime by Paul H. Rubin added. 10 April 2013 Definition of organized crime by Menachem Amir added. List of publications and presentations updated. 3 March 2013 List of publications and presentations updated. 12 February 2013 Definition of organized crime by Schaefer and Lamm added. 23 October 2012 More definitions of organized crime added, bringing the total to over 170 (English and German language definitions combined). List of publications and presentations updated. 19 October 2012 Revised definition of organized crime by S.G. Lebeya added. 17 October 2012 Definition of organized crime from BusinessDictionary.com added. List of suggested reading on RICO updated. 3 October 2012 List of publications and presentations updated. 27 August 2012 List of publications and presentations updated. 6 August 2012 Paper on the illegal cigarette market in the South Bronx (co-authors: Marin Kurti and Douglas Thompkins) added. 20 June 2012 List of publications and presentations updated. 29 May 2012 List of publications and presentations updated. 27 April 2012 Reaching the mark of 1 million visitors is noted. 22 March 2012 List of publications and presentations updated. 19 March 2012 Definition of organized crime by P.J. Ortmeier added. 3 February 2012 Link to Petrus van Duyne's website added. 29 January 2012 List of publications and presentations updated. 1 January 2012 Link to Public Safety Canada's Organized Crime Research website added. 21 November 2011 Definition of organized crime by Estrada Ireland & Rush added. List of publications and presentations updated. 4 November 2011 Definitions of organized crime by Michael D. Maltz and by Michael Newton added. 16 October 2011 Review of book by Salvatore Lupo on the history of the Sicilian Mafia added. List of publications and presentations updated. 3 October 2011 Definition of organized crime by Vito and Maahs added. 19 July 2011 List of publications and presentations updated. 14 July 2011 Definition of organized crime by Ianni & Reuss-Ianni from 1972 added. 9 May 2011 List of publications and presentations updated. 26 April 2011 Link to Gray Literature Database at Rutgers School of Criminal Justice added. 1 April 2011 Definition of organized crime by Daryl Hellman from 1980 added. 22 March 2011 List of publications and presentations updated. 18 March 2011 URL of collection of organized crime definitions changed to www.organized-crime.de/organizedcrimedefinitions.htm in an effort to improve the search engine listing of this particular webpage. 1 March 2011 List of publications and presentations updated. 24 February 2011 Definition of organized crime by Bojan Dobovsek from 2007, and a definition of organized crime by Shawn Shieh from 2005 added. 25 January 2011 Definition of organized crime by Frederick Desroches from 2007 added. 29 December 2010 Definition of organized crime by Daniel Chow from 2003 added. 26 December 2010 List of publications and presentations updated. Page on new Cross-border Crime book added. 12 December 2010 Definition of organized crime by the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation (SARPCCO) added. List of publications and presentations updated. 22 November 2010 List of publications and presentations updated. 25 October 2010 List of publications and presentations updated. 6 August 2010 Definition of organized crime by Mary Kaldor from 2006 added. 4 June 2010 Definition of organized crime by Roy Godson from 2003 added. 26 May 2010 Definition of organized crime by Andre Bossard from 1990 added. Count of organized crime definitions updated: more than 150 (153 to be exact). 17 May 2010 Legal definition from Australia and several other definitions of organized crime added. 6 May 2010 More definitions of organized crime added. 21 April 2010 Definition of organized crime by Kirby and Penna added. List of publications and presentations updated. 9 March 2010 Definition of organized crime by Phil Williams from 2002 added. 1 March 2010 List of publications and presentations updated. 11 February 2010 List of publications and presentations updated. 20 January 2010 Two more items added to the Definitions of Organized Crime page. 4 January 2010 Definition of organized crime by United Nations from 1990 added. 23 December 2009 List of publications and presentations updated. Page on new Cross-border Crime book added. 1 December 2009 List of publications and presentations updated. 9 November 2009 List of publications and presentations updated. 7 October 2009 My comment on the issue of defining organized crime from a recent publication added. Link to OCDETF website added. 2 July 2009 Definition of organized crime by the Scottish Government added. List of publications and presentations updated. 29 April 2009 Link to website of German investigative journalist Jürgen Roth updated. 30 March 2009 List of publications and presentations updated. 10 February 2009 List of publications and presentations updated. 2 February 2009 Definition of organized crime by Nick Tilley and Matt Hopkins added. 22 January 2009 Definition of organized crime by Mabel A. Elliott added. Donald-Cressey-Tribute-Page revised. 20 January 2009 Definition of organized crime by John E. Conklin added. 15 January 2009 Definition of organized crime by Mark Galeotti added. 6 January 2009 Announcement of new book from the Cross-border Crime Colloquium series added. List of publications and presentations updated. 11 December 2008 Review of book by Scott Decker and Margaret Townsend Chapman on drug smuggling added. List of publications and presentations updated. 17 November 2008 Definition of organized crime by Patrick Ryan added. 15 November 2008 List of publications and presentations updated. 2 September 2008 Definition of organized crime by Stephen Schneider added. Contact details updated. 16 July 2008 Definition of organized crime by Martin Cejp/IKSP Prague added. 19 June 2008 Links page updated. 10 June 2008 List of publications and presentations updated. 8 May 2008 List of publications and presentations updated. 4 April 2008 Definitions of organized crime by Michael Maltz and S.G. Lebeya added. List of publications and presentations updated. 25 March 2008 List of publications updated. 12 March 2008 Definition of organized crime added. List of publications updated. 18 February 2008 List of publications and presentations updated. 3 February 2008 Book chapter on measuring organized crime added. 4 January 2008 Definition of organized crime by Phil Williams added. 17 December 2007 Review (in German) of book (also in German) on case of large-scale business fraud (Flowtex scandal) added. 5 December 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. 22 November 2007 Start page revised (calendar of organized crime related conferences added). Page on the 7th Blankensee Colloquium "Human Capital and Social Capital in Criminal Networks" added. 19 November 2007 Definitions of organized crime by Beirne and Messerschmidt, John E. Conklin, Grennan and Britz, and Winslow and Zhang added List of publications and presentations updated. 1 November 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. 24 October 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. 8 October 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. Links page updated following up on TraCCC's move from American University to George Mason University. 1 October 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. 21 September 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. Definition of organized crime by Gilbert Kelland added. 10 September 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. 14 August 2007 Review (in German) of book (also in German) on corruption and misconduct in the German criminal justice system added. Definition of organized crime from Canada added. 5 July 2007 Review (in German) of book (also in German) on organized crime in Germany added. 3 July 2007 German definition of organized crime added. List of publications and presentations updated. 21 June 2007 Definitions of organized crime from the President's Commission on Organized Crime and from the German military (in German) added. 7 June 2007 Definition of organized crime from South Africa added. Link to the website of the African Institute for Security Studies (ISS) added. 9 May 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. 4 May 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. 17 April 2007 Definition of organized crime from Switzerland (in German) added. 10 April 2007 Legal definition of organized crime from Serbia added. List of publications and presentations updated. 2 April 2007 Collection of organized crime definitions edited with new entries from the Kefauver Committee and from Dwight C. Smith. 29 March 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. 19 March 2007 Legal definition of organized crime from Tanzania added. 2 March 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. 16 February 2007 Links page updated and several dead links removed. 5 February 2007 Definition of organized crime by Prof. Ignjatovic from Belgrade, Serbia, added. 2 February 2007 List of publications and presentations updated. 15 January 2007 A chapter on illegal enterprise structures in the cigarette black market from the book 'Criminal Fincances and Organising Crime in Europe' posted in PDF-format: Organising the Nicotine Racket. 10 January 2007 Definition of organized crime from Australia added. Links page updated. 4 January 2007 Legal definition of organized crime from Washington State added. 20 December 2006 Legal definition of organized crime from Hong Kong added. 14 December 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 21 November 2006 Review of book on drug trafficking in Canada by Frederick Desroches added. 10 November 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 8 November 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. Definitions of organized crime added. 12 October 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 22 September 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 12 September 2006 Definition of organized crime by Margaret Beare added. 8 September 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 30 August 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 18 August 2006 Two chapters from the book 'Upperworld and Underworld in Cross-Border-Crime' posted in PDF-format: The trafficking in untaxed cigarettes in Germany and Organized Crime Research in Perspective. I am grateful to Wolf Legal Publishers for the permission to make these papers available. 14 August 2006 Definition of organized crime from the Nathanson Center website added. 9 August 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 1 August 2006 New sub-directory of papers on conceptual and theoretical issues relating to organized crime and the study of organized crime added. 28 July 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. Manuscript of journal article on the interdisciplinary dimensions of the study of organized crime posted. 10 July 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 6 July 2006 Pages on German definition of organized crime (in German) revised. 5 July 2006 Definition of organized crime by Yakov Gilinskiy added. 26 June 2006 Review of autobiography of Sonny Barger, leading figure of the Hell's Angels outlaw motorcycle club, added. 8 June 2006 Manuscript of journal article on cigarette black market in Germany and the UK posted in PDF-format. 24 May 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 12 May 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 8 May 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 19 April 2006 Link to the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Initiative to Fight Organized Crime added. 12 April 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 15 March 2006 Definition of organized crime from Korea added. 9 March 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 1 March 2006 A couple of definitions of organized crime added, including one from Mexico. 15 February 2006 Review of book by Lehr and O'Neill about the corrupt links between Boston underworld figure "Whitey" Bulger and FBI agents added. 8 February 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 3 February 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 12 January 2006 List of publications and presentations updated. 11 January 2006 Definition of organized crime by Alan Block added. 5 December 2005 List of publications updated. Report on new approach to assess organized crime added. 28 November 2005 New thematic page on cigarette smuggling with links to several of my papers added, including a chapter in the book The Organised Crime Economy which was published earlier in 2005. 23 November 2005 List of publications and presentations updated. 21 November 2005 Paper on the interdisciplinary dimensions of the study of organized crime added. List of presentations and publications updated. Two more definitions of organized crime added (1, 2). 14 November 2005 Report on cigarette black market in Northwest Europe added. 19 October 2005 Announcement of book on economy and organized crime added. List of publications and presentations updated. Slight modification in start-page design. 10 October 2005 List of publications and presentations updated. 29 September 2005 Review of book on Sicilian Mafia and Calabrian 'Ndrangheta by Letizia Paoli added. 26 September 2005 Review of book on transnational crime by Donald Liddick added. 9 September 2005 List of publications and presentations updated. 5 September 2005 Definitions of organized crime by Best and Luckenbill and by Jim Finckenauer added. 8 August 2005 Links to websites by Bill Tupman and Björn Rohde-Liebenau updated and added, respectively. 6 June 2005 Definition of organized crime added. 2 June 2005 List of publications and presentations updated. 26 May 2005 PDF-files with the cover, table of contents and introductory chapter of two books on cross-border crime (Upperworld and Underworld..., Threats and Phantoms...) added. 12 May 2005 Several definitions of organized crime added. 4 May 2005 Biographical note on German underworld legend Klaus Speer updated. List of publications and presentations updated. 22 April 2005 Review (in German) of book (also in German) on anti-organized crime measures in Germany added. Definition of organized crime from www.u-s-history.com added. 11 March 2005 Review of book by Alfred McCoy on global drug trade added. 10 March 2005 Links to Council of Europe and NCIS added. 24 February 2005 Links page updated. 21 February 2005 Review of historical study on Chinese-American organized crime added. 17 February 2005 Review (in English) of the autobiography of a German cocaine trafficker added. Definition of organized crime by Peter Reuter added. 11 February 2005 Review (in German) of the autobiography of a German cocaine trafficker added. 17 January 2005 Review of book by Greg B. Smith on DeCavalcante crime family added. 20 December 2004 Definition of organized crime from Brazil added. 15 December 2004 Review of book on global organized crime added. 29 November 2004 Michael Levi's social definition of organized criminals added. 22 November 2004 Site moved from http://people.freenet.de/kvlampe/ to the new domain www.organized-crime.de. 16 November 2004 German language definition of organized crime added. 10 November 2004 Definition of organized crime added. 1 November 2004 Link to National Centre for Research on White Collar Crime in Nairobi, Kenya, added. 28 October 2004 Several additions made to page on German language definitions of organized crime. 26 October 2004 Definition of organized crime from a Dutch police intelligence report added. 25 October 2004 Link to "Assessing Organised Crime" project's website added. 1 October 2004 List of publications and presentations updated. 23 September 2004 Contact page updated. 13 September 2004 List of publications and presentations updated. 7 September 2004 List of publications and presentations updated. 1 September 2004 Personal page updated. 18 August 2004 Link to download of study on hazardous waste trafficking added. 27 July 2004 Announcement of book on organized crime, corruption and terrorism added. List of my publications updated. 22 July 2004 Review (in German) of book by Salvatore Lupo on the history of the Sicilian Mafia added. 9 June 2004 Review of Peter Maas' Sammy Gravano biography added. New uniform font (arial) added. 1 June 2004 Review of book by Sean Griffin on Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia' added. 6 May 2004 List of my publications updated. 30 April 2004 Review (in German) of book on organized crime in Germany (also in German) added. 15 April 2004 German language review of Bergreen's Capone biography added. Link to Transcrime website updated. 7 April 2004 Review (in German) of book on child pornography (also in German) added. 19 March 2004 Review of John Gotti biography by Mustain and Capeci (2002) added. 11 March 2004 Definitions of organized crime by Thomas C. Schelling and by Federico Varese added. My own discussion of the problem of defining and conceptualizing organized crime added. 9 March 2004 Definition of organized crime by Peter Reuter and Jonathan Rubinstein from 1978 added. 26 February 2004 Definition of organized crime by Don Liddick added. 2 February 2004 Review of research report on illegal waste trafficking in Italy and Spain added. 21 January 2004 Link to Time.com newsfile: organized crime added. List of Congressional hearings on organized crime updated. 11 January 2004 Definition of organized crime by the California Special Crime Study Commission on Organized Crime from 1948 added. Link to website of Bulgarian Center for the Study of Democracy added. 6 January 2004 List of publications and presentations updated. 29 December 2003 Link to full text (PDF) of Forum on Crime and Society, Vol. 1, no. 2, 2001, containing my article on the conceptual history of organized crime, added. 3 December 2003 Link to Bill Tupman's webpages added. List of publications and presentations updated. 19 November 2003 Link to website of TraCCC Georgia corrected. Croatian definition of organized crime added. 1 November 2003 Link to website of investigative journalist Jürgen Roth added. 17 October 2003 Review of book on synthetic drugs markets in Amsterdam, Barcelona and Turin added. 2 October 2003 Paper on trust and organized crime added. 1 October 2003 Definition of organized crime by Salerno and Tompkins (1969) added. 28 September 2003 Review of Meyer Lansky biography by R. Lacey added. 23 September 2003 Review of book by G. Pearson and D. Hobbs on drug trade in the UK added. 21 September 2003 Paper on the use of models in the study of organized crime added. Publications list updated. 7 September 2003 Links updated, some dead links removed. Publications list updated. 18 August 2003 Link to online course on organized crime, taught at Ryerson University, Canada, added. 1 August 2003 Review of book by R.T. Naylor on global illicit economy (Wages of Crime) added. 23 July 2003 Book announcement (van Duyne et al. (eds.), Criminal Finances and Organising Crime in Europe, Nijmegen 2003) added. List of publications updated. 22 July 2003 Definition of organized crime from India (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999) added. 1 July 2003 Definition of organized crime from 1983 by Peter Lupsha added. Some suggestions for further reading in various reviews added. 11 May 2003 Definition of Organized Crime by Council of Europe added. 4 May 2003 Link to UNICRI website added. 6 April 2003 Review (in German) of book by Norman Braun et al. (also in German) on drug markets in Switzerland added. 21 March 2003 Link to International Organization for Migration (IOM) website added. 19 February 2003 Review of book by Lee Bernstein on organized crime debate in the U.S. during the 1950s and early 1960s added. 27 January 2003 Review of book by Damián Zaitch on Colombian drug traffickers added. 24 November 2002 Review (in German) of book by Claudio Besozzi on illegal markets (also in German) added. 20 November 2002 Paper on trust in criminal relations added. 10 November 2002 Outdated (!) definition of organized crime by the British Home Office/NCIS added. 1 November 2002 Review of Howard Marks, Mr. Nice, (autobiography of drug trafficker) added. Link to StolenCarReports.com added. 27 October 2002 Paper on assessing organized crime in Germany added. List of publications and presentations updated. 30 September 2002 Announcement of book on cross-border crime added. 25 September 2002 Definition from Encyclopaedia Britannica added. 11 September 2002 Links to CIROC and to Georgian Institute of Legal Reform added. Review of Joe Griffin book on the FBI's fight against the Buffalo and Cleveland Cosa Nostra families added. 1 September 2002 Link to Mafia-International site added; dead links to Italian Mob and Global Mafia sites removed. 11 August 2002 OC-Definitions from Australia and Belgium added. 1 July 2002 Link to Research Group Drug Policy, Criminal Policy and International Crime at Ghent University, Belgium, added. 25 June 2002: Review of Mustain and Capeci book on Roy DeMeo crew (New York Cosa Nostra) added. 7 April 2002: English review of Cañon book on Pablo Escobar added. 2 April 2002: OC-definition by Samuel Porteous added. 12 March 2002 Review of Woodiwiss, Organized Crime and American Power, added. 31 Januar 2002 Link to ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime website added. 20 Januar 2002 Review of Black/Vander Beken, Reporting on Organised Crime, added. 15 Januar 2002 Link to OC Agency of British Columbia added. 3 December 2001 English review of Roth, "Der Oligarch" (The Oligarch), added. 11 November 2001 Review of van Duyne et al., "Financial Investigation of Crime", added. 24 October 2001: Link to ICSP Prague added. 28 September 2001: Review of Finckenauer/Voronin book on Russian organized crime added. 19 September 2001: Paper on research project on cigarette black market added. |