Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction: Revisiting and Revising Organized Crime

Chapter 2 Welcome to the Gig (Crime) Economy

Chapter 3 Why Smaller/More Flexible Cell-Like Nodes and Networks?

Chapter 4 The Criminogenic Network and Role of Legitimate Financial Institutions

Chapter 5 Overview of the Size of the Problem

Chapter 6 Traditional Organized Crime (e.g., Mafia)

Chapter 7 Historical Overview: A Few Key Concepts

Chapter 8 Japan (i.e., Yakuza)

Chapter 9 Italy (e.g., La Cosa Nostra)

Chapter 10 United States (e.g., Al Capone, the “Five Families”)

Chapter 11 Notes on Ontology of Organized Crime

Chapter 12 Event-Based (i.e., the Study of Criminal Events and Collective Action as the Basis for Conclusions)

Chapter 13 Epistemology and Sources of Knowledge

Chapter 14 Operations and Functioning of Organized Crime Groups

Chapter 15 Transformation of Organized Crime Groups in Theory and Practice

Chapter 16 Organized Crime and New Participants

Chapter 17 Professions and the New Organized Crime: Control

Chapter 18 The Future of Organized Crime

References

About the Author

Index