The Private Sector and Organized Crime

Criminal Entrepreneurship, Illicit Profits, and Private Sector Security Governance
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-05665-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Organised Crime

This book contributes to the literature on organized crime by providing a detailed account of the various nuances of what happens when criminal organizations misuse or penetrate legitimate businesses. It advances the existing scholarship on attacks, infiltration, and capture of legal businesses by organized crime and sheds light on the important role the private sector can play to fight back. It considers a range of industries from bars and restaurants to labour-intensive enterprises such as construction and waste management, to sectors susceptible to illicit activities including transportation, wholesale and retail trade, and businesses controlled by fragmented legislation such as gambling.



Organized criminal groups capitalize on legitimate businesses beleaguered by economic downturns, government regulations, natural disasters, societal conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic. To survive, some private companies have even become the willing partners of criminal organizations. Thus, the relationships between licit businesses and organized crime are highly varied and can range from victimization of businesses to willing collusion and even exploitation of organized crime by the private sector – albeit with arrangements that typically allow plausible deniability. In other words, these relationships are highly diverse and create a complex reality which is the focus of the articles presented here.



This book will appeal to students, academics, and policy practitioners with an interest in organized crime. It will also provide important supplementary reading for undergraduate and graduate courses on topics such as transnational security issues, transnational organized crime, international criminal justice, criminal finance, non-state actors, international affairs, comparative politics, and economics and business courses.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zabyelina, Yuliya

Thachuk, Kimberley L.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Versicherungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Risikobewertung, Risikotheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Theorizing the Linkages between the Private Sector and Organized Crime 2. A Review of Methods in Research on Organized Crime Infiltration of Legitimate Businesses 3. Organized Crime and the Haulage Sector 4. Private Port Authorities and Organized Crime 5. Information Technology and Communications Providers’ Measures against Organized Crime 6. Organized Crime and the Hydrocarbons Industry 7. Trafficking in Persons and the Hotel Industry 8. Organized Crime in the Waste Management Industry 9. Organized Crime in the Fisheries Sector 10. Organized Forest Crimes: Charcoal and Timber Trade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 11. Organized Crime in the Agri-food Industry 12. Organized Crime and the Retail Sector 13. Organized Crime Money Laundering through Online Gambling Businesses in Great Britain 14. Private Art Businesses and Organized Crime 15. Organized Crime and the Pharmaceutical Industry 16. Organized Crime and Tobacco Companies 17. Organized Crime and the Private Security Industry 18. Private Sector Criminal Risk Assessment and Risk Management

Über Autor(innen)

Yuliya Zabyelina is Associate Professor of International Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), USA.

Kimberley L. Thachuk is a senior analyst and educator focusing on transnational security issues, including corruption; organized crime and terrorism; human, drug, and arms trafficking; and environment, health, and energy.