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Crime as the Defining Problem: Voices of Another Criminology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Louise Shelley*
Affiliation:
School of International Service at American University

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Major advances in crime research in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet bloc and parts of Asia focus on crime commission as the defining problem for political and economic development. Prominent economists, political scientists, lawyers, and even public health specialists in developing and transitional countries examine the impact of large scale victimization, a globalized illicit economy, and of democratic transitions derailed by institutionalized corruption and organized crime penetration into the state.

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Copyright © 2001 International Society for Criminology

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(8) Ibid., pp. 343-44.

(9) Ibid, p. 248.

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(21) Ibid, p. 264.

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(30) See for example Pino Arlacchi, Mafia Business The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, London, Verson, 1986; Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of Private Protection, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1993.

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(35) B.V. Volzhenkin, Sluzhebnye Prestupleniia (Official Crime), Moscow, Iurist, 2000; Yuriy A. Voronin, «The Emerging Criminal State : Economic and Political Aspects of Organized Crime in Russia », in Phil Williams (ed), Russian Organized Crime : The New Threat, London, Frank Cass, 1997, pp. 53-55.

(36) Phongpaichit et. al., pp. 262-4.