rganized crime has become one of the major problems facing the modern world. It no longer exists within the boundaries of individual countries; today, primarily because of advances in communication and transportation technology, the organized criminal has become a citizen of the world, unwelcome, but nonetheless there. It is naive to view the phenomenon of organized crime in provincial terms as...

Organized crime in Latin America is undergoing constant and substantial changes, positioning itself as a relevant strategic actor in the hemisphere, reconfiguring geographic borders, penetrating political and social structures, playing a significant role in the economy, and threatening progress in building the state and strengthening democratic systems. Although its manifestations differ from p...

This article addresses the topic of ideologies underlying organized crime using interviews with individuals living in Mafia-affected territories. High school and university students produced narratives that reflected their about crime, which were duly compared endorsed by Mafia members televised interviews. comparison has yielded several similarities, namely presence amoralism, familism, vertic...

Abstract The growing research on co-offending over the life course is based relatively small, general offending samples, followed for a short period, and from limited set of countries. This study expands current knowledge by examining relation with age, criminal experience, crime type, seriousness in large sample Italian serious organized offenders careers spanning between age 14 late adulthood...

Abstract As existing literature on intergenerational continuity of criminal behavior is mainly based data ‘general’ offenders and their children, the current study aims to improve our knowledge by looking at crime among a national sample children organized offenders. Judicial all ( N = 478) convicted in Netherlands (in period 2008 - 2014) were used offspring’s involvement crime. In addition, co...