The Private Sector and Organized Crime: Criminal Entrepreneurship, Illicit Profits, and Private Sector...

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Yuliya Zabyelina Kimberley L. Thachuk

The Private Sector and Organized Crime

Criminal Entrepreneurship, Illicit Profits, and Private Sector Security Governance

Yuliya Zabyelina, Kimberley L. Thachuk

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English

Routledge
26 August 2024

True crime; Risk assessment; Crime & criminology; Insurance & actuarial studies; Business ethics

Series: 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.

Edited by: Yuliya Zabyelina, Kimberley L. Thachuk
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032056654
ISBN 10: 1032056657
Series: Routledge Studies in Organised Crime
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.