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Recent Publications

Klaus von Lampe, Organized Crime in Europe: Conceptions and Realities, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 2(1), 2008, 7-17

Arthur Hartmann and Klaus von Lampe, The German underworld and the Ringvereine from the 1890s through the 1950s, Global Crime, 9(1&2), 2008, 108-135

Klaus von Lampe, The Interdisciplinary Dimensions of the Study of Organized Crime, Trends in Organized Crime, 9(3), 2006, 77-95 (manuscript in PDF)

About this site

This website presents information on organized crime from a social science perspective with a special geographical focus on the U.S. and Germany.

The site was first launched in 1999. The original purpose had been to share with a broader public some of the material collected for a doctoral dissertation on the concept and theory of organized crime in the U.S. The material includes, for example, a collection of organized crime definitions which has been considerably expanded over the years. A number of papers on organized-crime related subjects, including cigarette smuggling, have also consecutively been added and are available for downloading.

A more recent addition is the book-review section which features reviews of books on organized crime and related topics.

This site is bilingual (English and German). Some content, however, is available only in one of these two languages.

The material presented on this website may be used for academic, journalistic and official purposes in accordance with the applicable copyright laws. Please identify the source as 'Klaus von Lampe, Organized Crime Research (kvl-homepage), www.organized-crime.de'.

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Definitions

Perhaps the largest collection of more than 150 different definitions of organized crime provides an overview of the diverse conceptions existing worldwide.
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Bookreviews

More than 50 academic and journalistic books on organized crime and related topics, addressing different events, persons and structures in various countries, are reviewed from an organized crime researcher's perspective. The overriding question always is: What does the particular book contribute to a better understanding of organized crime?
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Papers

Papers on various aspects of organized crime (conceptual history, trust and organized crime, use of models in the analysis of organized crime, assessing organized crime, cigarette smuggling, etc.) can be downloaded from the Publications Page.
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Links

Useful links to academic, official and journalistic websites.
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Klaus von Lampe

This website is presented by Klaus von Lampe, assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York.
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4 June 2010

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Books

Crime, money and criminal mobility in Europe
Petrus C. van Duyne et al. (eds.), 2009. More...

European crime-markets at cross-roads: Extended and extending criminal Europe, Petrus C. van Duyne et al. (eds.), 2008. More...

Crime Business and Crime Money in Europe, Petrus C. van Duyne et al. (eds.), 2007. More...

The Organisation of Crime for Profit: Conduct, Law and Measurement, Petrus C. van Duyne et al. (eds.), 2006. More...

The Organised Crime Economy: Managing Crime Markets in Europe, Petrus C. van Duyne et al. (eds.), 2005. More...

Other books from the Cross-border Crime Colloquium series. More...

Klaus von Lampe, Organized Crime: Begriff und Theorie organisierter Kriminalität in den USA, 1999. More...

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