Publications and Presentationsby Klaus von Lampe
Articles
Organized Crime in Europe: Conceptions and Realities, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 2(1), 2008, 7-17
Introduction to the special issue on interviewing 'organized criminals', Trends in Organized Crime, 11(1), 2008, 1-4
The German underworld and the Ringvereine from the 1890s through the 1950s (co-author: Arthur Hartmann), Global Crime, 9(1&2), 2008, 108-135
The Interdisciplinary Dimensions of the Study of Organized Crime, Trends in Organized Crime, 9(3), 2006, 77-95 (manuscript in PDF)
The cigarette black market in Germany and in the United Kingdom, Journal of Financial Crime, 13(2), 2006, 235-254 (manuscript in PDF)
Making the second step before the first: Assessing organized crime - The case of Germany, Crime, Law & Social Change, 42(4+5), 2005, 227-259
Organised Crime and Trust: On the conceptualization and empirical relevance of trust in the context of criminal networks (co-author: Per Ole Johansen), Global Crime, 6(2), 2004, 159-184
Assessing Organized Crime: The Case of Germany, ECPR SG Organised Crime eNewsletter OC, No. 3, September 2002 (PDF)
Not a Process of Enlightenment: The Conceptual History of Organized Crime in Germany and the United States of America, Forum on Crime and Society, 1(2), 2001, 99-116 (PDF)
Organisierte Kriminalität unter der Lupe: Netzwerke kriminell nutzbarer Kontakte als konzeptueller Zugang zur OK-Problematik [Organized crime under the magnifying glass: networks of criminally exploitable ties as a conceptual approach to the OC-problem], Kriminalistik, 55(7), 2001, 465-471
Einige Anmerkungen zur politischen Stellung der Wissenschaftler im System der DDR - Interessenartikulation und Interessendurchsetzung am Beispiel der Gentechnik [Some remarks on the political position of scientists in the GDR-system: articulation of interests and goal achievement, the case of genetic engineering], hochschule ost, Mai/Juni 1995, 86-93
Die Gentechnik-Diskussion in der DDR - Ein Fallbeispiel zum Spielraum ungelenkter Öffentlichkeit in der Vor-Wende-Zeit [The debate on genetic engineering in the GDR: A case study of the scope of uncontrolled public discourse in the pre-transitional period], deutsche studien Nr. 121, April 1994, 75-94
Books and book chapters
Criminals are not alone: Some observations on the social microcosm of illegal entrepreneurs, in: Petrus C. van Duyne, Almir Maljevic, Maarten van Dijck, Klaus von Lampe, Jackie Harvey (eds.), Crime Business and Crime Money in Europe: The Dirty Linen of Illicit Enterprise, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2007, 131-155
Organised Crime is... Findings from a cross-national review of literature (co-authors: Maarten van Dijck, Rob Hornsby, Anna Markina, Karen Verpoest), in: Petrus van Duyne, Almir Maljevic, Maarten van Dijck, Klaus von Lampe, James Newell (eds.), The Organisation of Crime for Profit: Conduct, Law and Measurement, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2006, 17-42
Gewaltandrohung und Gewaltanwendung im Kontext organisierter Kriminalität (The threat and use of violence in the context of organized crime), in: Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Monika Schröttle (eds.), Gewalt: Beschreibungen, Analysen, Prävention, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2006, 412-421
Explaining the emergence of the cigarette black market in Germany, in: Petrus van Duyne, Klaus von Lampe, Maarten van Dijck, James Newell (eds.), The Organised Crime Economy: Managing Crime Markets in Europe, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2005, 209-229 (PDF)
Organized Crime in Europe, in: Philip Reichel (ed.), Handbook of Transnational Crime & Justice, Thousand Oaks, CA, et al.: Sage Publications, 2005, 403-424
Measuring Organised Crime: A Critique of Current Approaches, in: Petrus van Duyne, Matjaz Jager, Klaus von Lampe, James Newell (eds.), Threats and Phantoms of Organised Crime, Corruption and Terrorism: Critical European Perspectives, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2004, 85-116 (PDF)
Criminal Networks and Trust: On the importance of the expectation of loyal behavior in criminal relations (co-author: Per Ole Johansen), in: Semi Nevala, Kauko Aromaa (eds.), Organised Crime, Trafficking, Drugs: Selected papers presented at the Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Helsinki 2003, Helsinki: HEUNI, 2004, 102-113 (PDF)
Criminally Exploitable Ties: A Network Approach to Organized Crime, in: Emilio C. Viano, José Magallanes, Laurent Bidel (eds.), Transnational Organized Crime: Myth, Power and Profit, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2003, 9-22
Organising the nicotine racket: Patterns of criminal cooperation in the cigarette black market in Germany, in: Petrus C. van Duyne, Klaus von Lampe, James L. Newell (eds.), Criminal Finances and Organising Crime in Europe, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2003, 41-65 (PDF)
Afterword: Organized Crime Research in Perspective, in: Petrus C. van Duyne, Klaus von Lampe, Nikos Passas (eds.), Upperworld and Underworld in Cross-Border Crime, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2002, 189-198 (PDF)
The trafficking in untaxed cigarettes in Germany: A case study of the social embeddedness of illegal markets, in: Petrus C. van Duyne, Klaus von Lampe, Nikos Passas (eds.), Upperworld and Underworld in Cross-Border Crime, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2002, 141-161 (PDF)
Organized Crime: Begriff und Theorie organisierter Kriminalität in den USA [Organized crime: concept and theory of organized crime in the USA], Frankfurt am Main: Lang, Frankfurter kriminalwissenschaftliche Studien 67, 1999
Reviews and review essays
Frederick J. Desroches, The crime that pays: drug trafficking and organized crime in Canada, in: Trends in Organized Crime 10(3), 2007, 131-134
Greg B. Smith, Made Men: The True Rise-and-Fall-Story of a New Jersey Mob Family, in: Trends in Organized Crime, 10(2), 2006, 108-109
Donald R. Liddick, The Global Underworld: Transnational Crime and the United States, in: Global Crime, 7(1), 2006, 141-143
Letizia Paoli, Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style, in: International Criminal Justice Review, 16(1), 2006, 65-67
Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, in: ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime Newsletter, 5(1), 2006, 9-10 (PDF)
R.T. Naylor, Wages of Crime, in: Global Crime, 6(3-4), 2004, 421-423
Sean Patrick Griffin, Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia', in: ECPR SG Organised Crime eNewsletter OC, May 2004
Damián Zaitch, Trafficking Cocaine, in: ECPR SG Organised Crime eNewsletter OC, January 2003
Michael Woodiwiss, Organized Crime and American Power, ECPR SG Organised Crime eNewsletter OC, May 2002
Jürgen Roth, Der Oligarch, ECPR SG Organised Crime eNewsletter OC, January 2002
Stanley Einstein and Menachem Amir (eds.), Organized Crime: Uncertainties and Dilemmas, ECPR SG Organised Crime eNewsletter OC, January 2002
Mafia global - Neuere englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen zum Thema organisierte Kriminalität [Mafia goes global: recent English language publications on organized crime](review essay including S. Adamoli et al., Organised Crime Around the World, St. Einstein/M. Amir (eds.), Organized Crime: Uncertainties and Dilemmas; J.O. Finckenauer/E. Waring, Russian Mafia in America; J.B. Jacobs, Gotham Unbound), Kriminologisches Journal, 33(1), 2001, 73-76
Recent German Publications on Organized Crime (review essay including Chr. Mayerhofer/J.-M. Jehle, eds., Organisierte Kriminalität; U. Sieber, eds., Internationale Organisierte Kriminalität; W. Flormann, Heimliche Unterwanderung; P. Sehr, Internationale Kraftfahrzeugverschiebung; P. Wamers, Illegaler Technologietransfer; W. Wegner, 'Balkan-Route' Contra 'Seidenstraße'; P. Krevert, Schutzgelderpressung; H. Lemmel, Kosovo-Albaner in Deutschland; W. Raith, Das neue Mafia-Kartell; J. Roth, Die Russen Mafia), Criminal Organizations, 12(1&2), 1998, 37-39
Der lange Abschied vom Mafia-Paradigma - Neue Veröffentlichungen der organized-crime-Forschung [The long farewell to the Mafia-paradigm: recent publications of organized crime research] (review essay including H. Abadinsky, Organized Crime; D. Kenney/J. Finckenauer, Organized Crime in America; R. Kelly/K. Chin/R. Schatzberg, eds., Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States; J. Albanese, ed., Contemporary Issues in Organized Crime; G. Potter, Criminal Organizations), Kriminologisches Journal, 27(4), 1995, 298-302
Organisierte Kriminalität [Organized Crime] (review essay including G. Kaiser, Kriminologie; H.-J. Kerner in: Kleines Kriminologisches Wörterbuch; H.-D. Schwind, Kriminologie; H. J. Schneider, Einführung in die Kriminologie), Bürgerrechte & Polizei (Cilip) Nr. 47, 1/1994, 94-95
Reports
Proposal for a Common European Approach to Assess Organised Crime, Assessing Organised Crime project, Deliverable 22, 30 November 2005 (PDF)
Provisional situation report on trafficking in contraband cigarettes, Assessing Organised Crime project, Deliverable 18, 29 July 2005 (PDF)
(excerpts published in: Trends in Organized Crime, 9(2), 2005, 8-15)
Critical Review of Conceptual Approaches, Assessing Organised Crime project, Deliverable 04, 30 December 2004 (PDF)
Critical Review of Existing Data, Assessing Organised Crime project, Deliverable 05, 30 December 2004 (PDF)
Presentations (selection)
Key Concepts for Understanding Organized Crime in Europe, presentation at the FLARE (Freedom, Legality and Rights in Europe) conference, Brussels, European Parliament, June 2008
An Introduction to the Concept of Organized Crime, three-part lecture at the Norwegian Police University College, Organised Crime Specialist Detective Programme, Oslo, Norway, May 2008
Organised Crime Situation Reports and the Philosophy of NECA, presentation at the Research advisory roundtable forum 'Enhanced Responses to Organised Crime in the SARPCCO region - the EROC Project', Institute for Security Studies, Cape Town, South Africa, April 2008
Perspectives in Criminal Network Analysis, Introduction to the 7th Blankensee Colloquium 'Human Capital and Social Capital in Criminal Networks', Berlin, February 2008
Organisierte Kriminalität in Europa: Ein systematischer Überblick aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Sicht [Organized crime in Europe: A systematic overview from a social science perspective], keynote address, conference "Deutschland - Zentrum der organisierten Kriminalität in Europa?" (Germany: Center of organized crime in Europe?), sponsored by Karl-Arnold Stiftung, Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter, and Thomas Morus Akademie, Bensberg, Germany, December 2007
Power Structures within Berlin's Underworld from the 1840s to the Present Time (co-author: Arthur Hartmann), presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), Atlanta, Georgia, November 2007
Organized Crime Analysis and the Art of Model Construction, keynote address, Global Futures Forum, Community of Interest on Illicit Trafficking, Meech Lake, Canada, October 2007
Researching organised crime: development and stagnation, presentation at the 9th Cross-border Crime Colloqium, Prague, Czech Republic, October 2007
The German Underworld and the Ringvereine from the 1890s through the 1950s, paper (co-author: Arthur Hartmann) presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology (ESC), Bologna, Italy, September 2007
The Limits of Criminogenic Asymmetries for Explaining Cross-Border Crime: The Case of Cigarette Smuggling, presentation at the workshop "Surveillance and Border Control in the Caucasus", Tbilisi, Georgia, September 2007
Measuring the Unmeasurable: Organised Crime Situation Reports, presentation at the 4th conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Pisa, Italy, September 2007
Organisierte Kriminalität als Gegenstand sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung [Organized crime as an object of social science research], presentation at the Colloquium on Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute for Forensic Psychiatry, Charité Berlin, Germany, July 2007
The Study of Organized Crime: An Assessment of the State of Affairs, presentation at the Day Seminar on Organized Crime, Institute of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway, May 2007
OK aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Sicht: Konzeptueller Bezugsrahmen, internationale Fallbeispiele, Theorieansätze (OC from a social science perspective: conceptual framework, international case studies, and theoretical approaches), presentation at the conference "Unfassbare" Kriminalität und ihre wirksame Bekämpfung, Katholische Akademie Trier, Germany, May 2007
Lageeinschätzung Organisierter Kriminalität: Kritische Würdigung unterschiedlicher Ansätze zur OK-Beurteilung und die Philosophie des "New European Common Approach, NECA" [Assessing Organized Crime: Critical appraisal of different approaches and the philosophy of the New European Common Approach, NECA], presentation at the conference "Unfassbare" Kriminalität und ihre wirksame Bekämpfung, Katholische Akademie Trier, Germany, May 2007
Organized Crime as an Object of Study for the Social Sciences, guest lecture at the Law Faculty, University of Belgrade, Serbia, April 2007
Ursachen 'Organisierter Kriminalität' [Causes of 'organized crime'], guest lecture at the Deutsche Hochschule für Polizei (German national police academy), Münster-Hiltrup, Germany, March 2007
Organized Crime Research in Europe, presentation at the Institute of Criminology and the Sociology of Law at Oslo University, Norway, February 2007
Practical Implications of the New European Common Approach (NECA), presentation at the IKOC/AOC Joint Conference 'Knowledge on crime in the EU', Brussels, Belgium, December 2006
The New European Common Approach to Assessing Organised Crime (NECA): An Outline, presentation at the IKOC/AOC Joint Conference 'Knowledge on crime in the EU', Brussels, Belgium, December 2006
Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und strategische Kriminalanalyse im Bereich Organisierte Kriminalität [Social science research and strategic crime analysis in the area of organized crime], presentation at the Dahlem Business Talks, Freie Universität Berlin, November 2006
Developmental Trends in an Emerging Illegal Market: The Case of Contraband Cigarettes in Germany, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, November 2006
Eine Einführung in die Soziologie organisierter Kriminalität [An introduction to the sociology of organized crime], presentation at the 4th annual congress on combating money laundering, Kongresshotel am Templiner See, Potsdam, Germany, September 2006
Developmental Trends in the Structure of Illegal Enterprises, contribution to the workshop 'The Business of Crime' at the 24th International Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK, September 2006
The AOC-Project: Towards a new Common European Approach for Assessing Organised Crime, paper presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Tübingen, Germany, August 2006
Illegal Enterprise Structures in the Cigarette Black Market in Germany, paper presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Tübingen, Germany, August 2006
Organisierte Kriminalität als Forschungsgegenstand: Missverständnisse, Erkenntnisse und offene Fragen (Organized crime as an object of research: misunderstandings, findings, and open questions), contribution to the expert talk OC, Polizei-Führungsakademie (National Police Academy), Münster, Germany, August 2006
Criminals do not stand alone: Crime-entrepreneurs and their social environment, paper presented at the 8th Colloquium on Cross-Border Crime, Tallinn, Estonia, May 2006
An introduction to the concept and theory of organized crime, lecture at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faculty of Criminal Justice Sciences, Masters Program in European Criminology, Criminalistics and Criminal Justice, May 2006
Organized Crime in Europe: Conceptions and Realities, presentation before the Norwegian Consortium for Research on Terrorism and International Crime, The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway, March 2006
Analyzing and Assessing Organized Crime, lecture at the Norwegian Police University College, Organised Crime Specialist Detective Programme, Oslo, Norway, March 2006
What is Organized Crime?, lecture at the Norwegian Police University College, Organised Crime Specialist Detective Programme, Oslo, Norway, March 2006
Introducing Project AOC: Assessing Organized Crime, contribution to the EU Forum on the Prevention of Organised Crime, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, 7 February 2006
Beg, Steal or Borrow: The Study of Organized Crime and the Infusion of Concepts and Theories from Other Disciplines, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), Toronto, Canada, November 2005 (PDF)
The AOC Project: Towards a New European Approach for Assessing Organized Crime, paper presented at the 7th Colloquium on Cross-Border Crime, Faculty of Criminal Justice Science, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, October 2005
The Cigarette Black Market in Germany and the United Kingdom, paper presented at the 23rd International Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK, September 2005
Organisierte Kriminalität: Begriff, Erscheinungsformen und Bekämpfungsansätze [Organized crime: concept, manifestations, countermeasures], contribution to the Latvian-German seminar "Europäisches und deutsches Wirtschaftsstrafrecht" [European and German business criminal law], Humboldt University Berlin, August 2005
Organisierte Kriminalität als Gegenstand sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung [Organized crime as an object of social science research], paper presented at the conference 'Organisierte Kriminalität und die Unterwanderung legaler Märkte' [Organized crime and the infiltration of legal markets], sponsored by the European Science Days and the Austrian federal police agency Bundeskriminalamt, Vienna, Austria, May 2005
Assessing Organized Crime: Principles of Intelligence Analysis from a Social Science Perspective, contribution to the "In-Country Workshops on Analysis of the Economic and Organised Crime Situation", organized by the Council of Europe, in Tirana, Albania, and Pristina, Kosovo, September 2004
Customs and Money Laundering, paper presented at the 22nd International Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK, September 2004
Explaining the emergence of an illegal market: the case of untaxed cigarettes, paper presented at the 6th Colloqium on Cross-Border Crime, Berlin, September 2004
The Dynamics and Anatomy of an Emerging Illegal Market: The Case of the Cigarette Black Market in Germany in the 1990s, paper presented at the Stockholm International Symposium on Economic Crime, sponsored by the Swedish National Economic Crimes Bureau and the Jönköping International Business School, Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, December 2003
The Use of Models in the Study of Organized Crime, paper presented at the 2nd conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Marburg, Germany, September 2003 (PDF)
Criminal Networks and Trust, paper (co-author: Per Ole Johansen) presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology (ESC), Helsinki, Finland, August 2003
Is There Honor Among Crooks? On the Importance of Trust in Criminal Relations, paper (co-author: Per Ole Johansen) presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November 2002
Measuring Organized Crime, paper presented at the 4th Colloquium on Cross-Border Crime, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2002
Assessing the state of organized crime in Germany, paper presented at the second annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology, Toledo, Spain, September 2002
Der illegale Zigarettenhandel als Fallbeispiel Organisierter Kriminalität [The illegal cigarette trade as an example of organized crime], Contribution to the seminar 'Bekämpfung der Organisierten Kriminalität in einem Europa offener Grenzen' [Combating organized crime in a Europe of open borders], Polizei-Führungsakademie [Police Leadership Academy] Münster, Germany, 27-29 May 2002
Organizing the Nicotine Racket: Patterns of Criminal Cooperation in the Cigarette Black Market in Germany, paper presented at the Third Colloquium on Cross-Border Crime, Bratislava, Slovakia, October 2001
The Illegal Cigarette Market in Germany: A Case Study of Organized Crime, paper presented at the first annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2001
The Trafficking in Untaxed Cigarettes in Germany: A Case Study of the Social Embeddedness of Illegal Markets, paper presented at the Budapest Colloquium on Cross-border Mobility of Crime-economy and Human Resources, National Institute of Criminology (OKRI), Budapest, Hungary, September 2000
The Concept of Organized Crime in Historical Perspective, paper presented at the conference 'Crime organisé international: Mythe, pouvoir, profit...', University of Lausanne, Switzerland, October 1999
The Nicotine Racket - The Trafficking in Untaxed Cigarettes: A Case Study of Organized Crime in Germany, guest lecture given at the Institute of Criminology at Oslo University, Norway, May 1999
Understanding Organized Crime: A German View, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston, March 1995 (PDF)