ERC Advanced Grant · 2020
Production, Trade and Governance: a New Framework for the Understanding of Organized Crime
There is a consensus that organized crime (OC) is harmful and its profits are immense. Yet the concept of OC itself lumps together people engaging in very different activities—from peasants in Colombia to professional enablers in London to mafias in Italy—, and the data used by scholars are generally of poor quality. We are in urgent need to establish this field of study on solid analytical grounds and to produce good data. CRIMGOV is designed to do precisely that. We first present a framework that distinguishes three key activities of OC groups: Production, Trade and Governance. We will ask: How do groups engaged in (criminal) Production, Trade or Governance differ from each other? Do they…
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