The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime delivers a systematic, high-quality, and truly global approach to the topic and with it a more complete understanding of organized crime in its many forms for researchers, government officials, and policymakers.

List of Contributors Introduction Letizia Paoli Part I Concept, Theories, History, and Research Methods 1. Organized Crime: A Contested Concept Letizia Paoli and Tom Vander Beken 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Organized Crime Edward R. Kleemans 3. Searching for Organized Crime in History Cyrille Fijnaut 4. How to Research Organized Crime Dick Hobbs and Georgios A. Antonopoulos Part II Actors and Interactions 5. The Italian Mafia Letizia Paoli 6. The Italian-American Mafia Jay S. Albanese 7. The Russian Mafia: Rise and Extincion Vadim Volkov 8. Organized Crime in Colombia: The Actors Running the Illegal Drug Industry Francisco E. Thoumi 9. Mexican Drug "Cartels" Monica Medel and Francisco E. Thoumi 10. Chinese Organized Crime Ko Lin-Chin 11. The Japanese Yakuza Peter Hill 12. Nigerian Criminal Organizations Phil Willliams 13. Gangs: Another Form of Organized Crime? Scott H. Decker and David C. Pyrooz 14. Opportunistic Structures of Organized Crime Martin Bouchard and Carlo Morselli 15. Organizing Crime: The State as Agent Susanne Karstedt 16. The Social Embeddedness of Organized Crime Henk van de Bunt, Dina Siegel, and Damián Zaitch Part III Markets and Activities 17. Protection and Extortion Federico Varese 18. Drug Markets and Organized Crime Peter Reuter 19. Human Smuggling, Human Trafficking, and Exploitation in the Sex Industry Edward R. Kleemans and Monika Smit 20. Illegal Gambling Toine Spapens 21. Money Laundering Michael Levi 22. Arms Trafficking Andrew Feinstein and Paul Holden 23. Organized Fraud Michael Levi 24. Cybercrime Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Peter Grabosky 25. The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources Tim Boekhout van Solinge Part IV Policies to Control Organized Crime 26. Organized Crime Control in the United States of America James B. Jacobs and Elizabeth Dondlinger Wyman 27. U.S. Organized Crime Control Policies Exported Abroad Margaret Beare and Michael Woodiwiss 28. European Union Organized Crime Control Policies Cyrille Fijnaut 29. The Fight against the Mafia in Italy Antonio La Spina 30. Organized Crime Control in Australia and New Zealand Julie Ayling and Roderic Broadhurst 31. Organized Crime "Control" in Asia: Experiences from India, China, and the Golden Triangle Roderic Broadhurst and Nicholas Farrelly 32. Finance-Oriented Strategies of Organized Crime Control Michael Kilchling Index

Selling point: Takes a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of organized crime with contributions from leading scholars in various social science fields Selling point: Covers the main players in international crime, including both the Italian and Russian Mafias as well as the Yakuza Selling point: Everything from protection and extortion to drug, arms, and human trafficking to cyber crime is explored in-depth in individual chapters

Letizia Paoli is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leuven Faculty of Law, Belgium. She is the author of Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime Italian Style, coauthor (with Victoria A. Greenfield and Peter Reuter) of The World Heroin Market: Can Heroin Supply Be Cut? and (with Alessandro Donati) of The Sports Doping Market: Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control, and coeditor (with Cyrille Fijnaut) of Organised Crime in Europe.

Selling point: Takes a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of organized crime with contributions from leading scholars in various social science fields Selling point: Covers the main players in international crime, including both the Italian and Russian Mafias as well as the Yakuza Selling point: Everything from protection and extortion to drug, arms, and human trafficking to cyber crime is explored in-depth in individual chapters