Contents
1. Introduction to the concept and initial issues – 1.1 Nature and power of the rhetoric of organized crime – 1.2. The creation and use of concepts. – 1.3. Defined by disciplines – 1.4. Regulating morality – 1.5. Defining organized crime: where the problem lies – 1.6. Measuring the size or impact of organized crime – 1.7. Linkages between the legal and illegal economies – 1.8. Linkages between economic regulation and criminal law. – 1.9. The old paradigm – 2. The 1967 President’s Crime Commission and the debates – 2.1. The critics – 2.2. Early understandings of organized crime in Canada – 2.3. Further developments in Canada – 2.4. Lessons from the past – 2.5. Emerging critiques: counter paradigms –
3. The social fabric – 3.1. Dealing with stereotypes and ‘perfect’ organized crime models – 3.2. Joseph Albini’s contribution – 3.3. "Loose criminals": the Union Corse and the French Connection heroin route – 3.4. Enter the economists – 3.5. Peter Reuter: the ‘disorganized’ concept. – 3.6. Research into drug economies – 3.7. The changing nature of the Mafia mystique: the Arlacchi and Gambetta debate – 3.8. Regulating criminal exchanges – 3.9. Theoretical framework to a new paradigm – 4. Regulating criminal exchanges – 4.1. Economic regulation vs the criminal law – 4.2. Offenders or offenses: the problem with the collective – 4.3. Classes of criminals – 4.4. Criminal exchanges: a typology – 4.5. Distribution of the proceeds: Karl Polyani – 4.6. Implications of the four-fold distinction –
5. Enforcement and legislative responses – 5.1. Canadian legislative reasoning: a focus on the ‘proceeds’ – 5.2. The issue of the proceeds of crime – 5.3. Policing organized crime – 5.4. Relationships between sectors of the criminal justice system – 5.5. Unanticipated consequences of policing strategies and legislation – 5.6. The ‘Anti-Gang’ legislation – 5.7. Concluding discussions.