Contents: Introduction Part I Introduction: The interdisciplinary dimensions of the study of organized crime, Klaus von Lampe. Part II Ethnicity, Illegal Enterprises and Upward Mobility: Crime as an American way of life: a queer ladder of social mobility, Daniel Bell Strategic decision making in organized crime control: the need for a broadened perspective, Edwin H. Stier and Peter R. Richards. Part III Criminal Organizations as a "Alien Conspiracya (TM): Transnational organized crime: the strange career of an American concept, Michael Woodiwiss. Part IV Business Crime Versus Organized Crime or Business Crimes As Organized Crime: Paragons, pariahs, and pirates: a spectrum-based theory of enterprise, Dwight C. Smith. Part V RICO and Debates Pertaining to the Structure and Purpose of Criminal Groups: Symposium Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: debunking RICOa (TM)s myriad myths, G. Robert Blakey A comparative analysis of organised crime conspiracy legislation and practice and their relevance to England and Wales, Michael Levi and Alaster Smith. Part VI Refinements: 'Less Organized' Criminal Operations and a Focus on Protection/Extortion: The economic consequences of product illegality, Peter Reuter Research on upper level drug trafficking: a review, Frederick Desroches Conspiracy among the many: the Mafia in legitimate industries, Diego Gambetta and Peter Reuter New York City as organized crime fighter, James B. Jacobs and Alex Hortis The paradoxes of organized crime, Letizia Paoli. Part VII Networks and Analysis: The Teamsters, the White House and the Labor Department, Alan A. Block and Sean Patrick Griffin Assessing network patterns in illegal firearm markets, Carlo Morselli Fixers, super fixers and shadow facilitators: how networks connect, Douglas Farah Illuminating dark networks: a social network analysis of an Australian drug trafficking syndicate, David A. Bright, Caitlin E. Hughes and Jenny Chalmers. Part VIII Markets: The rise of two drug tigers: the development of the illegal drugs industry and drug policy failure in Afghanistan and Colombia, Francisco E. Thoumi Organized crime in legitimate sectors of the economy: fact or fiction?, Cyrille Fijnaut, Frank Bovenkerk, Gerben Bruinsma and Henk van de Bunt Green criminology and dirty collar crime, Vincenzo Ruggiero and Nigel South. Part IX A Question of Harm: The end of organised crime in the European Union, Nicholas Dorn Towards a general theory of profit-driven crimes, R.T. Naylor Going down the glocal: the local context of organised crime, Dick Hobbs Illicit globalization: myths, misconceptions, and historical lessons, Peter Andreas Name index.