Reorganizing crime : mafia and anti-mafia in post-Soviet Georgia /

Through an innovative and engaging analysis of an often misunderstood cohort of organised crime in Georgia, this book explores the resilience of so-called dark networks, such as organised crime groups and terrorist cells, and tests the theories of how and why success in challenging such organisation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slade, Gavin, 1980- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Clarendon studies in criminology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Georgia in 'the understandings'
  • Resilience and the decline of Mafias
  • Thieves-in-law as a Soviet and Post-Soviet Mafia in Georgia
  • Predator vs. predator
  • Organizing and re-organizing crime in Georgia
  • Fitting the frame
  • 'With my body and soul'
  • Maintaining distinction
  • Georgia outside 'the understandings'?