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Countries undergoing major social and legal transitions typically experience a light, but relatively insignificant, increase in crime. However, in the past decade, many transitional countries in Eastern Europe, and Russia in particular, have experienced a surge in criminal activities that came about through the collaboration of diverse players-such as criminals, state officials, businesspersons, and law enforcement-into organized networks aimed to obtain financial and economic gains.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter I. Introduction
Definitions of Organized Crime (OC), Russian Organized Crime, and Organized Corruption Network (OCN). Organization of the Book
Chapter II. Roots of Russian Organized Crime
2.1 Development of Criminal Professionals 16th 19th Century
2.2 Soviet Period: the vory v zakone in 1920s-1990s
2.3 Gorbachev s Economic and Social Reforms
2.4 The End of 90 s - 2008 (OC-OCN) (2 Figures of OC)
2.5 Transformation and Adaptation
Chapter III. Organized Crime, Businesses, and Local Bureaucracy
3.1 Features of the Russian Organized Crime
3.2 Social and Legal Causes of the Economy Criminalization
3.3 Regional Organized Crime Groups (Profiles; 2 Figures)
3.4 Turf Wars
Chapter IV. Corruption in the Government: the Origins and Tendency
4.1 The Soviet Roots of Corruption: Social and Historic Phenomenon
4.2 Transitional Period: Stages, Tendency, and Development
4.3 Factors Promoting Corruption (Anticorruption legislation)
4.4 Corruption and Public service
Chapter V. Organized Corruption Networks
5.1 Corruption and Organized Crime Diffusion into the System of Civil Service
5.2 Types, Forms and Methods of the OCN Control Over Territories, Enterprises, and the Economy (OCN Definition, Distinction from Criminal Network, Structure, Figures)
5.3 Cases of Corruption
Chapter VI. Ways to Fight OCN: Law Enforcement Services
6.1 Structure and Legislation
6. 2 Criminal Code and Law Enforcements in Combating OCN
Chapter VII. The International Reach
7.1 Comparative Dimensions of Russian Organized Corruption Networks
7.2 Implications for the Future
Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Serguei Cheloukhine is an Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. His areas of expertise are Property Rights, Corrupt Networks, Organized Crime, Money Laundering and Terrorism (Russia and Eastern Europe). He was a Professor and the Department of Social Sciences Chairperson at the Rostov-on-Don Law School for ten years. Studying Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption in Russia, led him to the Nathanson Center for the Study of Organized and Corruption, York University in Canada where Serguei worked as researcher and finished his PhD
Zusammenfassung
This book addresses fundamental changes that have taken place in Russia in the last five to seven years, including increasing crime in the economy and the shift of power from organized crime and mafia-like organizations to the Organized Corruption Networks.
