2009
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azn054
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Organized Evil and the Atlantic Alliance: Moral Panics and the Rhetoric of Organized Crime Policing in America and Britain

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

0
41
0

Year Published

2013
2013
2021
2021

Publication Types

Select...
5
3

Relationship

0
8

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 76 publications
(41 citation statements)
references
References 8 publications
0
41
0
Order By: Relevance
“…When looking at early research on organised crime in the UK, it could be argued that the current resolution on establishing and conquering a space for 'organised crime' at the Government level comes as a counter image of those years when researchers and policy makers were less inclined to subscribe to the concept of 'organised crime' when describing the UK (Levi, 2004). On the other side, in the past years organised crime has become a policy label in the UK (Sergi, 2014a;2015a), in the form of a peculiar national security issue (Campbell, 2014;Woodiwiss and Hobbs, 2009;Home Office, 2010;Home Office, 2013) characterised by both a focus on local criminal networks and strategies to counter serious crimes at a national level (Home Office, 2013;Campbell, 2014;Sergi, 2015a). On a general note, it…”
Section: The Narrative Perspective: Organised Crime Between Criminal mentioning
confidence: 99%
See 2 more Smart Citations
“…When looking at early research on organised crime in the UK, it could be argued that the current resolution on establishing and conquering a space for 'organised crime' at the Government level comes as a counter image of those years when researchers and policy makers were less inclined to subscribe to the concept of 'organised crime' when describing the UK (Levi, 2004). On the other side, in the past years organised crime has become a policy label in the UK (Sergi, 2014a;2015a), in the form of a peculiar national security issue (Campbell, 2014;Woodiwiss and Hobbs, 2009;Home Office, 2010;Home Office, 2013) characterised by both a focus on local criminal networks and strategies to counter serious crimes at a national level (Home Office, 2013;Campbell, 2014;Sergi, 2015a). On a general note, it…”
Section: The Narrative Perspective: Organised Crime Between Criminal mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The term 'organised crime' in public and political debates was introduced only in 1994 (Home Affairs Committee, 1994), also following a more general tendency of those years to classify organised crime as a 'hot topic all over the world' (Paoli, 2002:51). Across the 1990s very diverse practices, with drug trafficking in first position, started merging within a newly born criminal category -organised crime -mainly following political and public discourses popular in the USA (Woodiwiss and Hobbs, 2009). By the 2000s organised crime in the UK had become a 'high profile policy concern' (Hobbs and Hobbs, 2012:251) not necessarily backed up by reliable data and innovative research (Gregory, 2003).…”
Section: The Evolution Perspective: the Inability Of The Law To Matchmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…Mediated images of OC also play a role in shaping public perceptions of this specific criminal phenomenon (Woodiwiss and Hobbs 2009;Young and Allum 2012;Savona 2013;Sarno 2014), which is hardly covered by other sources of information (Hall et al 1978). This seems to be particularly the case for the press.…”
Section: Media Representations Of Organized Crimementioning
confidence: 99%
“…21 In the US context, internal security is defined as 'homeland security', and the latter is to be pursued via 'smart border management' (control of undocumented migration and illegal overstayers) and achieved through the disjunction between police cooperation and judiciary cooperation (De Capitani 2012). Significantly, the criminological discourse in the USA resonates with legacies from the past: the concept of organised crime harks back to the theorizing of an 'alien conspiracy', epitomised in the work proposed by David Cressey in the late 1960s, in a report to President Johnson (Woodiwiss and Hobbs 2009). This report, which echoed the alarmist media representations of morally deviant and politically dangerous migrants, contains the foundations of the idea that the fight against organised crime is a fight for national security against foreign invasions.…”
Section: Legacies Of the Alien Conspiracy: The Us Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%