The analysis and containment of organized crime in New York City and beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs

Woodiwiss, Michael

doi:10.1007/s12117-014-9231-y

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“…Building upon these findings, as emphasized by Jacobs (2020), organized crime groups experienced limited law enforcement challenges during the 1920s and 1930s, thanks in part to FBI Director Hoover's refusal to recognize them as a national menace, which contributed to their ongoing existence and expansion. However, it wasn't until after Hoover's death in 1972 that the FBI underwent a transformation, prioritizing the dismantling of Italian-American organized crime families, as noted by Woodiwiss (2015). Harvey (1972) and Castells (2014) both noted the dire consequences of condoning social injustice in impoverished urban neighbourhoods.…”

Section: Justice-based Power Vacuums: a Theoretical Concept To Explor...mentioning

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Crime and violence on the margins of society: How justice‐based power vacuums create deprived neighbourhoods

Cayli Messina

2024

Sociology Compass

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How have crime, conflict, and violence shaped the social structure of neighbourhoods across diverse spatial and temporal landscapes in marginalised urban communities? To address to this central question, this study examines the socio‐political dynamics of New York City and Palermo, as well as the role of authoritarian actors, by juxtaposing different historical periods and contrasting the influences of political institutions with extra‐legal entities such as gangs and mafias. Utilising visual images, archival documents, and geographical mapping, the study introduces the concept of ‘justice‐based power vacuums’. This novel theoretical concept elucidates the mechanisms through which coercive power fosters social environments susceptible to extra‐legal domination, effectively entrapping vulnerable groups, be they ethnic or racial minorities or economically disadvantaged groups. I argue that while crime, conflict, and violence, especially under the auspices of gangs and mafias, often become the focal point, it is the obscured role of political authorities that stands as the genesis of such complex social problems. The present comparative historical social research indicates that recognising and addressing these obscured political influences is essential for a holistic understanding and subsequent mitigation of the structural challenges in urban social life that create deprived neighbourhoods across time and space similarly and perpetuate marginalisation in these communities.

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Crime and violence on the margins of society: How justice‐based power vacuums create deprived neighbourhoods

Cayli Messina

2024

Sociology Compass

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“…The gap in the organized crime literature stems from the evolution of how organized crime is scrutinized. In the 19th and 20th centuries, there was limited comparative empirical research in the field apart from the research on the Italian mafia and the Cosa Nostra in the United States (Marquette and Peiffer 2021;Woodiwiss 2015). The field of organized crime research has grown out of Italian and American mafia studies and hence many concepts and models are fed by "cliché-ridden conceptions of Mafia" (von Lampe 2002).…”

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Beyond Conventional Boundaries

Kupatadze

2023

World Affairs

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According to conventional wisdom, organized criminal activity is perpetrated primarily by non-state, private actors who are occasionally [or not] protected by corrupt government officials. From this perspective, a hard distinction is made between those who provide protection to criminals (e.g., politicians or law enforcement officials) and the criminals themselves (e.g., smugglers or producers of counterfeit goods). It further treats the involvement of state-affiliated actors as a by-product of corruption in public office, rather than, in some places, a feature of it. This article builds on emerging evidence that state representatives play a far more direct role in supervising, organizing and sometimes managing crime than assumed in the majority of the literature. It shows that there are inherent theoretical, policy-level biases that misguide the analytical thinking about organized crime in the Global South, and argues that there is a need to reconsider existing approaches to develop more accommodative definitions of organized crime.

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“…The scientific and theoretical basis of this research grounds on scientific works of the specialists in the fields of economics, philosophy, theory of state and law (Torres, Garrido, 2014), criminal (Mazza, 2019), penal (Nikolaev, 2019) and administrative law (Cleff, Naderer, Volkert, 2011), criminology (Worley, Tewksbury, Frantzen, 2010), and other legal sciences (Worley, Tewksbury, Frantzen, 2010). The logic and content of the article are largely based on the experience of foreign scholars specializing in the implementation of anti-corruption legislation in the penitentiary sphere (Woodiwiss, 2015). The normative base of the research is the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, laws and bylaws of national legislation that regulate the relations in the field of combating corruption.…”

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Counteraction to Corruption Offenses in Penitentiary System (in Memory of Doctor of Law, Professor Nikolay Shchedrin)

Малолеткина

Skiba

Rodionov

2020

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities &Amp; Social Sciences

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The subject of the research is the processes of combating corruption in the penitentiary system of Russia. The purpose of the research is to analyze the legal prerequisites for the emergence of corruption manifestations in the penitentiary system and search for promising areas of legislation improvement in this area. The work is based on the complex application of a number of general and special research methods (structural and functional analysis, comparative-legal, formal-logical, system-structural methods). Domestic and foreign regulations, official data of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, the results of the Russian and foreign scholars’ research serve the information base of the research. The main result of the research is in substantiation of the essential conclusions about the need for a clearer definition of the penitentiary system officials’ powers in order to reduce the risks of committing acts with the signs of corruption. The most significant, regarding the risks of corruption manifestations, spheres of penitentiary system employees’ activity are defined. The directions of law enforcement practice improvement in the sphere under the research are substantiated. The materials of the research can be useful for both scientists-penitentiaries, practitioners and for students, undergraduates and graduate students of the relevant areas of training and specialties in the course of mastering special disciplines

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The analysis and containment of organized crime in New York City and beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs

Cited by 10 publications

References 1 publication

Crime and violence on the margins of society: How justice‐based power vacuums create deprived neighbourhoods

Crime and violence on the margins of society: How justice‐based power vacuums create deprived neighbourhoods

Beyond Conventional Boundaries

Counteraction to Corruption Offenses in Penitentiary System (in Memory of Doctor of Law, Professor Nikolay Shchedrin)

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