Present at the Creation of Organized Crime Control Efforts

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel's focus is organized crime and its control. It consists of the reflections of four partitioners and analysts who were present at the creation of organised crime control policies in the United States and Europe. Frederick Martens, former Director of the Pennsylvania Crime Commission; Dwight Smith, author of The Mafia Mystique; James Jacobs, Director of the New York University Center for Research in Crime and Justice; and Cyrille Fijnaut, co-editor of Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Control Policies in the European Union and Beyond.

Sub Unit

• Area IV. Criminal Justice Policy and Practice / 39. Policing and Law Enforcement

Individual Presentations

• Fifty years fighting organized crime and corruption: an interview with Frederick Martens - Frederick Martens, Pennsylvania Crime Commission

• Enterprise not Ethnicity: an interview with Dwight C. Smith jr. - Dwight C. Smith, Independent Researcher

• The Analysis and Containment of Organized Crime In New York City and Beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs - James B. Jacobs, New York University

• The Analysis and Containment of Organized Crime in Europe: an interview with Cyrille Fijnaut - Cyrille Fijnaut, Tilburg University

Chair

• Michael Woodiwiss, University of the West of England