Rethinking Organized Crime: Production, Trade and Governance

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

The panel presents a set of four papers reporting on theoretical and empirical findings of the ERC-funded project CrimGov (PI Federico Varese). The project rethinks the nature of organized crime through a new analytical framework that identifies three different categories of organized crime activities: production, trade, and governance. The papers include studies of international drugs trafficking, the network structure of mafias, and criminal governance, in the context of the Republic of Georgia, Japan, and South America. All papers are in dialogue with each other and refer to the common theoretical framework.

Subtopic

• Topic 1: Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Behavior / Theoretical and Epistemological debates in Criminology (Crime, Science and Politics WG)

Chair

• Federico Varese, Sciences Po

Individual Presentations

• What is Organized Crime? The Production-Trade-Governance Framework - Federico Varese, Oxford University

• “I hate what my dad was doing but I would never be as cool as him”. Criminal Governance n Georgia in Narratives of Mafia Family Members - Elena Racheva, University of Oxford

• (TBD TO BE CONFIRMED COAUTHOR) Mapping drug smuggling networks in Japan: a social network analysis of trial documents - Martina Baradel, University of Oxford

• “Those Who Own the Land, Hold the Power”: Governing Trade Routes in Honduras - Emilia Ziosi, University of Oxford