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the study of upperworld crime (due to its failure to fit readily into earlier molds of definition and explanation) has been the precursor of the contemporary swing of criminology toward more penetrating investigation of the political processes by which certain behaviors become defined as criminal.
Nov 14, 2020 · We analyse historical and contemporary definitions of organised crime and organised crime groups. We also investigate the criminological theorising that explains organised criminality and victimisation as well as the power dynamics that contribute to its emergence and persistence.
Oct 16, 2008 · In the last three decades of the twentieth century, social and political events coalesced to create a movement against upperworld criminality. As its prevalence and the magnitude of its harm was publicized, the public became aware of white-collar crime and critical of offenders in white-collars.
- Francis T. Cullen, Jennifer L. Hartman, Cheryl Lero Jonson
- 2009
Our thesis is that a prosecutorial focus on up-perworld crimes in the federal district courts is associated with the use of specific types of bargaining tactics that involve a strategic and explicit juxtaposition of coercive threats and promised concessions. The social organization of these and other tactics is the subject of our discussion.
- Ilene Nagel Bernstein, John Hagan
- 1979
Jan 1, 2002 · Drawing on the intention-based model of organized crime (Sergi, 2017), this study specifically examines whether the country's national policy frames organized crime as a profit- or...
- Klaus Von Lampe
Jan 1, 2002 · To this end, an analysis of the government-issued Concepts for Combating Organized Crime was conducted, focusing on the rationale behind the adopted legal measures designed to combat organized...
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The Upperworld and the Underworld affords a fascinating view of the current state of organized crime in the United States and the rise of nontraditional criminal organizations in new immigrant communities.
