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Cover -- Reorganizing Crime: Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1 Georgia in 'the Understandings' -- Independence and Weak Statehood in Georgia -- A Question of Resilience -- 2 Resilience and the Decline of Mafias -- A Very Brief History of Soviet Thievery -- Defining the Thieves-in-Law -- The Decline of Mafias -- Resilience -- Methods and Data -- Questions of Validity -- Conclusion -- 3 Thieves-in-Law as a Soviet and Post-Soviet Mafia in Georgia -- Demand: The Second Economy in Soviet Georgia -- Supply: The Thieves-in-Law in Soviet Georgia -- The Post-Soviet Period: Change and Continuity -- Krysha and Garcheva : Practices of Protection and Arbitration -- Thieves-in-Law in the Legitimate Economy -- Thieves-in-Law and Regulation of Illegal Activities -- Conclusion -- 4 Predator vs. Predator: the State and Mafia Before and After the Rose Revolution -- Trust Networks and State Predation -- Mafia and State in the Later Soviet Period: Clientage and Negotiated Connection -- Clientage, Bargaining, and Integration with State Structures in the 1990s -- Anti-Mafia and the Rose Revolution -- Strategies of Resistance -- Conclusion -- 5 Organizing and Re-Organizing Crime in Georgia -- The Structure of the Thieves' World -- Factionalism -- Centralization -- Local Criminal Careers and Factions -- Hierarchy and Competition -- Network Size and Agency Costs -- Conclusion -- 6 Fitting the Frame: Prison and Recruitment -- Initiation and Trust -- The Role of Prison in Recruitment -- Attrition -- Control over Recruitment -- Conclusion -- 7 'With My Body and Soul': Commitment and Exit Costs -- The Thieves' 'Law' as Commitment Mechanism -- Side Bets: The Obshchak and Skhodka -- Burning Bridges: Social Ties and Lifestyle -- Normative Commitment: Nicknaming and Self-Identification.

Internal Legitimacy and Commitment -- Conclusion -- 8 Maintaining Distinction: Social Attitudes to the Criminal Nobility -- Selling Status -- The Criminal Nobility: Lifestyle and Language -- Do You Follow the Understandings? Communicating Identity -- Social Attitudes to the Thieves-in-Law -- Thieves-in-Law and the Church -- Conclusion -- 9 Georgia Outside 'the Understandings'? -- The Georgian Case and the Theory of Organized Criminal Resilience -- Looking to the Future -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- BOOKS AND ARTICLES -- Archival Sources -- Court Cases and Indictments -- Official Documents and Reports -- Interview List -- Index.

Through an innovative and engaging analysis of an often misunderstood cohort of organised crime in Georgia, this book explores the resilience of so-called dark networks, such as organized crime groups and terrorist cells, and tests the theories of how and why success in challenging such organizations can occur.