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020			_a9780191662171 _q(electronic bk.)
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100	1		_aSlade, Gavin. _96379
245	1	0	_aReorganizing Crime : _bMafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press USA - OSO, _c2014.
264		4	_c©2013.
300			_a1 online resource (242 pages)
336			_aText _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aComputermedien _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aOnline Resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aClarendon Studies in Criminology Series
500			_aE-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
505	0		_aCover -- 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.
505	8		_aInternal 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.
520			_aThrough 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.
648			_a1991-2012 _967982
650			_aOrganisiertes Verbrechen _96091
650			_aBekämpfung _95361
651			_aGeorgien
653			_aOrganized crime-Georgia (Republic).
655			_aFernzugriff _9230
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aSlade, Gavin _tReorganizing Crime _dOxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,c2014 _z9780199674640
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5905177 _zVolltext
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