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What is the Russian Mafia? This unique book thoroughly researches this question and challenges widely-held views. The author charts the emergence of the Russian Mafia in the context of the transition to the market, the privatization of protection, and pervasive corruption. The ability of the Russian state to define property rights and protect contracts is compared to the services offered by fragments of the state apparatus, private security firms, ethnic crime groups, the Cossacks, and the Mafia. Past criminal traditions, rituals, and norms have been resuscitated by the Mafia of today to forge a powerful new identity and compete in a crowded market for protection. The book draws on reports of undercover police operations; in-depth interviews conducted over several years with the victims of the Mafia, criminals, and officials; and documents from the Gulag archives. It also provides a comparative study, making references to other Mafia (the Japanese Yakuza, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, the American-Italian Mafia, and the Hong Kong Triads).

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Russian Mafia
• Author: Federico Varese
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780199279494
• ISBN: 0199279497
• ID: 04477865
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 438 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 157 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. February 2005

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