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Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations.

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Resources in This Category

• American Organized Crime

  http://www.mobsters.8m.com/
  Collection of articles on the U.S. Mafia and other elements of organized crime, focusing on New York and Chicago underworlds before and during Prohibition.

• Asian Organized Crime in Australia

  http://www.fas.org/irp/world/australia/docs/ncaaoc1.html
  A 1995 discussion paper by the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority. Paper deals with Chinese (Triads), Vietnamese and Japanese (Yakuza) ethnic criminal entities in Australia.

• Black Market News

  http://blackmarketnews.blogspot.com/
  Updates on organized crime from news sources around the world. Deals with black markets, government corruption, and inadequate government intervention.

• Black Market News

  http://blackmarketnews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
  Updates on organized crime from news sources around the world. Deals with black markets, government corruption and inadequate government intervention.

• Gang Land

  http://www.ganglandnews.com/
  Jerry Capeci, longtime reporter and columnist with The New York Daily News, shares his perspective on organized crime. Histories of the regional crime families, weekly columns, biographies of underworld figures.

• GangRule

  http://www.gangrule.com/
  Features a database of organized crime families and notable historic events, photographs, mugshots, newspaper clippings, and official documents

• Gangsterologists

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gangsterologists/
  Online discussion group for true crime writers, researchers. Site features a forum and polls. Forum message text is available as an RSS News Feed.

• Havocscope Black Markets

  http://www.havocscope.com/
  Provides information on worldwide trade in contraband. Covers organized crime activities and other outlawed revenue-generating activities.

• International Association for the Study of Organized Crime

  http://www.judicalis.org/iasoc.html
  Professional association founded in 1984 to promote understanding and research. Site contains member list, book reviews, news, links.

• IPSN: Bill Roemer on Las Vegas Mobsters

  http://www.ipsn.org/vegas1.html
  A former FBI agent's discussion of mob involvement in Sin City gambling.

• Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security

  http://nathanson.osgoode.yorku.ca/
  Academic site featuring a searchable bibliographic database, articles on the evolving techniques of criminals and crime fighters, periodic newsletters, and a categorized collection of related links.

• NPR : Hidden Treasures: A Museum for the Mob

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1905864
  Broadcast: Las Vegas's proposed organized crime museum draws criticism.

• Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

  http://www.reportingproject.net/
  News, investigative reports and authoritative links related to outlaw organizations, terrorist groups and official corruption in Eastern Europe.

• Organized Crime Research

  http://www.organized-crime.de/
  Articles, abstracts, book reviews and links with a focus on criminal organizations in the U.S. and in Germany.

• Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center

  http://policy-traccc.gmu.edu/
  Devoted to better understanding of crime scope and causes and to formulating policy to reduce the problem.

• The American Mafia: Kefauver Committee Reports

  http://www.onewal.com/maf-kef.html
  Full text of the interim and final reports of the U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, 1950-1951.

• United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime

  http://www.unodc.org/unodc/index.html
  UNODC is mandated to assist member states in the struggle against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism. Overview of criminal activity and U.N. efforts to combat it, also regional assessments of West Africa and Central Asia.

• Wikipedia: Albanian Mafia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_mafia
  Article looks at ethnic Albanian organized crime groups, including New York's Rudaj gang.

• Wikipedia: Herman K. Beebe

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_K._Beebe
  Article on the reputed mob-affiliated banker linked to a dozen failed Savings and Loans.

• Wikipedia: Jamaican Posse

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Posse
  Article discusses the history and activities of this coalition of New York-based gangs.

• Wikipedia: Organized Crime

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime
  Article defines the topic, explores varieties of criminal rackets and the organizations engaged in them

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