[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Organised Crime in History

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Global Crime <globalcrime@gmail.com>

Call for Papers

Special Issue of the journal Global Crime:

Organised Crime in History

Organised crime is often considered an essentially modern phenomenon. 
Tosome it
is a product of the influx of immigrants to the United States in the late
nineteenth century, brought to the boil in the Prohibition years. Especially
adventurous souls may look even further back into history, to the
seventeenth-century pirates who ravaged the Atlantic and the Caribbean.

However, the roots of organised crime are in primal human 
characteristics: the
natural tendency for criminals to band together and specialize; the 
weaknesses
of state and community institutions and the opportunities this creates for
illegal structures; and the patronage and corruption existing within 
every body
politic. Thus, from the protection racketeers of Ancient Rome to Aztec
cocoa-bean counterfeiters, the murderers-for-hire of the original 
Assassins of
Alamut to the fifteenth-century French Coquillards, organised crime has 
always
lurked in the shadowy underside of organised society.

This special issue of the journal Global Crime, will be edited by Mark 
Galeotti,
visiting professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers - Newark, 
USA, and
director of the Organised Russian & Eurasian crime Research Unit at Keele
University, UK. It seeks to reclaim the history of organised crime 
around the
world and explore its many ways and forms and in particular its 
relationship to
its host society. Contributions are welcome from historians, archaeologists,
political scientists, criminologists, anthropologists and any scholars 
willing
to cast a light into these shadows. The intention is that this special 
issue may
also be published in book form.

Global Crime is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis 
devoted to
high-calibre scholarship on serious and organised crime. Its coverage is not
just on organised crime in the strict sense, but on a wide range of criminal
activities, from corruption, illegal market transactions, state crime and
terrorism. This focus is deliberately broad and multi-disciplinary, its 
first
aim being to make the best scholarship available to specialists and
non-specialists alike. It endorses no particular orthodoxy and draws on 
authors
from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, economics,
political science, anthropology and area studies. Visit the web page of the
journal @
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17440572.asp

The deadline for submitting abstracts to Dr Galeotti 
(GlobalCrime@gmail.com) is
1 April 2006. We expect to receive the papers by 30 September 2006.

Global Crime
<globalcrime@gmail.com>