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18 Trends Org. Crime 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/trndorgc18 and id is 1 raw text is: Trends Organ Crim (2015) 18:1-11 DOI 10.1007/s121 l7-015-9247-y Combatting and analysing organized crime: the view from witnesses Michael Woodiwiss' Published online: 11 April 2015 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 Abstract This special issue of Trends in Organized Crime begins with a tribute to Joseph Albini who died in 2013 written by his colleague Jeff Mclllwain and ends with Matthew G. Yeager's reexamination of the career of John Landesco, among the earliest pioneers in the study of organized crime. In between are interviews with eight people whose careers gave them unique insights into the workings of organized criminality and allowed them to witness the creation of organized crime control efforts in America, Europe and at international levels as well as the implementation of these efforts. Dwight Smith, Frederick Martens, Selwyn Raab, James Jacobs, Cyrille Fijnaut, Ernesto Savona, Petrus van Duyne and Alan Wright were asked questions about their career experiences and the evolution of their thinking on organized crime and organized crime control. We normally find out about historical processes second hand through sources that are often unreliable and suspect. The testimonies and analyses in this volume sometimes clash with each other but more often complement each other. Taken together they are all first-hand accounts of the creation and workings of organized crime control, written by people who have dedicated much of their working lives to the effort to researching, understanding and combatting organized crime. Keywords Organized crime - Organized crime control - Economic crime - Corruption Organized criminal activities such as extortion, fraud and smuggling long predate the use of the phrase organized crime to describe a distinct phenomenon. In the late 19th century/early 20th century era that historians have labelled 'progressive', American reformers, commentators and newspaper editors began to refer to something they called organized crime more frequently. Usually the phrase was used to describe illicit activities, such as gambling and commercialised sex, that were protected by the city officials and local political organizations in control of the police and the courts. Despite W Michael Woodiwiss Mjwoodiwiss@gmail.com University of the West of England, Bristol, UK BS162JP 4L Springer

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