RT Article
T1 Networked territorialism: the routes and roots of organised crime
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 24
IS 2
SP 246
OP 262
A1 Clark, Andy
A1 Fraser, Alistair David 1982-
A1 Hamilton-Smith, Niall
A2 Fraser, Alistair David 1982-
A2 Hamilton-Smith, Niall
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1758206020
AB In the digital age, space has become increasingly structured by the circuitry of global capital, communications and commodities. This ‘network society’ splinters and fragments territorial space according to the hidden logic of networked global capital; with successful criminal entrepreneurs connecting bases in low-risk, controllable territories with high-profit markets. Drawing on a recent, large-scale study of organised crime in Scotland, in this paper we elaborate the relationship between place, territory and criminal markets in two contrasting communities. The first is an urban neighbourhood with a longstanding organised crime footprint, where recognised local criminal groups have established deep roots. The second is a rural community with a negligible organised crime footprint, where the drug economy is serviced by a mobile criminal network based in England. Through comparison of the historical roots and contemporary routes of these criminal markets, we note both similarity and difference. While both communities demonstrated evidence of ‘networked territorialism’, key differences related to historical and social antecedents, in particular the impact of deindustrialisation.
K1 Deindustrialisation
K1 Space
K1 Organised Crime
K1 network society
K1 Castells
DO 10.1007/s12117-020-09393-9