The roots of Russian organized crime: from old-fashioned professionals to the organized criminal groups of today

This study focuses on the development of persons and organizations in the successor states of the Soviet Union, with an emphasis on Russia. It examines the development of criminal professionalism in Russia between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and argues that exiling peasants to Siberia c...

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Main Author: Cheloukhine, Serguei (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2008
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2008, Volume: 50, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 353-374
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Criminal Activity
Human Trafficking
Money Laundering
Organize Crime
Shadow Economy

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