RT Article
T1 Organized cross-atlantic crime: racketeering in fuels
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 22
IS 2
SP 127
OP 147
A1 Duyne, Petrus C. van 1946-
A2 Block, Alan A.
LA English
YR 1994
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1884003125
AB There is concern about penetration of organized crime in the legitimate business. This penetration can take various forms, ranging from a complete ‘take over’ to a veritable symbiosis between crime-enterprises and the legitimate industry. This paper describes the interaction between crime-enterprises in the mineral oil market in the Unites States and North-western Europe. It pictures the landscape or moral decay, lack of supervision by law enforcement and the spread of systematic fraud in a branch of industry which has become ripe for infiltration by organized crime. The paper reveals that organized business crime is not just a concern for the United States of Europe alone. If the entrepreneurial landscape has similar features and there are possibilities of personal bridgeheads organized business crime obtains crossborder, transatlantic dimensions. The paper questions the selective attention of law enforcement to easily recognizable crime and the morally dubious attitude of legitimate industry taking advantage of the profitable offers by criminal entrepreneurs.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 147
K1 International Relation
K1 Legitimate Business
K1 Organize Crime
K1 Selective Attention
K1 Unite State
DO 10.1007/BF01308443