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Organized Crime Genres Osgoode Hall Law School of York University Osgoode Digital Commons Organized Crime in North America and the World: Complete Bibliography A Bibliography September 2017 Part 3: Organized Crime Genres Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/bibliography Recommended Citation "Part 3: Organized Crime Genres" (2017). Complete Bibliography. 6. http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/bibliography/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Organized Crime in North America and the World: A Bibliography at Osgoode Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Complete Bibliography by an authorized administrator of Osgoode Digital Commons. Part Three: Organized Crime Genres This part includes literature that examines specific organized crime “genres.” The genres included in the bibliography are those that are dominant among criminal organizations in North America. Albanian Asian Chinese Japanese Vietnamese Italian (in Italy) Italian-American (Italian organized crime in North America) Jamaican Jewish Latin American Colombian Mexican Nigerian/West African Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs Russian/Eastern European Albanian Ballezza, R A. 1998. “YACS (Yugoslavian/Albanian/Croatian/Serbian) Crime Groups: An FBI Major Crime Initiative.” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. 7(11, November): 7-12. Chossudovsky, Michel. 1999. Kosovo `Freedom Fighters’ Financed by Organised Crime. Cilluffo, Frank and George Salmoiraghi. 1999. “And the Winner is . the Albanian Mafia.” Washington Quarterly. 22 (4, Autumn): 21-5. Galeotti, Mark. 2001. “Albanian Gangs Gain Foothold in European Crime Underworld.” Jane’s Intelligence Review 13(11, November): 25-7. Heldman, Kevin. 2012. The Streets of Tirana and the Roots of Albanian-American Organized Crime. Capital. June 14. Kominek, Jiri. 2002. “Albanian Organised Crime Finds a Home in the Czech Republic.” Jane’s Intelligence Review. 14(10, October): 34-35 . Raufer, Xavier avec Stéphane Quéré. 2000. La Mafia Albanaise, une Menace pour l’Europe: Comment est née cette Superpuissance Criminelle Balkanique. Lausanne: Favre. Ruggiero, Vincenzo. 2000. “Criminal Franchising: Albanians and Illicit Drugs in Italy.” in Mangai Natarajan and Mike Hough (eds.). Illegal Drug Markets: From Research to Prevention Policy. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press/Willow Tree Press, 203-18. Xhudo, Gus. 1996. “Men of Purpose: The Growth of Albanian Criminal Activity.” Transnational Organized Crime. 2(1, Spring): 1-20, Asian Huey Long Song & John Dombrink. 1994. “Asian Emerging Crime Groups: Examining the Definition of Organized Crime.” Criminal Justice Review. 19(2, Summer): 228-43. Keene, Linda 1989.”Asian Organized Crime.” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. 58 (October): 13-17. Chalk, Peter. 2000. “Southeast Asia and the Golden Triangle’s Heroin Trade: Threat and Response.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. 23(2, April/June):89-106. Chin, Ko-lin. 1991 “The Emergence of Asian Organized Crime Problems and Perspectives.” Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis Digest. 6(1) Summer: 45-47. Helfand, Neil S. 2003. Asian Organized Crime and Terrorist Activity in Canada, 1999-2002. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. Mosquera, Richard. 1993 “Asian Organized Crime.” Police Chief. 60(10): October 1: 65. Myers, Willard H. III. 1995. “The Emerging Threat of Transnational Organized Crime From the East.” Crime, Law and Social Change. 24(3, August): 181-222. Nyhuus, Ken. 1998. “Chasing Ghosts – Asian Organized Crime Investigation in Canada.” Gazette (Royal Canadian Mounted Police). 60(10): 46-55, 63. United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. 1993. 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Bolz, Jennifer. 1995. “Chinese Organized Crime and Illegal Alien Trafficking: Humans as a Commodity.” Asian Affairs. 22(Fall): 147-58. Booth, Martin. 1999. The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads. London: Doubleday/Transworld Publishers. Che, Wai-Kin. 1990.”The Triad Societies in Hong Kong in the 1990s.” Police Studies. 13(4, Winter): 151-53. Chu, Yiu Kong. 2000. The Triads as Business. Routledge Studies in Modern History of Asia, 6. London, UK: Routledge. Chen, An. 2005. “Secret Societies and Organized Crime in Contemporary China.” Modern Asian Studies. 39(1):77-107. Chin, Ko-lin. 1996. Chinatown Gangs: Extortion, Enterprise, and Ethnicity. New York: Oxford University Press. _________. 1990. Chinese Subculture and Criminality: Non Traditional Crime Groups in America. Contributions in Criminology and Penology. no. 29. New York: Greenwood Press. Curtis, E. Glenn, Seth L. Elan, Rexford A.Hudson, and Nina A. Kollars. 2002. “ Transnational Activities of Chinese Crime Organizations.” Trends in Organized Crime 7(3): 19-59. Dubro, James. 1992. Dragons of Crime: Inside the Asian Underworld. Toronto: Octopus. Finckenauer, James O. 2001. Chinese Transnational Organized Crime: The Fuk Ching. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice. Huang, Hua-Lun. 2004. “Let Senior Brothers/Sisters Meet Junior Brothers/Sisters: The Categorical Linkages Between Traditional Chinese Secret Associations and Modern Organized Chinese Underground Groups.” Journal of Gang Research. 11(4):47-68. Huang, Hua-Lun; John Zheng Wang and George Fox . 2002. “From Religious Cult to Criminal Gang: The Evolution of Chinese Triads (Part 1).” Journal of Gang Research 9(4, Summer):25-32. Kelly, Robert J. and Ko-Lin and Fagan Jeffrey A Chin. 1993.”The Dragon Breathes Fire: Chinese Organized Crime in New York City.” Crime, Law and Social Change. 19(3): 245-69. 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