Gavin Slade, Reorganizing crime: Mafia and anti-Mafia in post-Soviet Georgia. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, xiii, 217 pages

Abstract

Why do some campaigns against the mafia succeed, whereas others fail? What makes it possible to defeat a mafia? Governments all over the world, from the United States to Latin America to Italy, have been wrestling with these questions for years. Now Gavin Slade has addressed them in an elegant case study of post-Soviet Georgia. Integrating both state policies and mafia characteristics into a coherent theory of mafia survival and collapse, Reorganizing Crime should engage both post-Soviet rese...