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NCJ Number: 173060 Add to Shopping cart Find in a Library
Title: Final Report: Soviet Emigre Organized Criminal Networks in the United States
Document: PDF
Dataset: DATASET 1
Author(s): J O Finckenauer; E Waring
Date Published: 1998
Annotation: The nature, scope, and level of organization of crime among immigrants from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania were studied, using a combination of field research, archival research, and survey research.
Abstract: Much of the data and investigative materials were collected by the criminal justice agencies in the Tri-State Joint Project on Soviet Emigre Organized Crime. Other information was collected by means of a mail survey of more than 750 police agencies and individuals and interviews with writers and journalists; crucial community figures in two large emigre communities; police in the United States and the former Soviet Union; and residents and businesspersons in Brighton Beach, N.Y. Results revealed that individual crimes of a highly organized and complex kind are being committed by emigres from the former Soviet Union. However, no Russian organized crime as such exists in the United States; no Russian Mafia exists. The Soviet emigre criminal networks observed during the research were neither predominately Russian, nor did they possess the defining characteristics for being a mafia. Findings indicated that the popular notion of a Russian Mafia in the United States is a symbolic creation of the media and law enforcement and has little basis in fact. Reference notes and appended figures, tables, map, and methodological information
Main Term(s): Criminology
Index Term(s): Crime patterns; Immigrants/Aliens; New Jersey; New York; NIJ final report; Organized crime; Pennsylvania; Russian Federation; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Grant Number: 93-IJ-CX-0019
Sponsoring Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
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Page Count: 123
Language: English
Country: United States of America
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