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2 CRIME AND THE STATE COMMUNISM, MARKET ECONOMICS AND THE CRIMINAL ENTREPENEUR POST- PERESTROIKA

3 IS CRIME ALL BAD? wOwORGANISED CRIME CHALLENGES THE STATE’S LEGITIMACY wIwINSECURITY OF PERSON AND PROPERTY wNwNO RULE OF LAW wCwCORRUPTION w STUPID RULES CREATE CRIME w ENTREPENEURS CREATE WEALTH w THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPENEUR WHO HASN’T CUT CORNERS

4 CRIME BEFORE PERESTROIKA w MISUSE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY w LITTLE THEFT - LITTLE WORTH STEALING w MURDER AND ASSAULT RARE w SEXUAL CRIME PROBABLY HIDDEN

5 CRIME PREVENTION w DEZHURNAYA / CONCIERGE w KOMSOMOL AND YOUTH w IDEOLOGY w SOCIAL CONTROL -KGB w NO ROLE MODELS -SOCIALIST REALISM w YET EVERYBODY TOOK PART IN BARTER ECONOMY

6 CRIME BEFORE BREZHNEV w OILING THE WHEELS OF IMPERFECT PLANNING -TRANSPORT OF INDUSTRIAL GOODS w MOONLIGHTING REPAIRS [!] w SOFT FRUITS TO CITY MARKETS w CONSUMER GOODS FROM VISITORS w HARD CURRENCY DEALS w DRUGS

7 BREZHNEV POST-76 wWwWHOLESALE CORRUPTION wCwCOMMODITY EXPORTS -PROBABLY DIAMONDS wBwBACKHANDERS FROM WESTERN TNCs wOwOPENING OF BALKAN ROUTE wHwHARD-CURRENCY BLACK MARKET wMwMORE ORGANISED IMPORTS

8 PERESTROIKA w PROTECTION RACKETS w VIOLENCE w THEFT OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY w MURDER w ILLEGAL EXPORTS w CAPITAL FLIGHT w BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION

9 COLLAPSE OF SOCIAL CONTROL wNwNO CONCIERGES wDwDEAD COPS wNwNO KGB wNwNO IDEOLOGY wNwNO MORALITY wNwNO KOMSOMOL wNwNO MONEY wNwNO SECURITY wNwNO HOPE

10 NEW FORMS OF CRIME - I w PROSTITUTION -WHITE SLAVE TRADE TO WEST w PROTECTION RACKETS w CONTAINER HI-JACKING w ARMED RAIDS AS FAR AS GERMANY w MOVEMENT OF CAPITAL ABROAD w TRAINING -BY DUTCH? AND OTHERS?- IN ALL TYPE OF RIP-OFF

11 NEW FORMS OF CRIME - II w FRAUD w WAREHOUSING AND MANUFACTURE OF DRUGS w SMUGGLING OF HIGH-TAX GOODS INTO EU w ILLEGAL RAW MATERIALS EXPORT w TAKEOVER OF NEW BANKS w NETWORKING WITH OTHER GROUPS

12 FIGURES w CRIMES PER 100,000 POPULATION w RECORDED CRIMES w ALL FORMER COMMUNIST STATES SHOW SHARP RISE 88-89 w RUSSIA 88 189 MILITIA KILLED 1,350 WOUNDED

13 EXPLANATIONS AS PER LOTSPEITCH w PROBLEMS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT w REGULATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY w DETERIORATION OF ECONOMY w INCOMPLETE ECON. REFORMS w FEATURES OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

14 MOSCOW ORGANISED CRIME GROUPS w Tsentralnaya w Avtomobilnaya w Ostanskinaya w shared obshak w Solntsevskaya w Podolskaya w 21st Century Association


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