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Article: The governance of organised crime in Canada.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Abstract: The paper examines the governance of organised crime in Canada as it developed over the course of the 1990s. It looks especially at the micro-processes of knowledge construction about organised crime groups as it was carded out in the policing sector in Canada during the period. On the basis of empirical fieldwork, it describes in detail the process of measuring the threat of organised crime and explores its lacunae. The paper observes that the object of governance that is organised crime is not all that organised crime can be. It argues further that what can be observed about the governance of organised crime is more governance through organised crime.
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