Links to organised crime material

traditional Asian organised crime groups: Yakuza, Triads etc.

Organized Crime Registry - useful articles on Japanese Yakuza, Chinese Triads (also material on Russian Mafia and money laundering)

Conference papers on Chinese Triads and Russian Mafia from University of Hong Kong, Centre for Criminology

online book on the Yakuza by Anthony Bruno (Crime Library.com)

article on Triad operations in Russian Far East

article on Yakuza influence in the Japanese Banks

Books and papers by Andre Standing, Institute for Security Studies, Cape Town, on aspects of organised crime in South Africa

Organised Crime: A study from the Cape Flats (2006)

Re-Conceptualising Organised Crime   African Security Review 12(2) 2003 

Rival Views of Organised Crime   Institute of Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa. February 2003

The Social Contradictions of Organised Crime on the Cape Flats  ISS Paper No 74, June 2003

The threat of gangs and anti-gangs policy ISS Paper No 116 August 2005