| In criminology race, culture and ethnicity are used to explain delinquency. In this tradition organized crime has often been presented with an exotic flavor. In the course of our research among Colombian "traquetos" in cocain, Turkish and Kurdish heroin dealers and Russian-speaking Mafiosi in The Netherlands we have learned to reverse the assumed causal relationship. It is through the appropriation of ethnicity that criminal groups and individuals manifest themselves. |
Updated 05/20/2006