Organised networks in Serbia: Crime control and state capture in a country undergoing democratic transition and EU accession
Journal: White Rose eTheses Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)
Year: 2019

This thesis explores whether the extent of criminal networks in Serbia and their impact upon the country as it undergoes EU accession indicates a phenomenon that has been termed ‘state capture’. Through an analysis of Serbia’s stalled democratic transition and its association with the EU accession process, conditions for state capture in the field of crime control are found to have been established. Given recurrent references in international monitoring reports to organised crime as one of the k