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 Culture, Migration and Transnational Crime: Ethnic Albanian Organized Crime in New York City
Award Information
Awardee
              Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College
Award #
              2012-IJ-CX-0004
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    New York, NY
Congressional District
              10
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2012
Total funding (to date)
              $99,868
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 12 W.E.B. Dubois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture and Crime
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2012, $99,868)
The purpose of this research is to understand if ethnic Albanian organized crime groups have tried to reconstruct their group's activities, territorial control, cultural codes and organized structure in a new territory of operation, New York City. This research seeks to understand six dimensions related to ethnic Albanian organized crime groups: 1) reasons for going abroad; 2) level of support from constituencies; 3) importance of cultural codes; 4) organized structure in new territory; 5) selection of criminal activities in the new territory; and 6) economic incentives, investments and political infiltration.
Data is drawn from focus groups with experts and members of the Albanian diaspora, semi-structured interviews with Albanian offenders, interviews with key contact points, ethnographic study and participant observation in areas of concern identified by the New York Police Department, and survey interviews of community members in areas of concern.
Data gathered will be analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.  The grantee will examine links between cultural codes and involvement in crime as well as the prevalence and patterns of crime victimization due to culture and ethnic background.
This study will provide policy makers and law enforcement officials with knowledge that can be used for the development of balanced, effective anti-organized crime policies for dealing with ethnic Albanian organized crime and potentially other emerging organized criminal enterprises. ca/ncf



  
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                      Adaptation, Rationality, and Advancement: Ethnic Albanian Organized Crime in New York City
                  Strategic Mobsters or Deprived Migrants? Testing the Transplantation and Deprivation Models of Organized Crime in an Effort to Understand Criminal Mobility and Diversity in the United States
                  Culture, Migration and Transnational Crime: Ethnic Albanian Organized Crime in New York City

  
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