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Age and aging in organized crime in Israel

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The paper explores the relevance of age and aging in the functioning of organized crime groups in Israel, with a focus on group leaders. Age is connected to two social variables, family and ethnicity. Discussed is the role of age in two clusters: 1) Jewish organized crime groups from Europe, the former Soviet Union and Muslim-majority cultured countries and 2) Israeli Muslim Arab organized crime groups. What part age and aging play in both groups is discussed.

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  1. On the role of age and aging in criminology, see [4].

  2. On the early development of Georgian OC groups, see [2].

  3. On the Italians, see [12] and [13]. On the Japanese, see [11]. On the Chinese, see [6].

  4. I use altered versions of these concepts from my paper [3].

  5. We did not discuss the abuse of family elders in sheltered places; see e.g. [9].

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  1. Department of Law, Institute of Criminology, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, IL-91905, Jerusalem, Israel

    Menachim Amir

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Amir, M. Age and aging in organized crime in Israel. Crime Law Soc Change 55, 311–319 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9285-6

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