Illegal Markets and Organised Crime in Switzerland: A Critical Assessment

This paper provides a critical assessment of organised crime in Switzerland. The first section reconstructs the emergence of the concept in the Swiss public discourse, critically summarises the public and academic debate on organised crime and assesses the existing research and the accessible government data. In the second section a general overview of organised crime patterns in Switzerland is provided. The third section focuses on illegal markets, whereas the fourth section analyses the infiltration of organised crime in the legitimate economy. Some concluding remarks follow.