Poland: Organized Crime and the Financial Crisis. Recent Trends in the Baltic Sea Region

Raczkowski, Konrad; Gołębiowski, Grzegorz

Poland: Organized Crime and the Financial Crisis. Recent Trends in the Baltic Sea Region

Abstract

Over the last few years, the world has witnessed a financial crisis with implications that have been compared to those of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Much has been written on the impact of the crisis on economies and on how some countries have been more successful than others in mitigating its negative effects. However, there is a topic that has not been as widely covered – the impact of the financial crisis on organized crime. This article focus primarily on economic and financial crimes from the Polish point of view.

Keywords

economic threats economy organized crime financial crisis

Citation

K. Raczkowski, G. Gołębiowski, Poland: Organized Crime and the Financial Crisis. Recent Trends in the Baltic Sea Region, [in:] W. Kegö, E. Leijonmarck, A. Molcean, Organized Crime and the Financial Crisis. Recent Trends in the Baltic Sea Region, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm 2011, ss. 85-110.