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 Professor Dr. Vahit Bicak meet Klaus von Lampe, the executive director of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC.)
(10 November 2009) Professor Dr. Vahit Bicak meet Klaus von Lampe, the executive director of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC) which is a professional association of criminologists, researchers, working professionals, teachers, and students. IASOC works to promote greater understanding and research about organized crime in all its manifestations. IASOC was founded in 1984.
Klaus von Lampe is an assistant professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration. He has previously been a researcher at Free University Berlin, Germany. After graduating from high school in Berlin and in Racine, Wisconsin, where he spent one year as an exchange student, he enrolled in the law and political science programs at Free University. His political science master"™s thesis examined the debate on genetic engineering in East Germany as a case study of the scope of public discourse in Soviet societies. His doctoral dissertation and the resulting book Organized Crime: Begriff und Theorie organisierter KriminalitŤt in den USA on the concept and theory of organized crime in the United States, allowed him to pursue his varied research interests extending from political science and criminology to criminal procedure law, group sociology, organization studies, economics and history. A significant part of the research for his thesis he conducted as a Research Fellow at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice in Newark, New Jersey. While writing his dissertation he practiced law as an attorney. Following the completion of his doctorate Dr. von Lampe, in collaboration with Ulrich Eisenberg, professor of criminology at Free University Berlin, initiated a study of the cigarette black market. Both lines of his research were combined in the "Assessing Organised Crime" (AOC) project funded by the European Commission, which developed a new approach to the strategic analysis of organized crime taking cigarette smuggling in Europe as a case study. In 2008, shortly before coming to the U.S., Dr. von Lampe organized the 7th Blankensee Colloquium "Human Capital and Social Capital in Criminal Networks" with a grant from the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Along with Petrus van Duyne he is one of the co-organizers of the annual Cross-Border Crime Colloquium and co-editor/co-author of the resulting conference volumes, including Upperworld and Underworld in Cross-Border Crime (with P. van Duyne and N. Passas) which was nominated for the Distinguished Book Award of the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. Dr. von Lampe is editor-in-chief of Trends in Organized Crime, associate editor of Crime, Law and Social Change, contributing editor of the Criminal Justice Abstracts, and host of the Organized Crime Research website. |
