The contributions all highlight one or several of the main issues currently discussed within international academic debate on organised crime. These include: what constitutes organised crime, how does organised crime work as a market and as an economic activity, how organised is organised crime, how international is it, how is organised crime regulated and controlled and what are the bases for these regulatory and controlling strategies

Karsten Ingvaldsen is a Criminologist and researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo.

Vanja Lundgren Sørli is a Criminologist and senior researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo.