Does organized crime exist in Africa?: Figure 1

Journal Article Does organized crime exist in Africa? Get access Stephen Ellis, Stephen Ellis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Shaw Mark Shaw * *Stephen Ellis (ellis@ascleiden.nl) is a researcher at the Afrika Studiecentrum, Leiden, and a Desmond Tutu professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Mark Shaw (mark.shaw@uct.ac.za) is SARChI Chair of Security and Justice and Research Professor and Director of the Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town. This article is a fusion of two unpublished workshop papers, one on changes in the global context, by Stephen Ellis, and another on protection economies, by Mark Shaw. The authors are grateful to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation for funding workshops on this issue in Cape Town on 27–28 March (a report is published at http://www.globalinitiative.net/unholy-alliances-organized-crime-in-southern-africa) and 13–14 November 2014. This work is based on research supported by the South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant No. 47303). Any opinion, finding or conclusion, or recommendation expressed in this material is that of the authors and the NRF does not accept any liability in this regard. The authors are grateful for comments from Elrena van der Spuy, and from two anonymous reviewers and the editors of African Affairs. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 114, Issue 457, October 2015, Pages 505–528, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adv035 Published: 17 August 2015