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This email interview with Cyrille Fijnaut was conducted during 2013 and 2014. It discusses Fijnaut’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his early career in the Dutch police in the 1960s, through to his work as a criminologist for academia and governments. His main research interests are related to organized crime and terrorism, international police and judicial cooperation, comparative criminal procedure and police law, the history of European and American criminology and of policing in Europe, and police and judicial cooperation in the Benelux. In these fields he has written and edited some 75 books and published hundreds of articles in national and international journals and edited books. In 2004 he edited together with Letizia Paoli, Organized Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Control Policies in the European Union and Beyond. In addition he has worked in the last 20 years as an expert for a number of governmental and parliamentary committees of inquiry in Belgium and the Netherlands with regard to organized and professional crime problems and in relation to security issues. Currently he is working on a book on the future of police and judicial cooperation in the framework of the internal and external security policies of the European Union.
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Cyrille Fijnaut, Opdat de macht een toevlucht zij?, (Antwerpen: Kluwer, 1979, 2 vol.).
See e.g. Cyrille Fijnaut and Dirk van Daele (eds.), De hervorming van het openbaar ministerie, (Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven, 1999).
Cyrille Fijnaut, “De undercover-agent: een omstreden voorbode van een nieuw recherchebeleid”, Delikt en Delinkwent, Vol. 10, 1980, No. 10, pp. 698–712.
Cyrille Fijnaut, De zaak-Francois; beschouwingen over het vonnis, (Antwerpen: Kluwer, 1983).
Cyrille Fijnaut, “De uitdaging van de georganiseerde misdaad”, Delikt en Delinkwent, 1984, Vol. 14, No. 7, p. 581–584., and “Georganiseerde misdaad: een onderzoeksgerichte terreinverkenning”, Justitiële Verkenningen, 1985, no. 9, pp. 5–42.
Cyrille Fijnaut, “Organized Crime: A Comparison between the United States and Western Europe”, British Journal of Criminology, Vol.30, Part 3, (1990) pp.321–340.
Pino Arlacchi, Mafia Business; The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, (London: Verso, 1986).
Cyrille Fijnaut, Liesbeth Nuijten-Edelbroek and Hans Spickenheuer, Politiële misdaadbestrijding, (The Hague: Research and Documentation Centre, 1985.
This report was edited in 1988 by the task force and published by the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. The final report – with the same title – was predominantly drafted by James Jacobs and published in 1990 by New York University Press.
I refer here to the books Jacobs wrote with some of his students see, for example: James B. Jacobs with Christopher Panarella and Jay Worthington, Busting the Mob: United States v. Cosa Nostra, (New York: New York University Press, 1994), and James B. Jacobs with Coleen Friel, and Robert Radick, Gotham Unbound: How New York City was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime, (New York: New York University Press, 1999).
Cyrille Fijnaut and James Jacobs (eds.) Organized Crime and its Containment: A Transatlantic Initiative, (Deventer: Kluwer, 1991).
A head shop is a retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia related to drug and tobacco use.
Cyrille Fijnaut (ed.), The Administrative Approach to (Organized) Crime in Amsterdam, (Amsterdam: City of Amsterdam, 2002).
Projectgroep Emergo, De gezamenlijke aanpak van de zware (georganiseerde) misdaad in het hart van Amsterdam; achtergronden, ontwikkelingen en perspectieven, (Amsterdam: Boom, 2011). This has an English summary.
Arjen van ‘t Veer, Hans Moerland and Cyrille Fijnaut, Gokken in drievoud; facetten van deelname, aanbod en regulering, Arnhem, Gouda Quint, 1993.
Cyrille Fijnaut and Gary Marx, Undercover: Police Surveillance in Comparative Perspective, (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1995).
One of the reports dealt in particular with a notorious criminal case in Rotterdam: Cyrille Fijnaut, Officier van Justitie v. bende van de Miljardair, (Arnhem: Gouda Quint, 1993).
The hard cover edition of this book was published by Springer in 2004 and the paperback edition in 2006.
European Parliament, 2013, Document P7_TA (2013)0444. For all the documents related to this committee, see: www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/crim/home.htlm.
I tried to some extent to prevent this but in vain. See my editorials, “Twenty years ago: the assassinations of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino” European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2012, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 131–136 and “The European Parliament and organized crime: the impending failure of the Alfano committee” European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2013, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1–7.
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Woodiwiss, M. The analysis and containment of organized crime in Europe: an interview with Cyrille Fijnaut. Trends Organ Crim 18, 94–106 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-014-9225-9
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