Intergenerational transmission and organised crime:A study of seven families in the south of the Netherlands

Kinship ties play an important role in organised crime, but little attention hasbeen paid as yet to criminal families andintergenerational transmission ofdelinquent behaviour as well as criminal‘leadership.’This paper presents theresults of an in-depth study of seven families in the south of the Netherlands that produced a leader of a criminal group in at least one generation. In almost every generation, most male and female members of these families have criminal records, but intergenerational transmission of criminal leadership has so far occurred in only two families. There is a range of ri... Mehr ...