Friday, March 5, 2010

R.T. Naylor (1997)

Here's a quick and easy quote (compared to others I'll be posting) for my students to ponder before I get the time for more substantive items.  It comes from economist R.T. "Tom" Naylor's "Mafias, Myths, and Markets: On the Theory and Practice of Enterprise Crime" (Transnational Organized Crime, vol. 3, no. 3 [Autumn 1997], p.11) and is rather apt for the work on I am doing on the 2003-07 NBA betting scandal:

"The conventional view of organized crime...confounds an association of criminals with a criminal association."