Crimillegal Orders: Revisiting Organized Crime’s Political Power by Markus Schultze-Kraft

“…Taking recourse to the conceptions of political order put forward by Weber, Fukuyama and North, Wallis and Weingast, I explain how regular patterns of social exchange and interaction - involving public and private, and state and non-state actors - that span an assumed divide between the realms of legality (“legitimate upper world”) and criminality (“illegitimate underworld”) influence the character, shape and evolution of political order. …”
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La Complainte de la scène by Marie Goupil-Lucas-Fontaine

“…During the first half of the 20th Century, songs depicting actors of the criminal underworld gradually vanish from stages. This can be explained by many intertwined factors – to put it in a nutshell, the evolutions of entertainments, stages, publics and star system – which result in ousting criminal complaints from stages at the end of the 19th Century. …”
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