Poland: Organized Crime and the Financial Crisis. Recent Trends in the Baltic Sea Region

Abstract

Over the last few years, the world has witnessed a financial crisis with implications that have been compared to those of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Much has been written on the impact of the crisis on economies and on how some countries have been more successful than others in mitigating its negative effects. However, there is a topic that has not been as widely covered – the impact of the financial crisis on organized crime. This article focus primarily on economic and financial crimes from the Polish point of view.