Despite frequent associations, deindustrialization features rarely in studies of organized crime, and organized crime is at best a spectral presence in studies of deindustrialization. By developing an original application of Linkon's concept of the “half-life,” we present an empirical case for the symbiotic relationship between former sites of industry and the emergence of criminal markets. Based on a detailed case-study in the west of Scotland, an area long associated with both industry and crime, the paper interrogates the environmental, social, and cultural after-effects of deindustrialization at a community level. Drawing on 55 interviews with residents and service-providers in Tunbrooke, an urban community where an enduring criminal market grew in the ruins of industry, the paper elaborates the complex landscapes of identity, vulnerability, and harm that are embedded in the symbiosis of crime and deindustrialization. Building on recent scholarship, the paper argues that organized crime in Tunbrooke is best understood as an instance of “residual culture” grafted onto a fragmented, volatile criminal marketplace where the stable props of territorial identity are unsettled. The analysis allows for an extension of both the study of deindustrialization and organized crime, appreciating the “enduring legacies” of closure on young people, communal identity, and social relations in the twenty-first century.

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受损的硬汉：有组织的犯罪和去工业化的半衰期

尽管联系频繁，去工业化在有组织犯罪的研究中很少出现，而有组织犯罪充其量只是去工业化研究中的一个光谱存在。通过对 Linkon 的“半衰期”概念的原始应用，我们提出了一个实证案例，证明了工业的前遗址与犯罪市场的出现之间的共生关系。基于在苏格兰西部的详细案例研究，该地区长期以来一直与工业和犯罪联系在一起，该论文在社区层面询问了去工业化的环境、社会和文化后遗症。本文通过对通布鲁克居民和服务提供者的 55 次采访，这是一个城市社区，在这个城市社区，一个持久的犯罪市场在工业废墟中生长，阐述了身份的复杂景观，嵌入在犯罪和去工业化共生中的脆弱性和伤害。基于最近的学术研究，该论文认为，最好将通布鲁克的有组织犯罪理解为“残余文化”的一个实例，它嫁接到支离破碎、动荡不定的犯罪市场，在该市场上，领土认同的稳定支柱并未得到解决。该分析允许对去工业化和有组织犯罪的研究进行扩展，赞赏 21 世纪封闭对年轻人、社区认同和社会关系的“持久遗产”。不稳定的犯罪市场，领土身份的稳定支柱尚未解决。该分析允许对去工业化和有组织犯罪的研究进行扩展，赞赏 21 世纪封闭对年轻人、社区认同和社会关系的“持久遗产”。不稳定的犯罪市场，领土身份的稳定支柱尚未解决。该分析允许对去工业化和有组织犯罪的研究进行扩展，赞赏 21 世纪封闭对年轻人、社区认同和社会关系的“持久遗产”。