This paper provides an introduction to the articles that comprise this special issue on violence and organised crime. Bringing together research into money laundering, local elections, state interventions and interrelated processes, firearms and home robberies, enforcers and contract killings, this issue explores the relationship between violence and various facets of organised crime. Taken together, the articles offer empirical and theoretical insights into the processes, logics and economies of violence. In doing so, this issue both advances our current understanding of the role violence plays in organised crime and raises additional questions about the context within which violence is employed, thereby highlighting further avenues for future research.

本文介绍了构成本期关于暴力和有组织犯罪的特刊的文章。本期汇集了对洗钱、地方选举、国家干预和相关程序、枪支和家庭抢劫、执法人员和合同杀人的研究，探讨了暴力与有组织犯罪的各个方面之间的关系。总之，这些文章提供了对暴力过程、逻辑和经济的经验和理论见解。在这样做的过程中，这个问题既推进了我们目前对暴力在有组织犯罪中所起的作用的理解，也提出了关于使用暴力的背景的其他问题，从而突出了未来研究的进一步途径。