Organized crime and corruption are directly opposed to the principles of the democratic order because they undermine formal processes in society. The damage that organized crime inflicts on society has multiple dimensions that take the spectrum between direct and tangible consequences, such as physical injury, to an abstract impact on community life by disrupting the structure of ties in society through corruption. The book “Black Economy and Black Society” presents the authors’ effort to present the relationship between organized crime and the state through the mechanisms of alternation of values ​​in society, the phenomenology of organized crime and the state synergies and the results of that dynamics.

In the discussion about the book will participate Aleksandar Fatić, Srdjan Korać, Lilijana Čičkarić and the authors, Aleksandra Bulatović and Olivera Pavićević will participate.

Aleksandra Bulatović is a research associate at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. Her research interest is focused on the sphere of social control, and she has a special interest in human security issues, within which the key category is the right to optimal quality of life, which refers to the whole spectrum of ethical issues at the level of public policy and individual and collective values.

Olivera Pavićević is a research associate at the Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research. It deals with the feminist perspective on the problems of society’s repressive response to social deviations and the conception of relevant infrastructure, and especially focuses on contemporary theoretical discourse of resilience