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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Description -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Revisiting and Revising Organized Crime -- Chapter 2: Welcome to the Gig (Crime) Economy -- Chapter 3: Why Smaller/More Flexible Cell- Like Nodes and Networks? -- Chapter 4: The Criminogenic Network and Role of Legitimate Financial Institutions -- Chapter 5: Overview of the Size of the Problem -- Chapter 6: Traditional Organized Crime (e.g., Mafia) -- Chapter 7: Historical Overview: A Few Key Concepts -- Chapter 8: Japan (i.e., Yakuza) -- Chapter 9: Italy (e.g., La Cosa Nostra) -- Chapter 10: United States (e.g., Al Capone, the "Five Families") -- Chapter 11: Notes on Ontology of Organized Crime -- Chapter 12: Event-Based (i.e., the Study of Criminal Events and Collective Action as the Basis for Conclusions) -- Chapter 13: Epistemology and Sources of Knowledge -- Chapter 14: Operations and Functioning of Organized Crime Groups -- Chapter 15: Transformation of Organized Crime Groups in Theory and Practice -- Chapter 16: Organized Crime and New Participants -- Chapter 17: Professions and the New Organized Crime: Control -- Chapter 18: The Future of Organized Crime -- References -- About the Author -- Index -- Adpage -- Backcover.

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SummaryThis paper examines fertility transition in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and second-largest city in sub-Saharan Africa. Shapiro (1996) documented the onset of fertility transition in the city, using data from 1990. Women's education was strongly inversely related to fertility, beginning with secondary schooling, and increases in women's education were important in initiating fertility transition in the city. The paper uses data from the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey in the DRC to examine fertility in Kinshasa and assess fertility transition since 1990, a period characterized by severe adverse economic conditions in the DRC. Fertility transition has continued at a strong pace. In part this reflects increased educational attainment of women, but it appears also to be largely a consequence of enduring economic hardship. The ongoing fertility decline has been accompanied by substantial delays in entry to marriage and childbearing, reflecting adverse economic conditions, which in turn have contributed to continuing declines in fertility.

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