"Czech Organised Crime: From Racketeering to Corruption Networks" is based, first, on analysis of interviews with people involved in the fight against organised crime. Building on this analysis, the authors have developed a typology of Czech organised crime. Second, analysis of media sources has been employed to illustrate the respective types.

The book consists of two main parts. The first part focuses on the paradigmatic debate on how to conceptualise and understand organized crime as such, and aims at introducing recent developments in this field both to Czech scholars and wide public, developments that have led to abandoning the older conception of organised crime as a homogenous, violent and closed structure. The second part of the book then deals with the most important variants and features of the phenomenon that is being labelled as organised crime by law enforcement and criminal justice bodies. The book concludes with an analysis of "Czech organised crime" as a whole, as regards its structure, exclusivity of membership, violence, continuity, illegal business undertakings, penetration of legal economy, (non-)ideological character and corruption.