Deconstructing Organized Crime An Historical and Theoretical Study

Name: Deconstructing Organized Crime An Historical and Theoretical Study
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ISBN: 9780786465804

ISBN-10: 0786465808

ISBN-13: 9780786465804

Edition: 2012

Authors: Joseph L. Albini, Jeffrey Sco McIllwain

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What is organized crime? This question has generated many responses over the decades from scholars, governments, the media, pop culture, and organized criminals themselves. Layered one on top of the other, these answers cumulatively created a "Mafia Mystique" that dominated discourse until after the end of the Cold War, when transnational organized crime emerged as a pronounced, if nebulous, threat to global security and stability. The authors untangle this discourse by providing an interdisciplinary analysis of the subject. By focusing on the American experience that dominated organized crime scholarship during the second half of the 20th century as well as more recent global…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 9/25/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 217
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Mystique of the Mafia



The Mafia Belongs to Sicily



Searching for "Our Thing"



Revision



Organizing Crime



Survival of the Fittest: From Russia to the Original Sin City



Globalization and Organized Criminals



The Organized Crime Matrix: A Transnational System of Social Networks of Organized Criminal Activity


Works Cited


Index