Organized Crime

Name: Organized Crime
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ISBN: 9780130100207

ISBN-10: 013010020X

ISBN-13: 9780130100207

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: Michael D. Lyman, Gary W. Potter

List price: $89.00

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For undergraduate or graduate courses in Organized Crime in the departments of criminal justice or police studies. This text demystifies the world of organized crime by analyzing it closely and critically from a social perspective. Groups such as Afro-American, Mexican, Asian, Colombian, African, and Jamaican criminal groups are discussed as well as their Italian criminal counterparts who are typically thought of when the term organized crime is used. The text gives students the history, current role, and future of players in the world of organized crime, along with insight on what the criminal justice system is doing to suppress organized criminals.

Book details

List price: $89.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/13/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 536
Size: 7.24" wide x 9.57" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English




Understanding Organized Crime



Theories of Organized Criminal Behavior



The Evolution of Organized Crime: Urban Beginnings and Major Participants



The Evolution of Organized Crime: Southern Beginnings and Major Participants



The Businesses of Organized Crime



The Illicit Drug Trade



Domestic Organized Crime Groups



A Comparative Perspective



Terrorism as Organized Crime



Organized Crimersquo;s Political and Corporate Alliance



Controlling Organized Crime


References



Selected Provisions from the 2001 USA Patriot Act



Chronology of White Supremacist Domestic Terrorist Incidents in the 1980s