Author : Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 1985-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521313131
Papers from a conference held at Mount Kisco, N.Y., Feb. 1982, sponsored by the Committee on States and Social Structures, the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, and the Joint Committee on Western European Studies of the Social Science Research Council. Includes bibliographies and index.
Author : Michael Woodiwiss
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802082787
Historisch overzicht van de samenhang en wederzijdse beïnvloeding van de georganiseerde misdaad en de politiek in de Verenigde Staten.
Author : Jonathan D. Rosen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498593011
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Former Soviet republics
ISBN : 9780230361379
Author : Letizia Paoli
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 019973044X
This handbook explores organized crime, which it divides into two main concepts and types: the first is a set of stable organizations illegal per se or whose members systematically engage in crime, and the second is a set of serious criminal activities that are typically carried out for monetary gain.
Author : Michael Woodiwiss
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
We know all about organized crime. Blockbuster movies and books, and thousands of news stories continually tell an eager public that organized crime is what gangsters do. Closely knit, ethnically distinct, and ruthlessly efficient, these mafias control the drugs trade, people trafficking and other serious crimes. If only states would take the threat seriously and recognize the global nature of modern organized crime, the FBI's success against the New York mafias could be replicated throughout the world. The wicked trade in addictive drugs could be halted. The trouble is, as Michael Woodiwiss demonstrates in shocking and surprising detail, what everyone knows is pretty much completely wrong. Organized crime is dominated by employees of multinational companies, politicians and bureaucrats. Gangsters are a problem, but they are minor players when compared with the intelligence and law enforcement agencies that selectively enforce drugs prohibition and profit from it. The position of large corporations in the global economy provides the most mouth-watering opportunities for illegal profits. Woodiwiss shows how respectable businessmen and revered statesmen have seized these opportunities in an orgy of fraud and illegal violence that would leave the most hardened Mafioso speechless with admiration.
Author : Sam Giancana
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 006198647X
Some time in the early 1960s, during the golden age of organized crime in America—the era that would inspire The Godfather; Goodfellas, and even The Sopranos—federal investigators pulled every known piece of information on more than 800 Mafia members worldwide into a thick, phone-book-sized directory. From old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mickey Cohen to young turks like Paul Castellano and Vinny "The Chin" Gigante, the guide offered at-a-glance profiles of small-time thugs and major dons alike... and was allegedly the book Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used to investigate the mob. Recently discovered, and published for the first time in this facsimile edition, Mafia is a treasure trove of info on the underworld in mid-century America—a revelatory artifact and an irresistible read.
Author : Virginia Comolli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 2018-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319729683
Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict regions, amount to strategic challenges for the state. Whereas most commentators would agree that criminal activities are harmful, this volume addresses the questions of ‘how?’, ‘for whom?’ and, controversially, ‘are they always harmful?’ The volume is authored by experts with multi-year experience analysing criminal and other non-state activities. They do so through different lenses - conflict and security, development, and technology - engaging academics, practitioners and policy makers. They offer a comprehensive integrated response to the challenges of transnational organised crime beyond traditional law-enforcement driven recommendations.
Author : R. Evan Ellis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1498567975
Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Evolving Threats and Responses to Integrated, Adaptive Solutions provides a comprehensive overview of and introduction to transnational organized crime in Latin America for the student and practitioner. It addresses the geography of illicit activities, including relationships between source, transit, and consumption zones, as well as illicit activities beyond narcotrafficking, such as illegal mining, contraband, human smuggling, and money laundering. It applies a typology of cartels, intermediate groups, gangs, and ideological groups to examine specific criminal organizations and the relationships between them. It makes a comparative assessment of government approaches to combatting transnational organized crime in the region, including discussions of interagency coordination, interdiction, targeting of criminal group leaders, the use of the military in law enforcement, law enforcement reform efforts, prison control, and international cooperation. It concludes by applying these thorough analyses to make concrete recommendations for both Latin American and United States policymakers.
Author : K. Hirschfeld
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137490285
The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development of racketeer economies into unstable kleptocratic states. The result is a new model that explains the expansion and contraction of political-economic complexity in prehistoric and contemporary societies.
