Undermining the Foundations of Organized Crime and Public Sector Corruption
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Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
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Category : Organized crime
ISBN : 9780817946739
Author :
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
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Category : Organized crime
ISBN : 9780817946739
Author : Edgardo Buscaglia
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Organized crime
ISBN : 9780817946722
Author : John A. Gardiner
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 1970-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1610446291
Discusses actual corrupt practices in one small city, showing both the mechanisms of corruption and the fundamental questions they raise, the answers to which will apply in many cities. He describes the background and conditions that made it possible for a local syndicate to take over an Eastern industrial center, "Wincanton." He discusses the many factors which permitted the take-over, stressing the citizens' lack of concern about links between petty gambling and the undermining of their local government.
Author : Jeff Cortese
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000582612
Public Corruption in the United States provides a comprehensive view of public corruption, including discussion on its types, methods, trends, challenges, and overall impact. It is the first book of its kind to examine in plain language the breadth of criminal public corruption in the United States, not just at a superficial level, but in a deeper context. By critically examining acts of corruption of elected, appointed and hired government officials (legislators, law enforcement, judges, etc.) at the local, state, and federal levels, the reader gains insight into the inner workings of corruption, including its relationship to terrorism and organized criminal networks. Using simple language and easy-to-understand examples, this book is about empowering investigators, compliance professionals, educators, public officials, and everyday citizens who seek to better serve, support, and protect their communities and their country.
Author : New York State Organized Crime Task Force
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814730345
This book, Corruption and Racketeering In The New York City Construction Industry: The Final Report of the New York State Organized Task Force, lays out in close and compelling detail the intricate patterns of currupt activities and relationships that for the better part of a century have characterized business as usual in the construction industry in America's largest metropolis. The book is the end product of more than five years' worth of investigation, prosecutions, and research by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force, a unique agency that has set a national example for marrying law enforcement initiatives with comprehensive and exhausting analysis of the causes and dynamics of industrial racketeering. This is a sobering analysis of the construction industry , one of New York City's largest industries, and in effect, one of the city's most significant economic sectors. In any given year during the 1980s, billions of dollars of construction were being carried out at any one time. The industry regularly employs more than 100,000 people in the city, involving some one hundred union locals and many hundreds of general and specialty contractors as well as a large number of architects, engineers, and materials suppliers. The book shows—in great and provocative detail—how organized extortion, bribery illegal cartels, and bid rigging characterize construction in the city. The basis for much of this crim is labor racketeering, controlled or orchestrated by organized crime. It reveals how this world of corruption affects not only the private sector but the city's vast public works program, and it spells out the ways in which both organized crime and official corruption each sustain the dynamics of ongoing criminality. Wrong-doing on a massive scale is documented at length. But this book is more than a recitation of extensive and systematic criminality. The book recommends a number of plausible options for genuine reform. Necessarily these are profound and radical solutions, but everyone who reads this book will conclude that only profound and radical solutions could hope to solve such an entrenched and intractable crime problem.
Author : J. J. M. van Dijk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2004
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ISBN : 9789211302363
Author : Guillermo Trejo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108899900
One of the most surprising developments in Mexico's transition to democracy is the outbreak of criminal wars and large-scale criminal violence. Why did Mexican drug cartels go to war as the country transitioned away from one-party rule? And why have criminal wars proliferated as democracy has consolidated and elections have become more competitive subnationally? In Votes, Drugs, and Violence, Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley develop a political theory of criminal violence in weak democracies that elucidates how democratic politics and the fragmentation of power fundamentally shape cartels' incentives for war and peace. Drawing on in-depth case studies and statistical analysis spanning more than two decades and multiple levels of government, Trejo and Ley show that electoral competition and partisan conflict were key drivers of the outbreak of Mexico's crime wars, the intensification of violence, and the expansion of war and violence to the spheres of local politics and civil society.
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Herbert E. Alexander
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1985
Category : True Crime
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Author : Augusto Lopez-Claros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108476961
Identifies the major weaknesses in the current United Nations system and proposes fundamental reforms to address each. This title is also available as Open Access.