Handbook of organized crime in the United States
By: edited by Robert J. Kelly, Ko-lin Chin, and Rufus Schatzberg ; foreword by Francis A.J. Ianni.
Contributors: Kelly, Robert J.; Chin, Ko-lin.; Schatzberg, Rufus, 1917-
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
Subjects: Organized crime -- United States -- History; Organized crime -- United States -- Prevention; Organized crime investigation -- United States
Description: An assessment of organised crime in America and of the law enforcement strategies and activities to control it since the Prohibition era. It analyses the nature, roots, causes, forms, growth, and control of crime and its effect upon economic, social, political and moral life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.