Organized crime
Subtitle: an inside guide to the world's most successful industry
By: Paul Lunde
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780760786246
Subjects: Organized crime
Description: Provides an overview of organized crime and examines the characteristics, resources, strategies, and history of the criminal underworld from a social, political, and economic context, as well as the efforts of law enforcement.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: What is organized crime?; title: Defining organized crime; title: Organized crime activities; title: Exploiting the human condition; title: Supplying the illicit; title: Extortion and protection; title: Manipulating money; title: Organized crime groups; title: The Sicilian Mafia; title: Other Italian groups; title: Organized crime in Britain; title: The Russian Mafiya; title: Organized crime in Albania; title: The Yakuza; title: The Triads and the Tongs; title: The American Mafia; title: Outlaw motorcycle gangs; title: The Mexican cartels; title: Yardies and posses; title: The Medellín and Cali cartels.