An economic history of organized crime
Subtitle: a national and transnational approach
By: Dennis M.P. McCarthy
Series: Routledge studies in crime and economics; Routledge studies in crime and economics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780415487962; 9780203814253
Subjects: Organized crime; History; Mafia; Economic aspects; Transnational crime; Crime
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-314) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ABCs of a comparative economic history of organized crime : a national and transnational approach; title: Europe; title: Italian mafias; title: Russian mafias; title: Vignette : Albanian mafia; title: North America; title: US mafia; title: Mexican drug cartels; title: Vignette : organized crime in Canada; title: Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Basin; title: Colombian drug cartels; title: Gangs of the Caribbean; title: Vignette : organized crime in Cuba; title: Africsoa; title: Resource wars; title: Somali piracy; title: Vignette : international trugs, trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism in North and West Africa; title: Asia and Western Pacific; title: Triads; title: Yakuza; title: Vignette : international drugs trafficking, organized scrime, and terrorism in Afghanistan.