The politics of organized crime and the organized crime of politics
Subtitle: a study in criminal power
By: Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt.
Series: Critical perspectives on crime and inequality
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Organized crime.; Organized crime -- Government policy.; Elite (Social sciences); Power (Social sciences); Political corruption.; Transnational crime.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a neo-Marxist explanation of organized crime; title: Historical observations on clear[ly] and present[ly] danger[ous] plant life; title: A tale of two coups : Shanghai 1927 and La Paz 1980; title: Elites, cocaine, and power in Colombia and Peru; title: Beyond modern capitalism (I): Soviet and post-Soviet organized crime; title: Beyond modern capitalism (II): mercantile piracy; title: The racket and new world disorder : control and domination in the age of globalization.