Organized Crime
Publisher: Wadsworth
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781133049630
Subjects: Organized crime; Crime, united states
Description: Ever dynamic, organized crime continues to change. Efforts to combat one aspect of the phenomenon, the American Mafia, have reached high levels of prosecutorial success--resulting in a decline in the organization's relative importance. Meanwhile, criminal organizations operating on a global scale have become more sophisticated and more threatening, and additional crime groups have been added to the pantheon we refer to as organized crime. Reflecting changes that have occurred in recent years, this edition updates information and analyses of organized crime as well as efforts to deal with it.