An Economic History Of Organized Crime

Author : Dennis M. P. McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136705823

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An Economic History of Organized Crime by Dennis M. P. McCarthy Pdf

This book is a comparative study of organized crime groups from five different parts of the world: Europe; North America; Central America/South America/Caribbean basin; Africa; and Asia/Western Pacific. Each part contains two case studies and a shorter essay, a vignette. From Europe the case studies focus on the Italian mafias and the Russian mafia; the vignette, on the Albanian mafia. From North America the case studies highlight the US Mafia and the Mexican drug cartels; the vignette, organized crime in Canada. From Central America/South America/Caribbean basin the case studies concentrate on the Colombian drug cartels and gangs of the Caribbean; the vignette, on organized crime in Cuba. From Africa the case studies examine resource wars and Somali piracy; the vignette, relations among international drugs trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism in North and West Africa. And from Asia/Western Pacific the case studies spotlight the Chinese Triads and Japanese Yakuza; the vignette, relations among international drugs trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism in Afghanistan. Written in non-specialist language, An Economic History of Organized Crime provides an original overview of a crucial problem of our times: the growing scourge of global organized crime. This book can be read with profit by the general public, but it also has value for academic specialists and professionals in law enforcement.

Author : Gianluca Fiorentini,Sam Peltzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521629551

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The Economics of Organised Crime by Gianluca Fiorentini,Sam Peltzman Pdf

The first book to apply economic theory to the analysis of all aspects of organised crime.

Author : Herbert E. Alexander,Gerald E. Caiden
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : True Crime
ISBN : UOM:39015011045740

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The Politics and Economics of Organized Crime by Herbert E. Alexander,Gerald E. Caiden Pdf

Author : Ryan Gingeras
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198716020

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Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey by Ryan Gingeras Pdf

Exploring the development of heroin smuggling in Turkey since the 1920s, Ryan Gingeras uses newly declassified documents to trace the impact of the drug trade and organized crime on the evolution of the Republic of Turkey, and shows how narcotics syndicates have influenced the political establishment through the 20th century.

Author : Michael Woodiwiss
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802082785

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Organized Crime and American Power by Michael Woodiwiss Pdf

Historisch overzicht van de samenhang en wederzijdse beïnvloeding van de georganiseerde misdaad en de politiek in de Verenigde Staten.

Author : Hanna Samir Kassab,Jonathan D. Rosen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319906355

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Illicit Markets, Organized Crime, and Global Security by Hanna Samir Kassab,Jonathan D. Rosen Pdf

This book explains the existence of illicit markets throughout human history and provides recommendations to governments. Organized criminal networks increased in strength after the enforcement of prohibition, eventually challenging the authority of the state and its institutions through corruption and violence. Criminal networks now organize under cyber-infrastructure, what we call the Deep or Dark Web. The authors analyze how illicit markets come together, issues of destabilization and international security, the effect of legitimate enterprises crowded out of developing countries, and ultimately, illicit markets' cost to human life.

Author : Antonio Nicaso,Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000374407

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Organized Crime by Antonio Nicaso,Marcel Danesi Pdf

This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and on websites. Contemporary societies are clearly fascinated by them. Why is this so? What feature and constituents of organized criminal gangs make them so emotionally powerful—to themselves and others? These are the questions that have guided the writing of this textbook, which is intended as an introduction to organized crime from the angle of cultural analysis. Key topics include: • An historic overview of organized crime, including the social, economic, and cultural conditions that favour its development; • A review of the type of people who make up organized gangs and the activities in which they engage; • The symbols, rituals, codes and languages that characterize criminal institutions; • The relationship between organized crime and cybercrime; • The role of women in organized crime; • Drugs and narco-terrorism; • Media portrayals of organized crime. Organized Crime includes case studies and offers an accessible, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of organized crime. It is essential reading for students engaged with organized crime across criminology, sociology, anthropology and psychology.

Author : Letizia Paoli
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199730445

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The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime by Letizia Paoli Pdf

This handbook explores organized crime, which it divides into two main concepts and types: the first is a set of stable organizations illegal per se or whose members systematically engage in crime, and the second is a set of serious criminal activities that are typically carried out for monetary gain.

Author : Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung,Regine Schönenberg
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839424957

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Transnational Organized Crime by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung,Regine Schönenberg Pdf

Transnational organized crime interferes with the everyday lives of more and more people - and represents a serious threat to democracy. By now, organized crime has become an inherent feature of economic globalization, and the fine line between the legal and illegal operation of business networks is blurred. Additionally, few experts could claim to have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the laws and regulations governing the international flow of trade, and hence of the borderline towards criminal transactions. This book offers contributions from 12 countries around the world authored by 25 experts from a wide range of academic disciplines, representatives from civil society organizations and private industry, journalists, as well as activists. Recognizing the complexity of the issue, this publication provides a cross cultural and multi-disciplinary analysis of transnational organized crime including a historical approach from different regional and cultural contexts.

Author : Frank G. Madsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 9780415464987

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Transnational Organized Crime by Frank G. Madsen Pdf

This book explains the history and development of organized crime and clearly demonstrates the economics and practices of crime in the era of globalization.

Author : Dennis M. P. McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136705816

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An Economic History of Organized Crime by Dennis M. P. McCarthy Pdf

This book is a comparative study of organized crime groups from five different parts of the world: Europe; North America; Central America/South America/Caribbean basin; Africa; and Asia/Western Pacific. Each part contains two case studies and a shorter essay, a vignette. From Europe the case studies focus on the Italian mafias and the Russian mafia; the vignette, on the Albanian mafia. From North America the case studies highlight the US Mafia and the Mexican drug cartels; the vignette, organized crime in Canada. From Central America/South America/Caribbean basin the case studies concentrate on the Colombian drug cartels and gangs of the Caribbean; the vignette, on organized crime in Cuba. From Africa the case studies examine resource wars and Somali piracy; the vignette, relations among international drugs trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism in North and West Africa. And from Asia/Western Pacific the case studies spotlight the Chinese Triads and Japanese Yakuza; the vignette, relations among international drugs trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism in Afghanistan. Written in non-specialist language, An Economic History of Organized Crime provides an original overview of a crucial problem of our times: the growing scourge of global organized crime. This book can be read with profit by the general public, but it also has value for academic specialists and professionals in law enforcement.

Author : Paul Lunde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Organized crime
ISBN : OCLC:1288493423

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Organized Crime by Paul Lunde Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Woodiwiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 148754345X

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Organized Crime and American Power by Michael Woodiwiss Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive history of organized crime in the United States - and how it has been a significant part of the nation's development, rather than an external threat to its political, economic, and social structures.

Author : Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political corruption
ISBN : 1610162560

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Organized Crime by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Pdf

Politics and thieves, coercion and regulation, fascism and the Fed, centralization and liberty, workers and unions, trade and freedom, free-market achievements and government disasters in American history this book covers it all! Thomas J. DiLorenzo strips away the vast apparatus of establishment propaganda and exposes the government smokescreen. No statist lies are safe from his scrutiny. In his straightforward and methodical approach to uncovering truths of freedom, liberty has a champion.

Author : Georgios A. Antonopoulos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319316086

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Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control by Georgios A. Antonopoulos Pdf

This book covers organized crime groups, empirical studies of organized crime, criminal finances and money laundering, and crime prevention, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field. The contributions to this book are new chapters written in honor of Professor Dick Hobbs, on the occasion of his retirement. They reflect his powerful influence on the study of organized crime, offering a novel perspective that located organized crime in its socio-economic context, studied through prolonged ethnographic engagement. Professor Hobbs has influenced a generation of criminology researchers engaged in studying organized crime groups, and this work provides a both a look back and this influence and directions for future research. It will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with a focus on organized crime and financial crime, as well as those interested in corruption, crime prevention, and applications of ethnographic methods.