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"Organizing Crime: Mafias, Markets, and Networks provides the most exhaustive overview ever published of knowledge about organized crime. It provides intensive accounts of American, Italian, and Dutch developments, covers both national mafias and transnational criminality, and delves in depth i...
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The University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Crime and justice,
volume 49 |
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| Summary: |
"Organizing Crime: Mafias, Markets, and Networks provides the most exhaustive overview ever published of knowledge about organized crime. It provides intensive accounts of American, Italian, and Dutch developments, covers both national mafias and transnational criminality, and delves in depth into gender, human capital, and money laundering issues. The writers are based in seven countries. To a person they are, or are among, the world's most distinguished specialists in their subjects. At last, credible explanations and testable hypotheses are available concerning when, why, and under what circumstances mafias and other organized crime organizations come into being, what makes them distinctive, what they do and with what effects, and how to contain them"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 647 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226722832 022672283X 9780226708393 022670839X |
| Index Number: | HV6441 |
| CLC: |
C913.8 D917.7 |
| Call Number: | D917.7/O688 |
| Contents: |
Organized crime : less than meets the eye / The rise and fall of organized crime in the United States / Italian organized crime since 1950 / What makes mafias different? / How similar are modern criminal syndicates to traditional mafias? / How mafias migrate : transplantation, functional diversification, and separation / Women in organized crime / Organized crime and criminal careers / Collaboration and boundaries in organized crime : a network perspective / Human smuggling : structure and mechanisms / Outlaw motorcycle clubs and organized crime / Understanding the laundering of organized crime money / |