Contemporary Organized Crime

Author : Hans Nelen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030565920
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Organized Crime written by Hans Nelen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores recent research and developments in the study of organized crime. It covers six key areas: drug-related issues; human trafficking and prostitution; sports and crime; procurement and corruption; and enforcement and prevention. The contributors provide timely research for understanding various aspects of organized crime, as well as the responses that have been developed worldwide to prevent and contain them. These contributions were presented at seminars of the Centre for Information and Research on Organized Crime (CIROC). It will be of interest to researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, particularly with an interest in organized crime and criminal networks, as well as related fields such as Comparative Law, and Political Science. This collection represents the most current thinking on entrenched problems of organized crime....This book is an important contribution in developing new approaches to organized crime and its control. — Jay S. Albanese, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Criminal Justice Programs, Virginia Commonwealth University The book is very well organised and written and deals with a diversity of topics and approaches. — Ernesto U.Savona, Director of Transcrime, Professor of Criminology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan

Author : Jay S. Albanese
Publisher : Criminal Justice Press
ISBN 13 : 9781881798040
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Organized Crime written by Jay S. Albanese and published by Criminal Justice Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Don Liddick
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516545377
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime written by Don Liddick and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized Crime: The Essentials provides students with an engaging introduction to the complex and pernicious world of organized crime. Students learn key concepts and principles within the discipline and study real-world examples of organized criminal activity. The text demonstrates how organized crime has adapted to changing times, become more sophisticated, and embedded itself into the fabric of economic, political, and social life in many nations around the world. The book begins with a definition of organized crime, an overview of key attributes and specific types, and discussion of its sociological foundations. Students are provided with a brief history of organized crime in America, including discussions of street gangs, prohibition, gambling, La Cosa Nostra, contemporary organized crime, and more. Later chapters examine illegal lotteries, sports betting, drug trafficking, organized theft, money laundering, and other ways in which organized crime operates as a business. The text concludes with chapters dedicated to transnational criminal enterprises, organized crime around the globe, and strategies for responding to organized crime. Approachable and informative, Organized Crime is ideal for undergraduate courses in criminology, criminal justice, and organized crime.

Author : Dina Siegel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146143212X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Organized Crime in the Modern World written by Dina Siegel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite strenuous efforts from local, national, and international law enforcement, organized crime continues to thrive and prosper—even centuries-old crime outfits are surviving the global forces of mass migration and multinational business and finance. From traditional gangland enterprises such as narcotics, gambling, and prostitution, the world’s mafias have moved into new sources of illegal income, including high-tech arms smuggling, money laundering, and identity fraud. Traditional Crime in the Modern World tracks these organizations—the Italian and Mexican mafias, Columbian drug cartels, Chinese triads, and others—across five continents as they adapt to change, and assesses their prospects in the short and long term. World events such as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the 9/11 terror attacks are discussed in the context of contributing to emerging markets for illicit goods and services, and to evolving partnerships among criminal entities. This timely volume: • Provides a comprehensive overview of how mafia-like structures function today. • Analyzes in depth national crime situations with global implications. • Examines the migration of organized crime groups and their operations in their new countries. • Gauges the influence of digital and other technologies on organized crime. • Where applicable, notes the links between organized crime and national political institutions. • Describes the impact of the global financial crisis on crime organizations. Concise, compelling, and deeply documented, Traditional Crime in the Modern World is an eye-opening resource for researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, particularly with an interest in organized crime and trafficking, as well as related topics of Demography, Political Science, and International Relations.

Author : Deborah Lamm Weisel
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781931202305
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Gangs written by Deborah Lamm Weisel and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Questioning whether organizational theory can lead to greater understandings of gang structure, size, and growth and contribute predictive theories about gang success and expansion, Weisel (political science and public administration, North Carolina State U.) conducted field research with four Chicago and San Diego gangs. Qualitative analysis methods and software were used to identify varying aspects of gang organizations including labor specialization; patterns of leadership; extent of hierarchy; occurrence of regular meetings; payment of dues; and adherence to rules, discipline, and penalties. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Cyrille Fijnaut
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402027656
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organised Crime in Europe written by Cyrille Fijnaut and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-21 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the first attempt to systematically compare organised crime concepts, as well as historical and contemporary patterns and control policies in thirteen European countries. These include seven ‘old’ EU Member States, two ‘new’ members, a candidate country, and three non-EU countries. Based on a standardised research protocol, thirty-three experts from different legal and social disciplines provide insight through detailed country reports. On this basis, the editors compare organised crime patterns and policies in Europe and assess EU initiatives against organised crime.

Author : Patrick J. Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime written by Patrick J. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in ABC-CLIO's series of background information for discussions or writing about contemporary issues. Ryan (criminal justice, Long Island U.) examines the Mafia and other organized crime groups, and efforts to control it. Included are a chronology from 1850 to 1995, biographical sketches of cops and robbers, documents and quotations from a wide variety of sources, a directory of resource institutions, and lists of selected print and non-print resources, and a glossary without pronunciation. The treatment is structured around ethnic minorities. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ryan Gingeras
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192526219
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey written by Ryan Gingeras and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of several devastating scandals over the last several decades, is strongly tied to the country's long history of opium production and heroin trafficking. As an industry at the centre of the Ottoman Empire's long transition into the modern Turkish Republic, as important as the silk road had been in earlier centuries, the modern rise of the opium and heroin trade helped to solidify and complicate long-standing relationships between state officials and criminal syndicates. Such relationships produced not only ongoing patterns of corruption, but helped fuel and enable repeated acts of state violence. Drawing upon new archival sources from the United States and Turkey, including declassified documents from the Prime Minister's Archives of the Republic of Turkey and the Central Intelligence Agency, Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey provides a critical window into how a handful of criminal syndicates played supporting roles in the making of national security politics in the contemporary Turkey. The rise of the 'Turkish mafia', from its origins in the late Ottoman period to its role in the 'deep state' revealed by the so-called Susurluk and Ergenekon scandals, is a story that mirrors troubling elements in the republic's establishment and emphasizes the transnational and comparative significance of narcotics and gangs in the country's past.

Author : Frederic D. Homer
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780911198379
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guns and Garlic written by Frederic D. Homer and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the appearance of Homer's study, it is no longerpossible to base any serious work about organized crime on the superficialdebate over whether or not this set of activities is dominated by one or moreparticular ethnic groups," writes political scientist Michael A.Weinstein in his introduction. Homer removes the study of organizedcrime from the realm of sensationalism and ethnic chauvinism, and places it inthe context of contemporary American social structure. He reviews prevalentmyths and hypotheses about organized crime and critically analyzes them in theframework of contemporary organization theory. In this context, organized crimeis analyzed in its economic, political, ethnic, and social class dimensions. Thisbook will pose a dilemma for American citizens, Weinstein concludes: "Will wechoose to ease our consciences by pretending that organized crime is an anomalyin American society to be eliminated by punitive action against particulargroups, or will we recognize that criminal matrices functionally interlock withmany other aspects of everyday life? Only the latter recognition will permit usto make a free decision about how we will act with respect to organized crime." Listed among the outstanding books of 1974 by both AmericanScholar and Society, Guns and Garlic is a recommended selection of the NationalCriminal Justice Reference Center, a division of the Law Enforcement AssistanceAssociation of the United States Department of Justice.

Author : James D. Torr
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime written by James D. Torr and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Cosa Nostra, the Russian Mafia, the Chinese Triads, the Japanese Yakuza -- these and other criminal organizations are profiled in this compelling volume. Contributors look at the operations of these groups both in the United States and worldwide and examine their impact on society.