Theft Of The Nation

Author : Donald Cressey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351472410
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theft of the Nation written by Donald Cressey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized crime in America today is not the tough hoodlums familiar to moviegoers and TV watchers. It is more sophisticated, with many college graduates, gifted with organizational genius, all belonging to twenty-four tightly knit "families," who have corrupted legitimate business and infiltrated some of the highest levels of local, state, and federal government. Their power reaches into Congress, into the executive and judicial branches, police agencies, and labor unions, and into such business enterprises as real estate, retail stores, restaurants, hotels, linen-supply houses, and garbage-collection routes.How does organized crime operate? How dangerous is it? What are the implications for American society? How may we cope with it? In answering these questions, Cressey asserts that because organized crime provides illicit goods and services demanded by legitimate society, it has become part of legitimate society. This fascinating account reveals the parallels: the growth of specialization, "big-business practices" (pooling of capital and reinvestment of profits; fringe benefits like bail money), and government practices (negotiated settlements and peace treaties, defined territories, fair-trade agreements).For too long we have, as a society, concerned ourselves only with superficial questions about organized crime. "Theft of the Nation" focuses on to a more profound and searching level. Of course, organized crime exists. Cressey not only establishes this fact, but proceeds to explore it rigorously and with penetration. One need not agree with everything Cressey writes to conclude that no one, after the publication of "Theft of the Nation", can be knowledgeable about organized crime without having read this book.

Author : Gregg Barak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442207787
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theft of a Nation written by Gregg Barak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theft of a Nation is a powerful criminological examination of Wall Street's recent financial meltdown. Through the lenses of white collar crime and victimology, the book presents a critical assessment of the economic and political elites who were responsible, shows how Americans were victimized, and assesses the resulting regulation.

Author : William W. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theft of a Nation written by William W. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Ray Cressey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theft of the nation written by Donald Ray Cressey and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald R. Cressey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844658483
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theft of the Nation written by Donald R. Cressey and published by . This book was released on 1985-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald R. Cressey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theft of the nation written by Donald R. Cressey and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Gallagher
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850657163
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theft of a Nation written by Tom Gallagher and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2005 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Gallagher's analysis of the largest country in the Balkans focuses upon its efforts to transform its image. At the same time many of the key legacies of the Ceausescu regime remain intact. The success of NATO expansion and European enlargement depend upon the outcomes of necessary reforms in Romania.

Author : Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theft Of Nations written by Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the fallacies within the present global monetary system, in particular the interest-based fiat money system. It argues why the present system causes numerous socio-economic, political and environmental problems simply by the mere design of the system; and therefore is unsustainable by structure. It thereafter argues for the return to some form of gold standard to rectify the problem. This book is timely considering the fact that the world is now quite aware that the fiat money system cannot be supported any more and that some viable alternatives are needed urgently.

Author : Kim Bobo
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595588078
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wage Theft in America written by Kim Bobo and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book will give you an entirely new perspective on work in America.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars’ worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year—a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category. Even the Economic Policy Foundation, a business-funded think tank, has estimated that companies annually steal an incredible $19 billion in unpaid overtime. The scope of these abuses is staggering, but activists, unions, and policymakers—along with everyday Americans in congregations and towns across the country—have begun to take notice. While the first edition of Wage Theft In America documented the scope of the problem, this new edition adds the latest research on wage theft and tells what community, religious, and labor activists are now doing to address the crisis—from passing state and local wage-theft bills to establishing mayoral task forces and tapping agencies that help low-wage workers in spotting wage theft. Citing hard-hitting statistics and heartbreaking first-person accounts of exploitation at the hands of employers, this updated edition of Wage Theft In America offers concrete solutions and a roadmap for putting an end to this insidious practice.

Author : Tom Gallagher
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814732011
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Romania written by Tom Gallagher and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1989 fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Romania, arguably the most regimented of states in the Soviet bloc, has struggled with the transition from totalitarian state to democratic nation. In this insightful examination of modern Romania, Tom Gallagher provides an overview of Romania’s unique political and social history, focusing on both its national identity as well as the legacy of Soviet rule. Gallagher provides an in-depth look at Romania since 1989, focusing on the government’s attempts at economic reform, engagement with democracy, problems with corruption among the ruling elite, as well as the weakness of civil society and the resilience of implacable expressions of nationalism. Ultimately, Gallagher argues that thus far democracy has essentially failed in Romania. In fact, he warns that Romania is on its way to becoming one of the most unequal states in Europe and quite possibly a future trouble-spot unless efforts to resume much-needed reforms are undertaken.