Organised Crime
eBook - ePub

Organised Crime

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Organised Crime

About this book

This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the study of organised crime - about those who commit it, the effect it has on individuals, businesses and states, and the ways in which states and the international community have sought to contain it. It explores all facets of what has become one of the key problems facing governments, policy makers and law enforcement agencies in the early twenty-first century.

Organised Crime has four predominant themes: the nature and central concepts of organised crime the specific activities with which it is associated its origins and growth nationally, regionally and globally the efforts by the international community and law enforcement agencies to contain, regulate and control the risks that it poses. The book contains a number of detailed case studies illustrating the growth of organised crime at national, international and transnational levels, ranging from the mafia, criminal gangs in the UK through to the new wave of organised crime in Russia and the post-Soviet states.

It will be essential reading for both students and practitioners in the police and other law enforcement agencies who have a concern with organised crime worldwide.

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Information

Publisher
Willan
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781843921400
eBook ISBN
9781134018901

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Mapping rough terrain: the contested concept of organised crime
  9. 2 Criminal organisation: the gang as a violent way of life
  10. 3 Dirty business: the political economy of organised crime
  11. 4 The magic roundabout: traffic in the global village
  12. 5 Organised crime: its ‘traditional’ forms
  13. 6 Land of opportunity: organised crime in the USA
  14. 7 New waves and the pax mafiosa thesis
  15. 8 Home firms: the British experience
  16. 9 Tackling organised crime: possibly together
  17. Conclusion
  18. References
  19. Index