This book provides a synthesis of significant developments in the nature, history, theories, understanding, and prevention of organized crime, together with the criminal justice response. It reports on important convictions of organized crime figures, new transnational links, new attention to human smuggling, Internet crimes, and other modern manifestations of organized criminal activity. This edition includes new tables and figures, including "Organized Crime at the Movies" boxes that tie to relevant content in the text, and a glossary.

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A companion volume to American Mafia provides a compelling account of the federal government's fifty-year battle to bring down America's most powerful crime syndicate, drawing on years of field experience to profile Mafia leaders and the strategies used to bring them down. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Offering a unique look at organized crime, this book focuses on the political responses to this social problem. Complete with a history and description of the issue, it addresses the emergence of organized crime in the Unites States and discusses the political, social and economic factors that allowed it to thrive...read more

A former FBI Special Agent and Medal of Valor recipient relates his experiences fighting the mob wars of the 1960s and 1970s in New York and Ohio, investigating organized crime connections to loan-sharking, prositituion, gambling, and drug-related murders.

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