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Handbook of organized crime in the United States

Author: Robert J Kelly; Ko-lin Chin; Rufus Schatzberg
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An assessment of organised crime in America and of the law enforcement strategies and activities to control it since the Prohibition era. It analyses the nature, roots, causes, forms, growth, and control of crime and its effect upon economic, social, political and moral life.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert J Kelly; Ko-lin Chin; Rufus Schatzberg
ISBN: 0313283664 9780313283666
OCLC Number: 30031521
Description: xiv, 542 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Defining organized crime / Michael D. Maltz --
Organized crime : history and historiography / Alan A. Block --
Models of organized crime / Jay S. Albanese --
Research on American organized crime / Peter Reuter --
Illicit enterprise : an organized crime paradigm for the nineties / Dwight C. Smith, Jr. --
The Bruno family of Philadelphia : organized crime as a regulatory agency / Mark H. Haller --
The organized crime neighborhoods of Chicago / Robert M. Lombardo --
African American organized crime / Rufus Schatzberg --
Chinese organized crime in America / Ko-lin Chin, Robert J. Kelly, and Jeffrey Fagan --
Russian organized crime in America / James O. Finckenauer --
Corruption and racketeering in the New York City school boards / William J. Cook, Jr. --
Organized crime and commercial sex / Charles Winick --
Turning black money into green : money laundering / Robert J. Kelly, Rufus Schatzberg, and Ko-lin Chin --
A history of organized crime control : federal strike forces / Patrick J. Ryan --
Intelligence and analysis within the organized crime function / Marilyn B. Peterson --
The role of crime commissions in organized crime control / Charles H. Rogovin and Frederick T. Martens --
Organized crime and drug abuse control / Mark A.R. Kleiman --
Policing emerging organized crime groups / John Dombrink and John Huey-Long Song --
The prosecutor as problem solver / Ronald Goldstock --
RICO : the federal experience (criminal and civil) and an analysis of attacks against the statute / G. Robert Blakey --
Without fear of retribution : the witness security program / Robert J. Kelly, Rufus Schatzberg, and Ko-lin Chin --
Epilogue / Joseph L. Albini.
Responsibility: edited by Robert J. Kelly, Ko-lin Chin, and Rufus Schatzberg ; foreword by Francis A.J. Ianni.

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An assessment of organised crime in America and of the law enforcement strategies and activities to control it since the Prohibition era. It analyses the nature, roots, causes, forms, growth, and control of crime and its effect upon economic, social, political and moral life.

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