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21. Armed Candy: A True-Life Story of Organised Crime by Reg McKay | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2002-05-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Gunned down in broad daylight on his own home patch in 1998, the young man's murder seemed like just another street squabble between drug dealers, and the police marked the file unsolved. But in a one-mile stretch of Glasgow's slums, the victim's bodies started falling, disappearing, overdosing, and meeting accidents. The police were at a loss. This is the story of organized crime gone paranoid and turning in on itself, seen through unusual eyes. Kay, a call-girl by profession, was a member of the inner circle of one of the countries most vicious gangs. Raised in a rural middle-class home, she spent her teenaged years in rough housing schemes, and was conned into prostitution by her mother. After a chance meeting with a gangster in a bar, she was recruited by him as his confidante. Soon she was carrying a loaded gun. She took a lover, the gang's equalizer, who was the young man gunned down in the street. For Kay it was the start of her way out. |
22. Organized Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism (2 Volume Set). | |
Hardcover: 792
Pages
(2007-09-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description Despite its impact on international security and the world economy, organized crime is an unusual topic for a reference book. Difficult to research, the high-profit, high-risk subculture of drug lords, diamond smugglers, and sex slavers is rarely investigated by scholars. Organized Crime: An International Encyclopedia ventures behind the scenes into this hazardous territory. In the first volume, expert contributors offer a global perspective on issues such as weapons and arms trafficking, high-tech and cyber crimes, the future of organized crime, and the connection between organized crime and armed conflicts. The second volume consists entirely of primary documents, national and international laws, and treaties that reflect the international community's many attempts—largely ineffective—to combat organized crime. Together the two volumes provide students and general readers with a road map to a shadow world with far-reaching impact on the world we know. Customer Reviews (1)
a milestone of research on organized crime |
23. Terrorism and Organized Hate Crime: Intelligence Gathering, Analysis and Investigations, Second Edition by Michael R. Ronczkowski | |
Hardcover: 392
Pages
(2006-11-14)
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Customer Reviews (6)
Great topic, but...2.5 stars
What an awesome book !!!
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24. The Encyclopedia of Gangsters: A Worldwide Guide to Organized Crime by Michael Newton | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2007-10-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description Black Hand, Tammany Hall, political scandals, mafias, cartels, and opium gangs. The Encyclopedia of Gangsters provides an encompassing look at organized crime around the world. More than just the Sicilian Mafia, who are celebrated by pop culture and often depicted on the silver screen in films such as the Godfather trilogy and Scarface, the world of gangsters spans the globe and has deep roots. The Encyclopedia of Gangsters is arranged both chronologically and geographically, highlighting the legendary figures, the famous heists and busts, and the stranglehold these organizations still exert today. Infamous characters like Al Capone, Carlo Gambino, John Gotti, Arnold Rothstein, Isadore Blumenfeld, Wah Ching, Sergei Mikhailov, and Phoolan Devi are profiled in this colorful and comprehensive collection. |
25. Organized crime in America;: A book of readings (Ann Arbor paperbacks) by Gus Tyler | |
Paperback: 431
Pages
(1967)
Asin: B0007DS3LS Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
26. Organized Crime (5th Edition) by Michael D. Lyman, Gary W. Potter | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(2010-08-20)
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Is this really new?
organized crime
Excellent
Good Book
Good Introduction The book is written in atextbook fashion and the authors provide keywords at the end of eachchapter to assit the student in learning the main points of eachchapter. Both the authors appear very knowledgable in this subject andthey continue to add current information into their newer additions. ... Read more |
27. Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States: From Capone's Chicago to the New Urban Underworld by Robert J. Kelly | |
Hardcover: 392
Pages
(2000-04-30)
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Not Really An Encycolopedia
Poor value for the cost and the limited information. |
28. Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands (Pitt Latin American Studies) | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2001-01-18)
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Editorial Review Product Description The United States–Mexico border zone is one of the busiest and most dangerous in the world. NAFTA and rapid industrialization on the Mexican side have brought trade, travel, migration, and consequently, organized crime and corruption to the region on an unprecedented scale. Until recently, crime at the border was viewed as a local law enforcement problem with drug trafficking—a matter of “beefing” up police and “hardening” the border. At the turn of the century, that limited perception has changed. The range of criminal activity at the border now extends beyond drugs to include smuggling of arms, people, vehicles, financial instruments, environmentally dangerous substances, endangered species, and archeological objects. Such widespread trafficking involves complex, high-level criminal-political alliances that local lawenforcement alone can’t address. Researchers of the region, as well as officials from both capitals, now see the border as a set of systemic problems that threaten the economic, political, and social health of their countries as a whole. Organized Crime and Democratic Governability brings together scholars and specialists, including current and former government officials, from both sides of the border to trace the history and define the reality of this situation. Their diverse perspectives place the issue of organized crime in historical, political, economic, and cultural contexts unattainable by single-author studies. Contributors examine broad issues related to the political systems of both countries, as well as the specific actors—crime gangs, government officials, prosecutors, police, and the military—involved in the ongoing drama of the border. Editors Bailey and Godson provide an interpretive frame, a “continuum of governability,” that will guide researchers and policymakers toward defining goals and solutions to the complex problem that, along with a border, the United States and Mexico now share. |
29. Lucky Luciano: The Man Who Organized Crime in America (rev. ed.) by Hickman Powell | |
Hardcover: 341
Pages
(2000-01-01)
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LET DOWN
A Wonderful Piece of History
A Noted Secondary Source
Bad book by a biased sycophant of the author
Caution! Public Domain Reprint! |
30. Organized Crime, Third Edition by Michael D. Lyman, Gary W. Potter | |
Hardcover: 608
Pages
(2003-07-25)
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Best Book on the Topic |
31. Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes (Crime Science) | |
Hardcover: 222
Pages
(2010-04-30)
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Good reviews by highly competent folks! |
32. Organized Crime and American Power: A History by Michael Woodiwiss | |
Paperback: 432
Pages
(2001-11-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description Organized crime, understood in a literal sense as systematic illegal activity for money or power, is as old as the first systems of law and government and as international as trade. Piracy, banditry, kidnapping, extortion, forgery, fraud, and trading in stolen or illegal goods and services are all ancient occupations that have often involved the active participation of landowners, merchants, and government officials. Many people today, however, follow the lead of the US government and American commentators and understand organized crime as being virtually synonymous with super-criminal 'Mafia-type' organizations. These are usually seen as separate entities, distinct from legitimate society but possessing almost unlimited regional, national, and even international power. As background to this understanding of organized crime there exists a consensus among most commentators that suggests that the United States has had the most experience and success in dealing with the problem. In Organized Crime and American Power: A History, Michael Woodiwiss argues that organized criminal activity has never been a serious threat to established economic and political power structures in the United States but more often a fluid, variable, and open-ended phenomenon that has, in fact, complemented those structures. Conventional histories of the problem tend to focus on outlaws in peripheral feudal societies, most commonly Sicily, for their antecedents. Woodiwiss by contrast finds his antecedents in the systematic criminal activity of the powerful and respectable in those ancient and early modern societies that we usually understand to be at the centre of 'civilized' development and continues to emphasize the crimes of the powerful throughout his wide ranging overview. He surveys the organization of crime in the Southern states after the American Civil War; the organized crimes of American business interests; the causes and corrupt consequences of the US campaign to prohibit alcohol and other 'vices'; the elaboration of the Mafia conspiracy interpretation of organized crime and the consequent 'dumbing of discourse' about the problem, not just nationally but internationally. Emphasizing the importance of collaboration, as much as confrontation, between government and criminals, Woodiwiss illustrates how crime control policies based on the Mafia paradigm have not only failed to address much organized criminal behaviour, but have, in many ways, proved counterproductive and damaging to individual rights and social stability. Customer Reviews (1)
Gangs of America |
33. Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime by Michael Woodiwiss | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2005-10-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description The trouble is, as Woodiwiss demonstrates in shocking and surprising detail, what everyone knows about organized crime is pretty much completely wrong. In reality the most important figures in organized crime are employees of multinational companies, politicians and bureaucrats. Gangsters are certainly a problem, but much of their strength comes from attempts to prohibit the market for certain drugs. Even here they are minor players when compared with the intelligence and law enforcement agencies that selectively enforce prohibition and profit from it. Woodiwiss shows how respectable businessmen and revered statesmen have seized these opportunities in an orgy of fraud and illegal violence Customer Reviews (3)
A very timely book
Wasted opportunity
Ganster Review |
34. Wages Of Crime: Black Markets, Illegal Finance, And The Underworld Economy by R. T. Naylor | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(2005-01-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description R. T. Naylor specializes in the study of smuggling, black markets, and international financial crime. Wages of Crime takes the reader into the shadowy underworld of modern criminal business—arms trafficking, gold smuggling, money laundering, and terrorist financing. Naylor dissects the schemes by which illegal entrepreneurs disguise their acts, manage their take, and eventually enjoy the loot. The author asserts that much of what police, press, politicians, and the public understand about international crime is based on myth and misrepresentation. Wages of Crime also outlines Naylor’s claim that some of the most popular modern law-enforcement fads are inefficient or useless and can do massive damage in eroding civil liberties. In the wake of recent tragedies, Naylor’s criticisms of contemporary anticrime policies and the confounding of criminal and national security issues have a sharper resonance. Customer Reviews (6)
Too much politics with the economics
cornell press
Political diatribe masquerading as scholarly work
A Marxist perspective on Black Market issues
recomended |
35. Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit (Images of America) by Scott M. Burnstein | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2006-10-11)
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wonderful, i need more
interesting
Cheers to Scott!
Excellent book for the Motor City
Motor City Mafia |
36. Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada by Stephen Schneider | |
Paperback: 608
Pages
(2009-12-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description -Mobster Paul Volpe speaking about a Buffalo-mafia enforcer named "Cicci"
Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naïve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally.
Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada is a remarkable parallel history to the one generally accepted and taught in our schools. Organized crime has had a significant impact on the shaping of this country and the lives of its people. The most violent and thuggish - outlaw motorcycle gangs like Hells Angels - have been raised to mythic proportions. The families who owned distilleries during Prohibition, such as the Bronfmans, built vast fortunes that today are vested in corporate holdings. The mafia in Montreal created and controlled the largest heroin and cocaine smuggling empire in the world, feeding the insatiable appetite of our American neighbours. Today, gangs are laying waste the streets of Vancouver, and "BC bud" flows into the U.S. as the marijuana of choice.
Organized crime is as old as this nation's founding, with pirates ravaging the east coast, even as hired guns by colonial governments. Since our nation's earliest times, government and crime groups have found that collusion can have its mutual benefits.
Comprehensive, informative and entertaining - as you will discover in the remarkable period pieces devised by the author and the illustrations commissioned specially for this book - Iced is a romp across the nation and across the centuries. In these pages you will meet crime groups that are at once sordid and inept, yet resourceful entrepreneurs and self-proclaimed champions of the underdog, who operate in full sight of their communities and the law. This is the definitive book on organized crime in Canada, and a unique contribution to our understanding of Canadian history. |
37. The Rise of the Mafia: The Definitive Story of Organized Crime by Martin Short | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2010-05-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Murder, violence, and corruption are words synonymous with organized crime. Its long and bloody history influences all our lives whether we know it or not. But what lies behind these shadowy organizations? Where did they come from and how did their influence become so widespread? In this extraordinary book, leading crime investigator Martin Short reveals the shocking truth of how the Mafia and other criminal organizations maintain their strength through public demand, as well as extortion and murder. The Rise of the Mafia traces the roots of modern organized crime. Martin Short has met hundreds of people with firsthand knowledge and has interviewed some of the most powerful mob masters and informers in the business as well as speaking with key police and FBI officers. |
38. Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories by Federico Varese | |
Hardcover: 304
Pages
(2011-02-09)
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39. Organized Crime: A WorldwidePerspective by Sean Grennan, Marjie T. Britz | |
Paperback: 528
Pages
(2005-11-25)
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Most comprehensive book available
Great for class
Awful read |
40. Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family by John H. Davis | |
Mass Market Paperback: 544
Pages
(1994-06-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Here are the chilling details and deceptions that created a vast criminal empire.Here are six decades of the uncontrolled greed and lust for power of such men as Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano, and John Gotti--men for whom murder and betrayal were business as usual.From the Gambinos' powerful stranglehold on New York's construction, garment, and waterfront industries to the government's onslaught against them in the `80s and `90s, Mafia Dynasty takes you into the mysterious world of blood oaths, shifting alliances, and deadly feuds that will hold you riveted from the first page to the last. Customer Reviews (41)
The greatest Mobsters of all time
A solid mob history
Not even close
A work Italian -Americans can be proud of.
John Gotti |
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