Description |
1 online resource (xi, 323 pages). |
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Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Series |
Routledge studies in crime and economics
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Routledge studies in crime and economics.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The ABCs of a comparative economic history of organized crime : a national and transnational approach -- Europe -- Italian mafias -- Russian mafias -- Vignette : Albanian mafia -- North America -- US mafia -- Mexican drug cartels -- Vignette : organized crime in Canada -- Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Basin -- Colombian drug cartels -- Gangs of the Caribbean -- Vignette : organized crime in Cuba -- Africsoa -- Resource wars -- Somali piracy -- Vignette : international trugs, trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism in North and West Africa -- Asia and Western Pacific -- Triads -- Yakuza -- Vignette : international drugs trafficking, organized scrime, and terrorism in Afghanistan. |
Summary |
Written in non-specialist language, An Economic History of Organized Crime provides an original overview of a crucial problem of our times: the growing scourge of global organized crime. This book can be read with profit by the general public, but it also has value for academic specialists and professionals in law enforcement. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Organized crime -- History.
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Organized crime. |
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History. |
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Mafia -- History.
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Mafia. |
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Transnational crime -- History.
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Transnational crime. |
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Crime -- Economic aspects.
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Crime -- Economic aspects. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: McCarthy, Dennis M.P., 1944- Economic history of organized crime. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011 9780415487962 (DLC) 2010050461 (OCoLC)651915007 |
ISBN |
9780203814253 (electronic book) |
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0203814258 (electronic book) |
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1283435047 |
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9781283435048 |
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9786613435040 |
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661343504X |
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9781136705816 |
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1136705813 |
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9780415487962 (alkaline paper) |
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041548796X (alkaline paper) |
Standard No. |
3627293 |
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