Organized crime / Michael D. Lyman, Gary W. Potter
Imprint
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007
Edition
4th ed
Descript
xvi, 496 p. ; 26 cm
CONTENT
Understanding organized crime -- Theories of organized criminal behavior -- The Evolution of organized crime: urban beginnings and major participants -- The Evolution of organized crime: Southern beginnings and major participants -- The Businesses of organized crime -- The Illict drug trade -- Domestic organized crime groups -- A Comparative perspective -- Terrorism as organized crime -- Organized crime's political and corporate alliances -- Controlling organized crime