Beyond the mafia : organized crime in the Americas

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Beyond the mafia : organized crime in the Americas

edited by Sue Mahan with Katherine O'Neil

Sage Publications, c1998

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Moving past the scope of Mafia crime families in New York and Chicago, Beyond the Mafia offers, for the first time, a comparative perspective on non-traditional organized crime in the Americas. Providing in-depth coverage of 10 criminal groups, the focus of organized crime expands to Canada and Latin America, offering an extensive American view of organized crime from outside the traditional Mafia. Although the groups covered have contemporary significance, chapters include a historical overview as well as future considerations. Editor Sue Mahan has coordinated a coherent paradigm for the comparative study of organized crime: Part I introduces organized crime as an enterprise and explores patterns found in legitimate business along with those in criminal organizations. Part II discusses the role of violence in organized crime. Part III covers the concept of ethnicity and the relevance of culture to organized criminal groups. Part IV addresses the issue of opportunity and the ways in which opportunities for success are structured within organized crime. Finally, a concluding section explains the relationships between criminal justice policy and organized crime. This book is a valuable text of considerable interest for university and community college students in courses on organized crime, criminology, and crime in the Americas; scholars and researchers; and professionals in the criminal justice system who are developing policies in response to organized crime.

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PART ONE: ILLICIT ENTERPRISE Discussion Corporate Crime The Rape of the Third World - Marshall B Clinard Discussion Moonshiners The Political Economy of Mountain Dew - Wilbur R Miller PART TWO: ETHNICITY AND TRADITION Discussion Chinese Gangs Gang Characteristics - Ko-Lin Chin Discussion The Yakuza North America - David E Kaplan and Alec Dubro Foothold on the Mainland PART THREE: VIOLENCE Discussion The Medell[gr]in Cartel La Comuna Nororiental - Mar[gr]ia Jimena Duzan Discussion The Vice Lords Excerpt from There Are No Children Here - Alex Kotlowitz PART FOUR: OPPORTUNITY Discussion Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs Women and the Outlaws - Daniel R Wolf Discussion The Russian Organizatsiya The Organizatsiya - William Kleinknecht PART FIVE: CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY Discussion Chicano Prison Gangs Baby Mafia or Family - R Theodore Davidson Discussion Pirates Pirates and Profiteers - Frank Browning and John Gerassi Epilogue Beyond the Mafia

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