Deconstructing organized crime: an historical and theoretical study

by Albini, Joseph L.

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Full title :Deconstructing organized crime : an historical and theoretical study / Joseph L. Albini and Jeffrey Scott McIllwain.

Summary

What is organized crime? There have been many answers over the decades from scholars, governments, the media, pop culture and criminals themselves. These answers cumulatively created a "Mafia Mystique" that dominated discourse until after the Cold War, when transnational organized crime emerged as a pronounced, if nebulous, threat to global security and stability. The authors focus both on the American experience that dominated organized crime scholarship in the second half of the 20th century and on the more recent global scene. Case studies show that organized crime is best understood not as a series of famous gangsters and events but as a structure of everyday life formed by numerous political, social, economic and anthropological variables. -- From back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Place of Publication:Jefferson, North Carolina
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 209 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780786465804, 0786465808
oclc:ocn809420834
LC Classification:HV6441
Dewey Decimal:364.10609

The mystique of the mafia -- The mafia belongs to Sicily -- Searching for "our thing" -- Revision -- Organizing crime -- Survival of the fittest : from Russia to the original Sin city -- Globalization and organized criminals -- The organized crime matrix : a transnational system of social networks of organized criminal activity.