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"This book presents a comprehensive view of the financial and non-financial consequences of criminal behavior, crime prevention, and society's response to crime. Crime costs are far-reaching including medical costs, lost wages, property damage and pain, suffering, and reduced qu…
"This book presents a comprehensive view of the financial and non-financial consequences of criminal behavior, crime prevention, and society's response to crime. Crime costs are far-reaching including medical costs, lost wages, property damage and pain, suffering, and reduced qu…
This book is a comparative study of organized crime groups from five different parts of the world. It provides an overview of the growing scourge of global organized crime.
Organized crime is a growing international phenomenon and, as it intersects with terrorism, an increasingly dangerous force. Organized crime has been studied from the perspectives of many scholarly disciplines, and there is a massive literature on the topic created by academics,…
In this text, McCarthy looks at what economic history can tell us about organized crime - its origins, rise and spread and asks whether there are things in the history of organized crime that might help us better understand its present and future?
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 …
While worldwide crime is declining overall, criminality in Latin America has reached unprecedented levels that have ushered in social unrest and political turmoil. Despite major political and economic gains, crime has increased in every Latin American country over the past 25 ye…