Organized crime and American power : a history /

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"Organized crime, understood in a literal sense as systematic illegal activity for money or power, is as old as the first systems of law and government and as international as trade. Piracy, banditry, kidnapping, extortion, forgery, fraud, and trading in stolen or illegal goods and services are...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Woodiwiss, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Organized crime > United States.
Organized crime > United States > Prevention > History.
Organized crime > Political aspects > United States.
Crime organisé > États-Unis.
Crime organisé > États-Unis > Prévention > Histoire.
Crime organisé > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
TRUE CRIME > Organized Crime.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Organized crime > Political aspects.
Organized crime.
Organized crime > Prevention.
Georganiseerde misdaad.
Macht.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Old world antecedents and the rise of American power
  • Whitewash: racism, xenophobia, and the origins of 'organized crime' in the United States
  • Organized crime and corporate power, 1865-1950
  • America's moral crusade and the organization of illegal markets, 1789-1950
  • Organized crime and the dumbing of American discourse, 1920 to the present
  • Industrial and corporate racketeering, 1950 to the present
  • Drugs: private enterprise and government bounty
  • American power and the dumbing of global discourse.

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