Theft of the Nation: The Structure and Operations of Organized Crime in America

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Routledge, New Brunswick, NJ, 2008

1412807646 / 9781412807647

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Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is gently creased; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Black and white illustrated wrapper with blue and white lettering. 367 historical and informative pages! "Organized crime in America today is not the tough hoodlums familiar to moviegoers and TV watchers. It is more sophisticated, with many college graduates, gifted with organizational genius, all belonging to twenty-four tightly knit "families," who have corrupted legitimate business and infiltrated some of the highest levels of local, state, and federal government. Their power reaches into Congress, into the executive and judicial branches, police agencies, and labor unions, and into such business enterprises as real estate, retail stores, restaurants, hotels, linen-supply houses, and garbage-collection routes. How does organized crime operate? How dangerous is it? What are the implications for American society? How may we cope with it? In answering these questions, Cressey asserts that because organized crime provides illicit goods and services demanded by legitimate society, it has become part of legitimate society. This fascinating account reveals the parallels: the growth of specialization, "big-business practices" (pooling of capital and reinvestment of profits; fringe benefits like bail money), and government practices (negotiated settlements and peace treaties, defined territories, fair-trade agreements). For too long we have, as a society, concerned ourselves only with superficial questions about organized crime. Theft of the Nation focuses on to a more profound and searching level. Of course, organized crime exists. Cressey not only establishes this fact, but proceeds to explore it rigorously and with penetration. One need not agree with everything Cressey writes to conclude that no one, after the publication of Theft of the Nation, can be knowledgeable about organized crime without having read this book.".…

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Titel
Theft of the Nation: The Structure and Operations of Organized Crime in America
Autor
Cressey, Donald
Verlag
Routledge, New Brunswick, NJ
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Zustand
Good
Einband
Soft cover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1412807646
ISBN-13
9781412807647
Auflage
1st Edition
Druck
1st Printing
Artikelgewicht
20 Unzen
Abmessungen
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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