1st Edition
Theft of the Nation The Structure and Operations of Organized Crime in America
Edited By Donald Cressey
Copyright 2009
396 Pages
by
Routledge
396 Pages
by
Routledge
393 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
I: Trouble; II: From Mafia to Cosa Nostra; III: War, Peace, and Peaceful Coexistence; IV: Educating the Public; V: Demand, Supply, and Profit; VI: The Structural Skeleton; VII: Origins of the Authority Structure; VIII: The Code; IX: Some Functions of the Code; X: Shifting Patterns of Authority and Recruitment; XI: Corruption of the Law-Enforcement and Political Systems; XII: Search, Destroy, and Appease
Biography
Donald Cressey
