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Westport, CT Greenwood Press 1994 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued 0313283664. Gray cloth, nearly new with very slight age toning of endpapers, and a hint of shelf rubbing on lower boards. Hard to find title from private collection, NOT x-library.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 560 pages.

Westport, CT Greenwood 1994 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 560 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Intended for a juvenile audience.

Westport, CT Greenwood 1994 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 560 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white.

New York Greenwood 1994 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 560 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white.

Greenwood 1994 hardcover Good Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

ISBN10: 0313283664, ISBN13: 9780313283666, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. This text is an assessment of organised crime in America and of the law enforcement strategies and activities to control it since the Prohibition era. This survey addresses the key questions and analyses the issues that make up the debate historically about the nature of organised crime, its roots, causes, forms, growth, and control, and, above all, its pernicious effect upon the economic, social, political and moral life of the nation. This one-volume reference defines key problems and recent trends, reviews the basic research about organised crime, describes organised crime groups and their operations through the years, and surveys the broad range of government policies and operations to control crime during the 20th century. Interdisciplinary audiences, specialists in criminal justice and deviant behaviour, and general readers should consider it useful reading given the major new challenges that crime poses for Americans in the 1990s. Lengthy bibliographical data and a full index enrich this study for the use of college, university, organisational, and public libraries. Internationally known authorities in criminal justice provide one of the most comprehensive and detailed surveys today of the diverse ethnic and racial groups in the criminal underworld and their grave threats to the very fabric of American society. Shipping may be from multiple ...

ISBN10: 0313283664, ISBN13: 9780313283666, [publisher: Greenwood] Hardcover Like New
[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1994]