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BL
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634539
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Albini, Joseph L.
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| Title & Author
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Deconstructing organized crime : : an historical and theoretical study /\ Joseph L. Albini and Jeffrey Scott McIllwain.
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vii, 209 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780786465804 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0786465808 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Preface -- Introduction -- The mystique of the mafia -- The mafia belongs to Sicily -- Searching for "our thing" -- Revision -- Organizing crime -- Survival of the fittest : from Russia to the original Sin City -- Globalization and organized criminals -- The organized crime matrix : a transnational system of social networks of organized criminal activity -- Works cited -- Index.
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"By focusing on the American experience that dominated organized crime scholarship during the second half of the 20th century as well as more recent global manifestations of transnational organized crime, tthrough a series of case studies that organized crime is best understood not as a series of famous gangsters and events but as a method of everyday life"--Provided by publisher.
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Organized crime-- History.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.10609
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HV6441.A393 2012
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McIllwain, Jeffrey Scott,1969-
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