Library Catalogue

Location

Public Safety Canada Library

Resource

e-Books

Authors

• McCarthy, D. M. P. (Dennis Michael Patrick), 1944-
• NetLibrary, Inc.

Publishers

• Abingdon, Oxon
• New York, NY :  Routledge, 2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description

1 online resource (xi, 323 p.)

Summary

This book is a comparative study of organized crime groups from five different parts of the world. It provides an overview of the growing scourge of global organized crime.

Subject

• Organized crime - History.
• Mafia - History.
• Transnational crime - History.
• Crime - Economic aspects.

Contents

Part I: Europe -- 1. The ABCs of a comparative economic history of organized crime: a national and transnational approach -- 2. Italian mafias -- 3. Russian mafias -- 4. Vignette : Albanian mafia.
Part II: North America -- 5. US mafia -- 6. Mexican drug cartels -- 7. Vignette : organized crime in Canada.
Part III: Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Basin -- 8. The Colombian drug cartels -- 9. Gangs of the Caribbean -- 10. Vignette : organized crime in Cuba.
Part IV: Africa -- 11. Resource wars -- 12. Somali piracy -- 13. Vignette : international trugs, trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism in North and West Africa.
Part V: Asia and Western Pacific -- 14. Triads -- 15. Yakuza -- 16. Vignette : international drugs trafficking, organized scrime, and terrorism in Afghanistan.

Series

Routledge studies in crime and economics.