The Business of Crime: A Documentary Study of Organized Crime in the American Economy

Difficult to access for scholarly study, organized crime is possibly best documented in judicial findings and in legislative reports based on long-term investigations and public hearings. In this book, Alan Block has assembled a cross-section of these reports. Taken together, they help to illustrate how organized crime has infiltrated key industries and taken control of union pension and welfare funds. Designed for scholars and for students of criminology, sociology and deviance, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the business of crime in America today.