Understanding Organized Crime: . (Criminal Justice Illuminated)
Book Details
Author(s)Mallory, Stephen L.
PublisherJones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN / ASIN1449648045
ISBN-139781449648046
AvailabilityOnly 2 left in stock - order soon.
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
- Revised and updated to include new and relevant research, statistics, and case studies to help students understand the true nature of organized crime and the players involved.
- Chapter 5 (Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations) has been updated to include the most recent information on new alliances and wars over territories and smuggling routes between established cartels and emerging organizations in Mexico.
- A new chapter, The Nexus of Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism, addresses the increasing connections between terrorist groups and transnational organized crime, including new challenges facing governments and law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting these cooperative networks.
- Provides information outlining the new age of piracy that has resulted in the creation of task forces that focus on areas around the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia.
- Additional and updated information is now included in the chapters on the Russian Mafia, the Italian-American Mafia, the Yakuza, and Outlaw Bikers.
- Every new copy of this textbook includes an access code to the companion website. The access code will unlock a variety of interactive study tools designed specifically to accompany this text.
