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

ISBN-13: 9780367305956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 294 str.

Alan A. Block

Opis

Difficult to access for scholarly study, organized crime is best documented in judicial findings and in legislative reports from criminal investigations and public hearings. In this book, Alan Block has assembled a rich cross section of these reports.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Business of Organized Crime -- The Process -- An Investigation of the Loan-Shark Racket -- Labor Racketeering Activities of Jack McCarthy and National Consultants Associated, Ltd -- Industries Under Siege -- The Return of the Sweatshop -- An Investigation Concerning Racketeer Activities in Connection with the Air Freight Industry in the New York Metropolitan Area -- Waterfront Corruption -- Criminal Infiltration of the Toxic and Solid Waste Disposal Industries in New York State -- Declaration of Joseph Hauser Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, April 27, 1983 -- Fighting Back -- Oversight Inquiry of the Department of Labor’s Investigation of the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund -- Government’s Memorandum of Law in Support of Its Motion for Preliminary Relief

O autorze

Alan A. Block is professor of administration of justice at The Pennsylvania State University.