An Economic History of Organized Crime : A National and Transnational Approach

ISBN-13: 9780415487962 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 336 str.

Dennis M. P. McCarthy

Opis

In this text, McCarthy looks at what economic history can tell us about organized crime - its origins, rise and spread and asks whether there are things in the history of organized crime that might help us better understand its present and future?

Spis treści

1. The ABCs of a Comparative Economic History of Organized Crime: A National and Transnational Approach  Part 1: Europe  2. Italian Mafias  3. Russian Mafias  4. Vignette: Albanian Mafia  Part 2: North America  5. US Mafia  6. Mexican Drug Cartels  7. Vignette: Organized Crime in Canada  Part 3: Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Basin  8. Colombian Drug Cartels  9. Gangs of the Caribbean  10. Vignette: Organized Crime in Cuba  Part 4: AfricSoa  11. Resource Wars  12. Somali Piracy  13. Vignette: International Trugs, Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Terrorism in North and West Africa  Part 5: Asia and Western Pacific  14. Triads  15. Yakuza  16. Vignette: International Drugs Trafficking, Organized sCrime and Terrorism in Afghanistan.  Bibliography

O autorze

Dennis M. P. McCarthy is an Associate Professor Emeritus of History, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.