Crime and Justice, Volume 49: Organizing Crime: Mafias, Markets, and Networks

Book Overview

For most Americans, The Godfather, The Sopranos, and the Cosa Nostra exemplify organized crime. In Asia the term conjures up images of Japanese yakuza and Chinese triads, in Italy the Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta, in Latin America Mexican narco-gangs and Colombian drug cartels, in the Netherlands transnational drug and human trafficking, and in Scandinavia outlaw motorcycle gangs. Some but not all those organizations are "mafias" with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022670839X
• ISBN13: 9780226708393
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 512 Pages