Disorganized Crime: Illegal Markets and the Mafia

by Peter Reuter

Book Overview

Winner of the 9984 Leslie T. Wilkins Award for the best book in criminology and criminal justice. Bookmaking, numbers, and loansharking are reputed to be major sources of revenue for organized crime, controlled by the "visible hand" of violence. For years this belief has formed the basis of government policy toward illegal markets. Drawing on police files, confiscated records, and interviews with police, prosecutors, and criminal informants, Reuter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262680483
• ISBN13: 9780262680486
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"