Research Catalog

Title

Perspectives on organizing crime : essays in opposition / by Alan A. Block.

Author

Block, Alan A.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers ; Norwell, MA, U.S.A. : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1991.

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Details

Description

xi, 264 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

Organized crime > United States > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I : The historical perspective -- 1. History and the study of organized crime -- 2. Contemporary reports on organized crime : errors of historical interpretation -- Pt. II : Organizing the drug trade -- 3. Organizing the cocaine trade in progressive-era New York -- 4. European drug trafficking between the great wars -- Pt. III : New ventures -- 5. Organized crime, garbage, and toxic waste : an overview -- 6. The need for the waste industry disclosure law -- Pt. IV : The state, organized crime and political murder -- 7. Fascism, organized crime and foreign policy : the assassination of Carlo Tresca -- 8. Violence, corruption, and clientelism : the Assassination of Jesus de Galindez -- Pt. V : Dilemmas and ambiguities in crime control -- 9. Crisis in the Internal Revenue Service : the demise of the Intelligence Division -- 10. Anti-communism and the war on drugs -- Pt. VI : Reflections on the history and criminology -- 11. American criminals abroad.

ISBN

0792310330 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^90019152^

OCLC

22509421

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library