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Overview
Organized Crime in Our Times provides readers with a clear understanding of organized crime, including its definition and causes, how it is categorized under the law, models to explain its persistence, and the criminal justice response to organized crime, including investigation, prosecution, defense, and sentencing.
This book organizes information in a meaningful way, offering a comprehensive history of the Mafia in the United States; a legal analysis of the offenses that underlie organized crimes; specific attention to modern manifestations of organized crime activity, such as human smuggling, Internet crimes, and other transnational criminal operations; and the application of ethics to the study of organized crime. This edition includes new tables and figures, and special features on popular biographies and movies that tie to relevant content in the text. Appendices include a glossary and timeline on organized crime in the United States.
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Meet the Author
Jay S. Albanese is Professor in the Wilder School of Government & Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University. He served as Chief of the International Center at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, from 2002 to 2006. He is author of many articles, and author/editor of 15 books, including Anderson’s Organized Crime in Our Times. Albanese has served as Executive Director of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime, and is a past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences . He is recipient of the Elske Smith Distinguished Lecturer Award from Virginia Commonwealth University and the G.O.W. Mueller Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative/International Criminal Justice from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, International Section, and is an Academy Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Table of Contents
1. What Is Organized Crime?
2. Characteristic Organized Crimes I: Conspiracy, Provision of Illicit Goods and Services
3. Characteristic Organized Crimes II: Infiltration of Business, Extortion, and Racketeering
4. Causes of Organized Crime: Influences on Individuals
5. Paradigms of Organized Crime: Models of Organization
6. The Mafia: Facts and Myths
7. Changes in the Nature of Organized Crime: From Traditional to Modern
8. Transnational Organized Crime
9. Investigative Tools
10. Prosecution Strategies
11. Organizing a Criminal Defense
12. Sentencing Organized Crime Offenders
Glossary
Timeline of Organized Crime in the United States