Organized Crime

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CRIME
THE CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD REVEALED
AN INTERNATIONAL WEB OF CRIME
The first fally illustrated book to profilé all of the major organized crime syndicates operating in the world today.
HOW ORGANIZED CRIME WORKS
Reveals organized crime's lines of business and the methods and tools of the trade used to amass vast profits from illegal markets.
THE MEN BEHIND THE MYTHS
Dramatic archive and modern photographs, compelling case studies, maps, and graphics provide visual documentation to the extraordinary lives and violent times of the world's most notorious mobsters, crime families, Street gangs, and syndicates.
ORGANIZED
CRIME
One of the world's oldest industries—and certainly its
biggest moneymaker-organized crime came of age in the 20th century. Today, with transformations in the global economy and huge technological advances, organized crime groups are adapting and widening their lucrative illegal operations even further.
GLOBAL CRIMINAL ALLIANCES
Organized Crime... Tovább

Fülszöveg

CRIME
THE CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD REVEALED
AN INTERNATIONAL WEB OF CRIME
The first fally illustrated book to profilé all of the major organized crime syndicates operating in the world today.
HOW ORGANIZED CRIME WORKS
Reveals organized crime's lines of business and the methods and tools of the trade used to amass vast profits from illegal markets.
THE MEN BEHIND THE MYTHS
Dramatic archive and modern photographs, compelling case studies, maps, and graphics provide visual documentation to the extraordinary lives and violent times of the world's most notorious mobsters, crime families, Street gangs, and syndicates.
ORGANIZED
CRIME
One of the world's oldest industries—and certainly its
biggest moneymaker-organized crime came of age in the 20th century. Today, with transformations in the global economy and huge technological advances, organized crime groups are adapting and widening their lucrative illegal operations even further.
GLOBAL CRIMINAL ALLIANCES
Organized Crime reveals how the traditional Italian and American mafias have forged links with Colombia's drugs cartels, Russia's "Mafiya," China's triads,Japan's yakuza, and other highly organized and sophisticated crime syndicates around the world to create a formidable international web of crime.
THE CHANGING FACE OF ORGANIZED CRIME
This book traces the evolution of organized criminal activity from piracy and secret societies to the emergence of today's úrban "businessmen." Each of the major crime groups is profiled, detailing their origins and strncture, methods,
territories, codes of behavior, and rites and rituals, and revealing just how far their tentacles reach into legitimate business and government.
CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES
The authors alsó lift the lid on the murky underworld economy, with an overview of the wide spectrum of organized criminal activity, which includes crimes against people—from migrant-smuggling through prostitution to slavery—and economic crimes such as money-laundering, and fraud scams. Vissza