Allyn & Bacon / Prentice Hall

Criminal Justice



Organized Crime, 4/E
Michael D. Lyman, Columbia College
Gary W. Potter, Kentucky University

ISBN-10: 0131730363
ISBN-13: 9780131730366

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Cloth; 512 pp
Published: 08/01/2006

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For courses in Introduction to Organized Crime.

 

Dispelling current myths regarding organized crime, Lyman and Potter’s fourth edition reveals a truer picture of organized crime and criminal activity today.  Providing scholarly treatment and a social perspective, the authors explore the concept of organized crime, the historical foundation for its evolution and development, and the current status of criminal groups in today’s society. Offering timely and respected research, this edition includes a thorough examination of drug trafficking, new sections on emerging organized crime groups, updated case studies, more coverage international groups, updated statistics, graphics and more!

For courses in Introduction to Organized Crime.

 

Dispelling current myths regarding organized crime, Lyman and Potter’s fourth edition reveals a truer picture of organized crime and criminal activity today.  Providing scholarly treatment and a social perspective, the authors explore the concept of organized crime, the historical foundation for its evolution and development, and the current status of criminal groups in today’s society. Offering timely and respected research, this edition includes a thorough examination of drug trafficking, new sections on emerging organized crime groups, updated case studies, more coverage international groups, updated statistics, graphics and more!

 

HALLMARK FEATURES

 

Dispels popular myths regarding organized crime–and provides a more in-depth look at the topic.

  • Presents a broad view of organized crime that incorporates more than just ethnically- driven, pop-culture stereotypes.
  • Includes coverage of African-American, Mexican, Russian, and Nigerian criminal groups and examines their increasingly important role.
  • Discusses terrorism and how terrorist groups are structured more like traditional organized crime groups. 

Incorporates two parallel themes–organized crime consists of many different groups and corrupt individuals in public office, business etc., contribute to the continuation of the problem.

  • Provides a framework for examining organized crime in a more critical context. 

Examines organized crime from a social perspective–throughout the text.

  • Provides an academic treatment that promotes scholarly thought.
  • Uses thematic questions (What is organized crime? Is there really a Mafia? Is terrorism organized crime? Do political machines still exist?) to promote higher-order thinking skills and a critical examination of the topic.

Provides a strong historical foundation–throughout the text.

  • Presents the historical foundations for understanding the evolution, development, and current status of organized crime.
  • Synthesizes volumes of historical data and archives to present the most salient aspects of the organized crime problem. 

Incorporates current and respected research–throughout the text.

  • References information and reports generated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, the National Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Statistics and well-known researchers in the field. 

Examines the role of drug trafficking in organized crime–in Chapter 6 and throughout the text.

  • Examines how drug trafficking contributes to the proliferation of organized crime groups. 

Offers extensive pedagogy–such as chapter objectives, critical thinking exercises, chapter summaries, key terms, You Decide sections and suggested readings.

  • Reinforces chapter concepts and provides class discussion and individual assignment material.

 

NEW TOPICS–Fully updated materials regarding organized crime such as:

  • Organized crime’s emerging groups
  • Redefining organized crime
  • Drug trafficking cartels
  • Chinese organized crime
  • Nigerian and Dominican drug traffickers
  • Albanian drug smuggling networks
  • Organized crime and the Bush’s
  • Japanese Yakuza
  • Tri-border Area organized crime activities
  • Updated case studies
  • Updated statistics and graphics

1.      Understanding Organized Crime

2.      Theories of Organized Criminal Behavior

3.      The Evolution of Organized Crime: Urban Beginnings and Major Participants

4.      The Evolution of Organized Crime: Southern Beginnings and Major Participants

5.      The Businesses of Organized Crime

6.      The Illicit Drug Trade

7.      Domestic Organized Crime Groups

8.      A Comparative Perspective

9.      Terrorism as Organized Crime

10.  Organized Crime’s Political and Corporate Alliance

11.  Controlling Organized Crime

 

REFERENCES 

APPENDIX A: SELECTED PROVISIONS FROM THE 2001 USA PATRIOT ACT 

APPENDIX B: CHRONOLOGY OF WHITE SUPREMACIST DOMESTIC TERRORIST INCIDENTS IN THE 1980s

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