Description: Further DetailsTitle: Double CrossedCondition: NewEAN: 9780745332017ISBN: 9780745332017Publisher: Pluto PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/20/2017Item Height: 215mmItem Length: 135mmAuthor: Michael WoodiwissLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Failure of Organized Crime ControlISBN-10: 0745332013Description: In the United States, the popular symbols of organised crime are still Depression-era figures such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky - thought to be heads of giant, hierarchically organised mafias. In Double Crossed, Michael Woodiwiss challenges perpetuated myths to reveal a more disturbing reality of organised crime - one in which government officials and the wider establishment are deeply complicit.Delving into attempts to implement policies to control organised crime in the US, Italy and the UK, Woodiwiss reveals little-known manifestations of organised crime among the political and corporate establishment. A follow up to his 2005 Gangster Capitalism, Woodiwiss broadens and brings his argument up to the present by examining those who constructed and then benefited from myth making. These include the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, opportunistic American politicians and officials and, more recently, law enforcement bureaucracies, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Organised crime control policies now tend to legitimise repression and cover-up failure. They do little to control organised crime. While the US continues to export its organised crime control template to the rest of the world, opportunities for successful criminal activity proliferate at local, national and global levels, making successful prosecutions irrelevant.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Society & CultureItem Weight: 381gTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Double Crossed
Title: Double Crossed
EAN: 9780745332017
ISBN: 9780745332017
Release Date: 06/20/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: The Failure of Organized Crime Control
ISBN-10: 0745332013
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Double Crossed : the Failure of Organized Crime Control
Publisher: Pluto Press
Subject: Political Process / General, General
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 13.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Michael Woodiwiss
Subject Area: Political Science, True Crime
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
