MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01732cam a2200289 i 4500
001 2012032462
003 DLC
005 20130205090423.0
008 120906s2012 ncu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012032462
020 $a9780786465804 (softcover : acid free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aHV6441$b.A393 2012
082 00 $a364.10609$223
100 1 $aAlbini, Joseph L.
245 10 $aDeconstructing organized crime :$ban historical and theoretical study /$cJoseph L. Albini and Jeffrey Scott McIllwain.
264 1 $aJefferson, North Carolina :$bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,$c[2012]
300 $avii, 209 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index.
505 0 $aPreface -- Introduction -- The mystique of the mafia -- The mafia belongs to Sicily -- Searching for "our thing" -- Revision -- Organizing crime -- Survival of the fittest : from Russia to the original Sin city -- Globalization and organized criminals -- The organized crime matrix : a transnational system of social networks of organized criminal activity -- Works cited -- Index.
520 $a"By focusing on the American experience that dominated organized crime scholarship during the second half of the 20th century as well as more recent global manifestations of transnational organized crime, tthrough a series of case studies that organized crime is best understood not as a series of famous gangsters and events but as a method of everyday life"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aOrganized crime$xHistory.
700 1 $aMcIllwain, Jeffrey Scott,$d1969-