Organized crime / Howard Abadinsky.

Previously published: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-462) and indexes.

Introduction to organized crime -- Development of organized crime in the United States -- The American mafia -- Explaining organized crime in -- Italian organized crime and teh Albanian connection -- Latin American organized crime -- Black organized crime -- Asian organized crime -- Russian organized crime -- Outlaw motorcycle clubs -- "Goods and Services" : gambling, loansharking, theft, fencing, sex, trafficking in persons, arms, and counterfeit products -- Organized crime and drug trafficking -- Organized crime in labor, business, and money laundering -- Organized crime : statutes -- Organized crime : law enforcement.

Ever dynamic, organized crime continues to change. Efforts to combat one aspect of the phenomenon, the American Mafia, have reached high levels of prosecutorial success--resulting in a decline in the organization's relative importance. Meanwhile, criminal organizations operating on a global scale have become more sophisticated and more threatening, and additional crime groups have been added to the pantheon we refer to as organized crime. Reflecting changes that have occurred in recent years, this edition updates information and analyses of organized crime as well as efforts to deal with it.