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Double crossed : the failure of organized crime control / Michael Woodiwiss

Author
Woodiwiss, Michael
Published
London : Pluto Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 286 pages)
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Contents
Dumbing down : constructing an acceptable understanding of "organized crime" -- Lies about criminals : constructing an acceptable "history" of organized crime -- Covering up failure : constructing an acceptable response to "organized crime" -- Selling failure : setting the global agenda on drugs, organized crime and money laundering.
Summary
Gangsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano are infamous as figureheads of organized crime, which is now synonymous with criminal groups such as the Mafia. Michael Woodiwiss reveals a more disturbing side to organized crime, in which government officals and wider business communities are deeply complicit. Woodiwiss shows how control policies on systematized crime are mired in corruption, legitimizing repression and concealing failure. Delving into attempts to implement such policies in the US, Italy and the UK, Woodiwiss reveals little-known manifestations of organized crime among the political and corporate establishments. Woodiwiss examines those who constructed and then benefitted from this mythmaking. These include the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, opportunistic American politicians and officials and, more recently, law enforcement bureaucracies, led by the FBI. -- from back cover.
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ISBN
9781786800930 (electronic bk.)
1786800934 (electronic bk.)
9781786800954 (Kindle eBook)
1786800950 (Kindle eBook)
9781786800947 (EPUB eBook)
1786800942 (EPUB eBook)
9780745332024 hardcover
0745332021 hardcover
9780745332017 paperback
0745332013 paperback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and index.
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