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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Knox, George W., 1950- author. Gangs and organized crime New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 (DLC) 2018012714 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George W Knox; Gregg W Etter; Carter F Smith |
ISBN: | 9781482244236 1482244233 9781138614772 1138614777 |
OCLC Number: | 1028596251 |
Description: | 512 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Gang and organized crime history and foundations -- Los Angeles area street gangs -- Chicago area street gangs -- Outlaw motorcycle gangs -- Prison gangs -- Females in the gang world -- Gangs and violence -- Gangs and the military -- Asian, East Asian, and African organized crime -- Italian organized crime -- Russian and other European organized crime -- Drug and other trafficking organizations in the Americas -- Investigation and prosecution of gangs and organized crime groups. |
Responsibility: | George W. Knox, Gregg W. Etter, and Carter F. Smith. |
Abstract:
Gangs and Organized Crime offers an informed and carefully investigated examination of gangs and organized crime groups.
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...[T]he work offers high quality gang scholarship by academic experts with varying degrees of on the street and investigative experience that helps to better ground the work. It would be highly useful for both undergraduate and graduate level courses in criminal justice as well and may provide background material for law enforcement and military investigators and related personnel.--Small Wars Journal, 2019 Read more...

