Galeotti (Mark), Organised Crime in History
The popular press is full of stories about the threat from organised crime – from the Mafia (the word that has become synonymous with organised crime), from the Russian Mafia, Columbian drugs cartels, Chinese Triads, Japanese Yakuza, Jamaican Yardies and so on. Criminal justice professionals co-ope...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2010
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | The popular press is full of stories about the threat from organised crime – from the Mafia (the word that has become synonymous with organised crime), from the Russian Mafia, Columbian drugs cartels, Chinese Triads, Japanese Yakuza, Jamaican Yardies and so on. Criminal justice professionals co-operate and collaborate against it; politicians proclaim it a major threat and indeed in 2003 the United Nations ratified a Convention on Transnational Organised Crime. It is declared to be a modern p... |
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