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Hardcover
Edition: 8
Author: Howard Abadinsky
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Release Date: 2006-06-02
ISBN-10: 0495092134
ISBN-13: 9780495092131
List Price: $121.95
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Abadinsky provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of the origins, history, theoretical explanations, and structure of domestic and international organized crime, including drug trafficking, gambling, and loan sharking. The author also explains the methods employed by law enforcement agencies to combat organized crime, and the policy decisions reached by various investigating committees and commissions, including the President's Commission on Organized Crime.
Excellent Textbook on Organized Crime...
| Customer Rating: | The latest edition of Howard Abadinsky's "Organized Crime" is a superb textbook and teaching resource on the full spectrum of organized crime, from its origins to the methods used to greater or lesser success by law enforcement to combat it.
Abadinsky, who has extensive background in law enforcement, employs a commonsense approach to defining organized crime and describing its most commonly found structures. An extensive background history on organized crime reveals just how deeply the phenomenon is embedded in American society. His descriptions of the various ethnic groups that have dominated organized crime at different periods of American history is graphic and even-handed. His narrative of the movement of organized crime into white collar crime is extremely insightful.
Abadinsky's discussion of the sociological and psychological basis of organized crime is clear and understandable, and accounts for the different circumstances of some of the major groups involved in organized crime. At the same time, Abadinsky avoids the techno-babble often found layered over this aspect of organized crime.
Other chapters discuss the elements of traditional organized crime focus areas, along with the agencies that combat organized crime and the tools available to them. Throughout, Abadinsky provides lots of specific examples and profiles of famous and infamous persons involved in organized crime, from crime bosses to corrupt politicians to labor union involvement with organized crime.
"Organized Crime" clearly conveys the pervasive reach of organized crime in the United States and is very highly recommended as a teaching resource for criminology and justice instruction. |
Excellent!
| Customer Rating: | | Great condition, shipped quickly as promised. This book is well written and is being used by my college student who is studying Crime & Justice. We are completely satisfied. |
Alright.
| Customer Rating:  | | In a word, this book "sucks." I had to purchase it for a class in which I am currently using. Yea, it has an ABUNDANCE of useful information, but the part that gets me is the fact that if your teacher uses Abadinsky's testing booklet, it's all wrong. It's even been discussed in our class at how off the test questions are as opposed to what's in his book. If possible, which is hard when it comes to textbooks, buy another. |
Excellent text for Criminal Justice majors
| Customer Rating: | | I am a college professor who just finished teaching ORGANIZED CRIME to twenty college juniors and seniors. I selected Abadinsky's book as the text because it is carefully and thoughtfully "choreographed." The information provided flows in a sensible and clearly written design. Some texts appear to be designed for Rhodes Scholars and are virtually impossible to read. This is not the case with this great book! I recommend it to teachers and those who have in interest in this fascinating subject. |
Organized Crime's concept, empircial evidence and current LE
| Customer Rating: | | If you (the reader, the researcher) is interested in Organized Crime, I strongly recommend this book (Howard Abadinsky's Organized Crime, 6th Ed.) This book is the only detailed book I have come across in studying Organized Crime. I am currently a criminal justice graduate student attending the University of Central Florida. RSB |
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