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Organised crime.

9781843921400

Organised crime.

Wright, Alan A`lan´   

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Willan Publishing

2006

237 pages

$34.95

Paperback

HV6441

This work by Wright (an honorary research fellow at Keele U., UK) aims to be an introductory analysis of organized crime accessible to undergraduate students that approaches the subject at a reasonable theoretical level. Following an opening chapter considering problems of conceptualization con·cep·tu·al·ize  
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To form a concept or concepts of, and especially to interpret in a conceptual way:
 and definition, he discusses the nature of gang life; key activities such as "enterprise" crime and drug and people trafficking; organized crimes origins and growth in Europe Europe (yr`əp), 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). , China, Japan, the US, Russia, and the UK; and issues of control and law enforcement domestically and internationally. Distributed in the US by ISBS ISBS International Society of Biomechanics in Sports
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