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This book examines the reported criminal behavior of the entire spectrum of 1% biker clubs and members. It identifies the clubs whose members have been involved in criminal behavior and classifies their behaviors as individual, group, or club- sponsored/condoned behavior. While other books examine the criminal exploits of one or more of what are called the "Big Five" biker clubs because of their size and sophistication, or the sensational crimes of lesser known 1% biker clubs or club members, this book pays attention to the criminal activities of individuals, groups and chapters of other clubs as well. The book is based on journalistic accounts and autobiographies of former and present members of biker clubs, academic/scholarly works, law enforcement/government reports, articles from newspapers and biker web sites, and a content analysis of federal and state court cases regarding bikers and motorcycle clubs.Text enhanced with numerous photos and figures. Author: Thomas Barker Paperback: 190 pages Company: Anderson (2007-10-15) ISBN: 1593454066 List Price: $31.95 Amazon Price: $29.00 Used Price: $18.45 
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the worldwide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal trade accounts for one-fifth of the global GDP.In this fearless and wholly authoritative investigation of the seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares, veteran reporter Misha Glenny travels across five continents to speak with participants from every level of the global underworld—police, victims, politicians, and even the criminals themselves. What follows is a groundbreaking, propulsive look at an unprecedented phenomenon from a savvy, street-wise guide. Author: Misha Glenny Paperback: 416 pages Company: Vintage (2009-04-07) (2009-04-07) ISBN: 1400095123 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $7.35 Used Price: $5.26 
Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centersfrom Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and multinational corporate financial holdings. Delving into the scandals, the financial structure, and the history of this hidden side of globalization, sociologist Alain Deneault depicts something larger and more ominous than simple tax havens” where financial elites and corporations must reside X days out of every calendar year to protect their earnings. Instead, Offshore describes a global base of operations from which massive criminal enterprises and corrupt corporations operate freely and with impunity, menacing developing nations and advanced democracies alike. Author: Alain Deneault Hardcover: 224 pages Company: New Press, The (2011-10-04) ISBN: 1595586482 List Price: $23.95 Amazon Price: $13.47 Used Price: $11.65 
From piracy to counterfeiting to cargo theft, organized retail crime has exploded into a $38 billion industry. Synchronized global teams of thieves are pilfering immense volumes of high-value products, counterfeiting even more--and using the profits to support the world’s most vicious terrorists and criminal gangs. In this eye-opening piece of investigative journalism, top business reporter Hitha Prabhakar connects the dots and follows the money deep into the world’s fastest-growing criminal industry. You'll learn how the Internet, social media, and disposable cell phones have opened the floodgates for a new generation of criminals--and how buying something as innocent as a counterfeit handbag or discounted cigarettes actually funds terrorist groups from Al-Qaeda to Central America’s drug lords. Black Market Billions draws on extensive first person interviews with law enforcement, industry, and the criminals themselves to reveal how retail crime rings impact the security in every country in which they operate. Prabhakar goes "inside" to reveal why the piracy economy has exploded...why preventive measures have failed...and what to expect next, as organized retail crime reaches a terrifying critical mass. Author: Hitha Prabhakar Hardcover: 336 pages Company: FT Press (2011-11-21) ISBN: 0132180243 List Price: $29.99 Amazon Price: $17.87 Used Price: $14.11 
There just isn’t enough time for Dmitry. America's favorite fictional crime boss, Dmitry Medlov, had a very macabre start to his larger-than-life existence. In the short story series, The Chronicles of Young Dmitry Medlov, volume one explores the inner-struggles of a rogue teen and his rocky rise in the feared organized crime group, the Vory v Zakone, before he became a billionaire underworld Czar. Accidentally released from prison at the age of 18, Dmitry Medlov has 48 hours to assassinate a Ukrainian drug lord and get both he and his brother, Ivan, on a plane to London, before the authorities realize that the teenage hit-man is on the loose. With the clock ticking, he hikes back to Moscow through a snow storm to discover that life has gone on without him. When he left, he was a feared earner for his underboss, Kirill. But as he returns, he finds that many things have changed including the lives of the people he cared for the most. Baby brother Ivan isn’t a little boy anymore, and he’s showing signs of being a heartless sociopath. Following in his big brother’s footsteps, this bad boy can’t be trusted around his two most favorite toys - automatic machine guns and hunting knives. Trying to keep Ivan in line proves to be an on-going nightmare for Dmitry as he realizes that his brother might eventually be the end of him. And while love was never on the agenda for Dmitry, the woman he cared deeply for has recently gotten engaged to a common wife beater. When Dmitry finds out, there might be one murder in Moscow for free. While most kids are learning how to drive and going off to college at his age, Dmitry Medlov is cutting his teeth on murder, sex and mayhem. This coming of age story is not like any other. Understand why the Medlov men became global threats through their feared brotherhood in the twelve-volume series that will take you jet setting around the world. Note to Readers: Volume 2 will come out in December and a new story will post monthly, thereafter.. Author: Latrivia Nelson Kindle Edition: 62 pages Kindle eBook Company: RiverHouse Publishing, LLC (2010-11-16) (2010-11-16) List Price: $1.00 Amazon Price: 
IN AMERICAN GANGSTER, THE FEDS TOOK DOWN INFAMOUS HEROIN DEALER FRANK LUCAS. BUT THE KINGPIN BEHIND LUCAS’S CRIMINAL REIGN, LEROY “NICKY” BARNES, REMAINED “MR. UNTOUCHABLE.” UNTIL ONE UNDERCOVER AGENT PROVED TOUGH ENOUGH—OR CRAZY ENOUGH—TO INFILTRATE HIS DOMAIN AND NAIL THE MOST DANGEROUS DRUG CZAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Growing up in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where physical violence was a daily reality at home, at school, and on the streets, Louis Diaz had what it took to survive—and to one day become what he vowed to be: a man of uncompromising principles who is “compassionate on the inside, fierce on the outside.” These were the qualities, along with his street fighter’s steely nerves and hair-trigger temper, that drove Diaz from his savage beginnings and early forays in organized crime to become one of the DEA’s bravest undercover agents—the man who was instrumental in taking down some of the nation’s and the world’s most notorious crime rings. In an unforgettable and utterly engaging first-person narrative, Diaz tells his gritty, colorful, painful, and even humorous life story—a story with all the raw emotional power and bare-knuckle action of Wiseguy or Serpico. From his headline-making cases of Nicky Barnes and the Medellín cartel . . . to his account of outwitting a key villain linked to the record-breaking heist known as The Great English Train Robbery . . . to his all-out confrontations with murderous gunrunners and drug dealers on the mean streets of New York . . . to leading commando raids on clan-destine cocaine labs inside the Bolivian jungles, Dancing with the Devil is an explosive memoir that stands as a classic of true-crime literature. 
From the 1970s through the mid-1980s, the Chicago Outfit dominated organized crime in Las Vegas. Unreported revenue, known as the "skim," from Outfit-controlled casinos made its way out of Vegas by the bagful, ending up in the coffers of the Windy City crime bosses and their confederates around the Midwest. To ensure the smooth flow of cash, the gangsters installed a front man with no criminal background, Allen R. Glick, as the casino owner of record, Frank "Lefty" Rosenthaal as the real boss of casino operations, and Tony Spilotro as the ultimate enforcer, who'd do whatever it took to protect their interests. It wasn't long before Spilotoro, also in charge of Vegas street crime, was known as the "King of the Strip." Federal and local law enforcement, recognizing the need to rid the casinos of the mob and shut down Spilotro's rackets, declared war on organized crime. The Battle for Las Vegas relates the story of the fight between the tough buys on both sides, told in large part by the agents and detectives who knew they had to win.Author: Dennis Griffin Paperback: 234 pages Company: Huntington Press (2006-07-01) ISBN: 0929712374 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $9.39 Used Price: $6.00 
Thousands of people are sold by the Ukrainian mafia into slavery and for organ transplantation to the wealthy and ill each year. Corrupt officials, mafia groups in Eastern Europe, Middle East and the Caucasus are involved in those criminal schemes. In this book five real stories are told based on the investigation of Ukrainian journalists.Author: Andrew Lavrik, Bogdan Butkevich Kindle Edition: 24 pages Kindle eBook Company: Andrew Lavrik (2012-04-15) (2012-04-15) List Price: $2.99 Amazon Price: 
Author: Philip J. SwiftPaperback: 231 pages Company: Looseleaf Law Publications, Inc (2011-12-07) ISBN: 1608850358 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $17.02 Used Price: $17.28
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Author: Roberto Saviano Paperback: 320 pages Company: Picador (2008-11-25) (2008-11-25) ISBN: 0312427794 List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $4.99 Used Price: $0.11 ![Organized Crime & Triad Bureau [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/217BD7VNMXL._SL160_.jpg)
Director Kirk Wong set the style for the lean, edgy Hong Kong cop thriller. In this drama, special forces officer Danny Lee bends the law and suspends civil rights to track down ruthless criminal Anthony Wong (Hard Boiled), the leader of a notorious robbery ring, on the run with his loyal girlfriend Cecilia Yip. Lee, who performed similar duties in John Woo's The Killer, is driven and demanding as the passionate authority figure, a man whose selfless sense of duty teeters over into vigilantism, while Anthony Wong tones down his usual flamboyant style to play a charismatic, sensitive criminal who earns the director's sympathies. There's no John Woo bravura shootouts or stylistic frenzies in Kirk Wong's sober, sometimes too restrained approach, lacking the dramatic edge of Rock and Roll Cop and the punch of Supercop, two of his later productions. But the violence packs a wallop in its street-realist directness, and Wong knows how to stage a high-tension action set piece, as evidenced in the opening chase scene and the dynamic police-dragnet finale. What more attracts the director, however, is the inner workings of crime and punishment: the maze of the underworld hierarchy and the mechanics of crime, the contradictions that pull at the police and the bureaucratic tangle they navigate. Though there's none of the romantic gloss that Woo invests his cowboy criminals with, Kirk Wong loves to explore the dynamic that separates--and binds--cop and criminal. --Sean AxmakerDirector: Kirk Wong VHS Tape: Color, Letterboxed, NTSC Company: Tai Seng Entertainme (1997-07-08) ISBN: 6304506783 List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $1.32 Used Price: $0.98 
Director: Bruce KesslerAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2007-07-05) List Price: Amazon Price: $1.99 ![Organized Crime & Triad Bureau [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21EQH7A2YWL._SL160_.jpg)
Director Kirk Wong set the style for the lean, edgy Hong Kong cop thriller. In this drama, special forces officer Danny Lee bends the law and suspends civil rights to track down ruthless criminal Anthony Wong (Hard Boiled), the leader of a notorious robbery ring, on the run with his loyal girlfriend Cecilia Yip. Lee, who performed similar duties in John Woo's The Killer, is driven and demanding as the passionate authority figure, a man whose selfless sense of duty teeters over into vigilantism, while Anthony Wong tones down his usual flamboyant style to play a charismatic, sensitive criminal who earns the director's sympathies. There's no John Woo bravura shootouts or stylistic frenzies in Kirk Wong's sober, sometimes too restrained approach, lacking the dramatic edge of Rock and Roll Cop and the punch of Supercop, two of his later productions. But the violence packs a wallop in its street-realist directness, and Wong knows how to stage a high-tension action set piece, as evidenced in the opening chase scene and the dynamic police-dragnet finale. What more attracts the director, however, is the inner workings of crime and punishment: the maze of the underworld hierarchy and the mechanics of crime, the contradictions that pull at the police and the bureaucratic tangle they navigate. Though there's none of the romantic gloss that Woo invests his cowboy criminals with, Kirk Wong loves to explore the dynamic that separates--and binds--cop and criminal. --Sean AxmakerDirector: Kirk Wong VHS Tape: Color, Dubbed, NTSC Company: Tai Seng (1998-01-01) List Price: $19.98 Amazon Price: Used Price: $1.94 
Director: Bruce BilsonAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2001-08-15) List Price: Amazon Price: $1.99
Director Kirk Wong set the style for the lean, edgy Hong Kong cop thriller. In this drama, special forces officer Danny Lee bends the law and suspends civil rights to track down ruthless criminal Anthony Wong (Hard Boiled), the leader of a notorious robbery ring, on the run with his loyal girlfriend Cecilia Yip. Lee, who performed similar duties in John Woo's The Killer, is driven and demanding as the passionate authority figure, a man whose selfless sense of duty teeters over into vigilantism, while Anthony Wong tones down his usual flamboyant style to play a charismatic, sensitive criminal who earns the director's sympathies. There's no John Woo bravura shootouts or stylistic frenzies in Kirk Wong's sober, sometimes too restrained approach, lacking the dramatic edge of Rock and Roll Cop and the punch of Supercop, two of his later productions. But the violence packs a wallop in its street-realist directness, and Wong knows how to stage a high-tension action set piece, as evidenced in the opening chase scene and the dynamic police-dragnet finale. What more attracts the director, however, is the inner workings of crime and punishment: the maze of the underworld hierarchy and the mechanics of crime, the contradictions that pull at the police and the bureaucratic tangle they navigate. Though there's none of the romantic gloss that Woo invests his cowboy criminals with, Kirk Wong loves to explore the dynamic that separates--and binds--cop and criminal. --Sean Axmaker
Director: Kirk Wong VHS Tape: Color, Import, NTSC Company: Tai Seng Video (1997-07-08) List Price: $19.98 Amazon Price: Used Price: $12.00 ![Yes, My Deadly Daughter [HD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510RDJg66sL._SL160_.jpg)
Director: Bruce BilsonAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2001-08-15) List Price: Amazon Price: $2.99 
Director: Bethany RooneyAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2010-06-03) List Price: Amazon Price: $1.99 
Director: Peter CraneAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2007-06-25) List Price: Amazon Price: $0.99 
Atists: Meek Mill, Oschino, Rick Ross, Young Savage, Hollowman, E-Ness, Omillio Sparks, Gillie Da Kid, Jimmy DaSaint, Bossman, Black Deniro, Inner City Hustlers, Reignman, Kre Forch, AR-ABDirector: Jimmy DaSaint & Phil Tartaglion DVD: NTSC Company: (2011-06-10) List Price: $14.99 Amazon Price: $14.99 
A cocky young hoodlum may have gotten in over his head as he reaches for the top in this crime drama.DVD: Color, DVD, NTSCCrime Boss, Mafia, Organized Crime Bosses, Crime boss all in the gamed, Crime boss Music Company: Ds (2003-08-22) ISBN: 1897019297 List Price: $9.99 Amazon Price: $1.29 Used Price: $0.01 ![Death Becomes Her [HD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41f5kJnwFOL._SL160_.jpg)
Director: Bethany RooneyAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2010-06-03) List Price: Amazon Price: $2.99 
This enthralling History Channel production looks at both the origins and current state of organized crime in Sicily, Russia, Colombia, India, and China. The series of five shows is thoroughly researched and beautifully put together, clearly elucidating the complex sociological roots that gave rise to today's cartels. Such fascinating topics as Russian prison tattoos and the ancient Indian Thug cult are discussed along the way. Though the producers don't shy away from pointing out governmental missteps that have inadvertently assisted in the rise of organized crime, the series comes down firmly on the side of law and order, and is careful to show the ruthlessness and brutality of the black market. The only hitches in the series come in the form of quick repetitions of information (that once followed commercial breaks), but these are only occasionally noticeable. Though densely informative, The World History of Organized Crime never becomes dull or dry--indeed, once you start watching it, it's almost impossible to stopDVD: Box set Company: List Price: Amazon Price: $19.99 
Director: John PeyserAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2001-08-15) List Price: Amazon Price: $1.99 
Being head of the Family is a dangerous business. The scene is set for war in the streets of this thrilling crime drama starring; Telly Savalas Antonio Sabato Lee Van Cleef A new boss is elected to take over a crime family and leaves his life hanging in the balance between bad and worse.System Requirements: Running Time 98 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 787364460991 Manufacturer No: 44609-9DVD: Color, DVD, NTSC Company: Bci / Eclipse (2003-10-07) List Price: $4.98 Amazon Price: $1.98 Used Price: $1.96 ![Mr. Monk Meets the Godfather [HD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BkNti2DZL._SL160_.jpg)
Director: Michael ZinbergAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2009-08-28) List Price: Amazon Price: $2.99 
Director: Alberto De MartinoDVD: Dolby, NTSC Company: SBR Inc. (1972-02-02) List Price: $24.99 Amazon Price: $7.52 Used Price: $1.09 
In 2004, the murder of a middle-aged couple in their village bungalow lifted the lid on the great untold story of British organised crime. The slaughter of Joan and John Stirland revealed an evil empire of powerful ganglords, contract killings and police corruption. At its dark heart was the East Midlands city of Nottingham. A prosperous centre of business, education and leisure, Nottingham had fallen under the shadow of vicious gangsters. Eventually its police were investigating so many murders that their boss had to appeal to other forces for help, and the influx of drugs and weapons saw the city labelled "Gun Capital UK". HOODS traces the roots of the gangs, revealing how economic dislocation and the clash of cultures between working-class white residents and black immigrants from the 1950s onwards created an alienated underclass. In the 1990s, a more malignant breed of organised criminal emerged. Crime families who had been involved in armed robbery, protection rackets and extortion now sought to control the recreational drugs trade and forged links across Europe to import wholesale quantities of cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines. By 2002, shootings were running at one a week. HOODS uncovers how outlaw Yardies pioneered the sale of crack cocaine and imported the ruthless violence of the Jamaican ghettos; how young black gangs from the so-called NG Triangle of the Meadows, St Ann’s and Radford areas clashed in a series of turf wars; how the shadowy Dawes Cartel built a lucrative international drugs empire; and how the Bestwood Cartel and its terrifying leader, Colin Gunn, corrupted police officers and left dead and maimed in its wake. As local police struggled to cope with the mayhem, MI5 and the National Crime Squad launched a massive undercover investigation into the Nottingham ‘untouchables’. It led ultimately to the dismantling of some of the UK’s most powerful crime networks. HOODS is a stark account of what happens when the rule of the gun supplants the rule of law and fear stalks the streets. Author: Carl Fellstrom Kindle Edition: 291 pages Kindle eBook Company: Milo Books Ltd (2012-04-18) (2012-04-18) List Price: Amazon Price: 
A controversial expose+a7, the subject of a extensive legal battle between the author and The New York Times, traces the influence of organized crime on the National Football League and such players as O. J. Simpson. Original. IP. Author: Dan E. Moldea Hardcover: 512 pages Company: William Morrow & Co (1995-09) ISBN: 068808303X List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $12.72 Used Price: $0.01 
“The Iceman chilleth! Not for the faint of heart, but a rousing, riveting read. I read it in one (scary) gulp.” —Jack Olson, author of I: The Creation of a Serial Killer At home Richard Kuklinski was a dedicated suburban family man. On the street he was the Iceman, a professional hit man and lethal scam artist, a man so heartless he kept one of his victims frozen for over two years to disguise the time of death. His personal body count was over 100, but the police didn’t have a clue. The Iceman exposes Kuklinski’s murderous double life. Author: Anthony Bruno Paperback: 310 pages Company: Backinprint.com (2008-01-28) ISBN: 0595482163 List Price: $20.95 Amazon Price: $17.60 Used Price: $17.60 
The ability of law enforcement agencies to manage intelligence is key to fighting the war on terror, and a critical foundation of intelligence-led policing is proper analysis of the information gained. Terrorism and Organized Hate Crime: Intelligence Gathering, Analysis, and Investigations, Third Edition provides a methodical approach to analyzing homeland security needs, enabling the law enforcement community to understand the vital role it plays in the war on terrorism. Using techniques applicable to the private and the public sector, the book combines academic, research, and practitioner perspectives to establish a protocol for effectively gathering, analyzing, investigating, and disseminating criminal intelligence. The book demonstrates how to recognize the indicators of an impending act of terrorism or mass violence, how to deter an attack, and how to transform information into intelligence to meet community demands for safety and security. New chapters in this third edition focus on source development and their use in investigations, the role of fusion centers, terrorism financing, the handling of classified materials, and the National Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative. The book also discusses pre-incident indicators, the radicalization process, and behavioral traits associated with terrorism. A one-stop resource for the homeland security, intelligence analyst, and investigative professional, this volume arms those tasked with protecting the public with a solid blueprint for combating and investigating crimes associated with terrorism and hate. Author: Michael R. Ronczkowski Hardcover: 417 pages Company: CRC Press (2011-09-21) ISBN: 1439867593 List Price: $89.95 Amazon Price: $78.00 Used Price: $55.00 
"Comprehensive and objective, this study argues that organized crime in the United States results from the struggle to attain the elusive American Dream to achieve success at any cost by any means. The authors examine the social, economic, political, and cultural conditions that fostered growth of criminal groups and organizations in African American communities from the post--Civil War era to the ghettoes of today."--BCALA Newsletter "[Kelly and Schatzberg] are obviously two knowledgeable individuals. Their book is both perceptive and compelling. Anyone interested in this subject, whether scholar or layperson, should find this social history most useful. Highly recommended."--Reference Book Review While stories of organized crime most often dwell on groups like the Mafia and Chinese Triad or Tongs, African Americans also have a long history of organized crime. Schatzberg and Kelly trace nearly a century of African American organized crime, from numbers gambling in New York City in the 1920s to criminal groups in the ghettoes from the 1940s to the 1970s to gang activities of the present day. The authors also challenge existing stereotypes of African Americans and demostrate the importance of studying any criminal activity within its historical and social context. Rufus Schatzberg, Ph.D., a retired New York City detective first grade, is the author of Black Organized Crime in Harlem: 1920--1930. Robert J. Kelly is Broeklundian Professor of Social Science at Brooklyn College and professor of criminal justice at the Graduate School, City University of New York. He is author of Deviance, Dominance and Denigration and Organized Crime: A Global Perspective. Together, Schatzberg and Kelly edited Handbook on Organized Crime in the United States.Author: Rufus Schatzberg, Robert J. Kelly Paperback: 288 pages Company: Rutgers University Press (1997-03-01) ISBN: 0813524458 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $4.82 Used Price: $2.14
Author: Stephen Fox
Paperback: 512 pages Company: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1990-08-01) ISBN: 0140134387 List Price: $24.00 Amazon Price: $28.89 Used Price: $0.01 
Author: Robert M. LombardoPaperback: 288 pages Company: University of Illinois Press (2012-12-30) ISBN: 0252078780 List Price: $25.00 Amazon Price: $25.00 
The United States–Mexico border zone is one of the busiest and most dangerous in the world. NAFTA and rapid industrialization on the Mexican side have brought trade, travel, migration, and consequently, organized crime and corruption to the region on an unprecedented scale. Until recently, crime at the border was viewed as a local law enforcement problem with drug trafficking—a matter of “beefing” up police and “hardening” the border. At the turn of the century, that limited perception has changed. Organized Crime and Democratic Governability brings together scholars and specialists, including current and former government officials, from both sides of the border to trace the history and define the reality of this situation. Their diverse perspectives place the issue of organized crime in historical, political, economic, and cultural contexts unattainable by single-author studies. Contributors examine broad issues related to the political systems of both countries, as well as the specific actors—crime gangs, government officials, prosecutors, police, and the military—involved in the ongoing drama of the border. Editors Bailey and Godson provide an interpretive frame, a “continuum of governability,” that will guide researchers and policymakers toward defining goals and solutions to the complex problem that, along with a border, the United States and Mexico now share. Paperback: 288 pages Company: University of Pittsburgh Press (2001-01-18) ISBN: 0822957582 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $19.75 Used Price: $4.98 
Organized crime, understood in a literal sense as systematic illegal activity for money or power, is as old as the first systems of law and government and as international as trade. Piracy, banditry, kidnapping, extortion, forgery, fraud, and trading in stolen or illegal goods and services are all ancient occupations that have often involved the active participation of landowners, merchants, and government officials. Many people today, however, follow the lead of the US government and American commentators and understand organized crime as being virtually synonymous with super-criminal 'Mafia-type' organizations. These are usually seen as separate entities, distinct from legitimate society but possessing almost unlimited regional, national, and even international power. As background to this understanding of organized crime there exists a consensus among most commentators that suggests that the United States has had the most experience and success in dealing with the problem. In Organized Crime and American Power: A History, Michael Woodiwiss argues that organized criminal activity has never been a serious threat to established economic and political power structures in the United States but more often a fluid, variable, and open-ended phenomenon that has, in fact, complemented those structures. Conventional histories of the problem tend to focus on outlaws in peripheral feudal societies, most commonly Sicily, for their antecedents. Woodiwiss by contrast finds his antecedents in the systematic criminal activity of the powerful and respectable in those ancient and early modern societies that we usually understand to be at the centre of 'civilized' development and continues to emphasize the crimes of the powerful throughout his wide ranging overview. He surveys the organization of crime in the Southern states after the American Civil War; the organized crimes of American business interests; the causes and corrupt consequences of the US campaign to prohibit alcohol and other 'vices'; the elaboration of the Mafia conspiracy interpretation of organized crime and the consequent 'dumbing of discourse' about the problem, not just nationally but internationally. Emphasizing the importance of collaboration, as much as confrontation, between government and criminals, Woodiwiss illustrates how crime control policies based on the Mafia paradigm have not only failed to address much organized criminal behaviour, but have, in many ways, proved counterproductive and damaging to individual rights and social stability. 
While the later history of the New York Mafia has received extensive attention, what has been conspicuously absent until now is an accurate and conversant review of the formative years of Mafia organizational growth. David Critchley examines the Mafia recruitment process, relations with Mafias in Sicily, the role of non-Sicilians in New York’s organized crime Families, kinship connections, the Black Hand, the impact of Prohibition, and allegations that a "new" Mafia was created in 1931. This book will interest Historians, Criminologists, and anyone fascinated by the American Mafia. Author: David Critchley Hardcover: 362 pages Company: Routledge (2008-11-19) ISBN: 0415990300 List Price: $125.00 Amazon Price: $105.00 Used Price: $93.00 ![Organized Crime & Triad Bureau [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z6PR3V4KL._SL160_.jpg)
Director Kirk Wong set the style for the lean, edgy Hong Kong cop thriller. In this drama, special forces officer Danny Lee bends the law and suspends civil rights to track down ruthless criminal Anthony Wong (Hard Boiled), the leader of a notorious robbery ring, on the run with his loyal girlfriend Cecilia Yip. Lee, who performed similar duties in John Woo's The Killer, is driven and demanding as the passionate authority figure, a man whose selfless sense of duty teeters over into vigilantism, while Anthony Wong tones down his usual flamboyant style to play a charismatic, sensitive criminal who earns the director's sympathies. There's no John Woo bravura shootouts or stylistic frenzies in Kirk Wong's sober, sometimes too restrained approach, lacking the dramatic edge of Rock and Roll Cop and the punch of Supercop, two of his later productions. But the violence packs a wallop in its street-realist directness, and Wong knows how to stage a high-tension action set piece, as evidenced in the opening chase scene and the dynamic police-dragnet finale. What more attracts the director, however, is the inner workings of crime and punishment: the maze of the underworld hierarchy and the mechanics of crime, the contradictions that pull at the police and the bureaucratic tangle they navigate. Though there's none of the romantic gloss that Woo invests his cowboy criminals with, Kirk Wong loves to explore the dynamic that separates--and binds--cop and criminal. --Sean AxmakerDirector: Kirk Wong VHS Tape: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC Company: Tai Seng (1998-01-01) ISBN: 6304013604 List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $5.99 Used Price: $2.89 ![World History of Organized Crime [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GTGBM4BWL._SL160_.jpg)
This enthralling History Channel production looks at both the origins and current state of organized crime in Sicily, Russia, Colombia, India, and China. The series of five shows is thoroughly researched and beautifully put together, clearly elucidating the complex sociological roots that gave rise to today's cartels. Such fascinating topics as Russian prison tattoos and the ancient Indian Thug cult are discussed along the way. Though the producers don't shy away from pointing out governmental missteps that have inadvertently assisted in the rise of organized crime, the series comes down firmly on the side of law and order, and is careful to show the ruthlessness and brutality of the black market. The only hitches in the series come in the form of quick repetitions of information (that once followed commercial breaks), but these are only occasionally noticeable. Though densely informative, The World History of Organized Crime never becomes dull or dry--indeed, once you start watching it, it's almost impossible to stop. --Ali DavisDirector: Scott Alexander VHS Tape: Box set, Color, NTSC Company: A&E Home Video (2002-01-29) ISBN: 0767043758 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $17.90 Used Price: $7.93 ![Crime Lords of Tokyo [HD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aI-SlvEUL._SL160_.jpg)
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Director: Albert DiMartinoAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2009-10-21) List Price: Amazon Price: $2.99 
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Director Kirk Wong set the style for the lean, edgy Hong Kong cop thriller. In this drama, special forces officer Danny Lee bends the law and suspends civil rights to track down ruthless criminal Anthony Wong (Hard Boiled), the leader of a notorious robbery ring, on the run with his loyal girlfriend Cecilia Yip. Lee, who performed similar duties in John Woo's The Killer, is driven and demanding as the passionate authority figure, a man whose selfless sense of duty teeters over into vigilantism, while Anthony Wong tones down his usual flamboyant style to play a charismatic, sensitive criminal who earns the director's sympathies. There's no John Woo bravura shootouts or stylistic frenzies in Kirk Wong's sober, sometimes too restrained approach, lacking the dramatic edge of Rock and Roll Cop and the punch of Supercop, two of his later productions. But the violence packs a wallop in its street-realist directness, and Wong knows how to stage a high-tension action set piece, as evidenced in the opening chase scene and the dynamic police-dragnet finale. What more attracts the director, however, is the inner workings of crime and punishment: the maze of the underworld hierarchy and the mechanics of crime, the contradictions that pull at the police and the bureaucratic tangle they navigate. Though there's none of the romantic gloss that Woo invests his cowboy criminals with, Kirk Wong loves to explore the dynamic that separates--and binds--cop and criminal. --Sean AxmakerDirector: Kirk Wong DVD: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Company: Tai Seng (1998-06-17) ISBN: 6304932049 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $34.95 Used Price: $6.90 ![Hit Gun For Sale [HD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dU5mSFL7L._SL160_.jpg)
Director: John PeyserAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2001-08-15) List Price: Amazon Price: $2.99 
Providing a fascinating and in-depth account of the criminal underworld, from Al Capone and Pablo Escobar to the lesser-known Russian and Chinese crime figures, this is an insider's guide to each organization's origins, codes of conduct, and control of illegal markets.Author: Paul Lunde Paperback: 192 pages Bargain Price Company: DK ADULT (2006-05-01) List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $13.15 Used Price: $8.24 
Phil Cresta was no run-of-the-mill thief. Mastermind of the legendary Brink's armored truck robbery and a string of countless other high-stakes heists, he stole more than ten million dollars in escapades that often were breathtakingly daring and at times marvelously inventive. The robberies baffled both police and fellow outlaws for decades, and most of the crimes remain unsolved today. Now the open case files of these memorable thefts can be closed as Cresta himself provides the true story on how they were planned and carried out.Born in Boston's North End in 1928, Cresta was raised in an abusive household. He was sent to Concord Reformatory as a teenager, where he learned the craft of picking locks, a skill later honed during stays at the Charlestown and Walpole prisons in Massachusetts. Following the Brinks robbery in 1968, he was put on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, but eluded the law for five years, living in Chicago under an assumed name. After serving time at Walpole for the Brinks job, Cresta died penniless in Chicago in 1995. Yet shortly before his death, he revealed the full extent of his astonishing capers to coauthor Bill Crowley, a retired Boston police detective. Drawing from their extensive conversations, this riveting page-turner chronicles how Cresta, along with partners "Angelo" and "Tony," pulled off robberies of jewelers, rare coin dealers, furriers, and armored trucks, detailing the meticulous planning that marked his criminal career. Cresta's final accounting is brimming with vivid tales of betrayal, murder, and intrigue as well as a colorful cast of characters, including mob bosses, wise guys, informants, paid "ears," corrupt judges, a Hollywood starlet, and even the Mayor of Chicago. Filled with drama, tension, and humor, this absorbing saga takes the reader inside the dangerous yet exhilarating world of a life dedicated to crime. Author: Brian P. Wallace, Bill Crowley Hardcover: 239 pages Company: Northeastern University Press (2000-10-27) ISBN: 155553449X List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $18.21 Used Price: $4.36 
This biography of celebrity gangster Mickey Cohen digs past the sensational headlines to deliver a remarkable story of a man who captivated, corrupted, and terrorized Los Angeles for a generation.When Bugsy Siegel was murdered, his henchman Mickey Cohen took over the criminal activity in Los Angeles. Mickey Cohen attained such power and dominance from the late 1940s until 1976 that he was a regular above-the-fold newspaper name, accumulating a remarkable count of more than 1,000 front-pages in Los Angeles papers alone, and was featured in hundreds of articles in national and international periodicals. His story and the history of mid-century L.A. are inextricably intertwined. Mickey Cohen is a seductive, premium-octane blend of true crime and Hollywood that spins around a wildly eccentric mob boss. Author Tere Tereba delivers tales of high life, high drama, and highly placed politicians, among them RFK and Richard Nixon, as well as revelations about countless icons, including Shirley Temple, Lana Turner, Frank Sinatra, and the Reverend Billy Graham. Meticulously researched, this rich tapestry presents a complete look at the Los Angeles underworld. Author: Tere Tereba Hardcover: 250 pages Company: ECW Press (2012-05-01) ISBN: 1770410007 List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $18.90 Used Price: $19.15 
Latin American and Afghan drug cartels are trying to set up a transit point in Ukraine to move cocaine and heroin to Western Europe. They may get help from corrupted local authorities. Almost 70 million drug doses are consumed in Ukraine each year. Also, tons of drugs are produced in Ukraine itself. It means thousands of broken lives and hundreds of millions of dollars made by international criminal syndicates. This book contains six stories about a drug mafia.Author: Andrew Lavrik, Bohdan Butkevych Kindle Edition: 24 pages Kindle eBook Company: Andrew Lavrik (2012-04-15) (2012-04-15) List Price: $2.99 Amazon Price: 
This explosive autobiographical volume is a gripping account of entertainer Jerry Castaldo growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn, NY, his agonizing descent into the darkness of the city's underbelly and his desperate struggle back to normalcy.Celebrated NY Post columnist, author and playwright Chip Deffaa edited this dark, yet highly inspirational story. "Heartbreaking," "surprising," "emotionally charged." "Shocking," "volatile," "riveting" and "just plain scary." Those comments are from readers of this book who cut a wide swath across a varied demographic--men, women; young, old; and who are from varying socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and locales. Author: Jerry Castaldo Paperback: 228 pages Company: CreateSpace (2012-04-18) ISBN: 1450564593 List Price: $9.99 Amazon Price: $8.77 Used Price: $7.49 
Today, the world is facing an increasing impact from established organized crime, emerging transnational organized crime, and gangs that requires an understanding of who and what these organizations are and how they achieve their goals. Updated to include new and relevant research and statistics, Understanding Organized Crime, Second Edition provides students with a better understanding of how and why these criminal groups continue to dominate the world of crime and what law enforcement must do to address this threat. Written by a leading expert in the field and based on his experience and academic research, Understanding Organized Crime, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to the subject and includes coverage of the types of organized crime, definitions of organized crime, why it continues to exist, and how it has evolved throughout history. Material covered includes the structure and hierarchy of each organization, their methods of operation, and the techniques and laws used by law enforcement to address the dynamic nature of domestic and transnational organized crime. Using the author s unique approach to the topic, students will learn about organized crime through the eyes of the criminal investigator, and how law-enforcement practitioners today are counteracting these criminal organizations.Author: Stephen L. Mallory Paperback: 328 pages Company: Jones & Bartlett Learning (2011-06-10) ISBN: 1449622577 List Price: $97.95 Amazon Price: $44.75 Used Price: $47.15 
Chris Paciello seemed to have it all. With heartthrob good looks and an A-list roster of clients and friends, he was a South Beach businessman/playboy whose local fame was reaching new heights—until his “wise guy” past came crashing down upon him. When some of Chris’s former ’fellas were arrested, they ratted him out to the government. One case in particular—a botched robbery that turned deadly—was a time bomb that would blow the cushy new world Chris created for himself to bits…and propel him straight back to New York City to face justice. Author: Michele R. McPhee Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages Company: St. Martin's True Crime (2010-06-29) (2010-06-29) ISBN: 0312942672 List Price: $7.99 Amazon Price: $2.99 Used Price: $0.01 
Adrenaline Books' search for the world's best and most exciting stories has taken readers from the peaks of Everest to the jungles of Papua, New Guinea to the battlefields of World War II. Now, the editor of publishing's most successful adventure literature series takes readers into the heart of organized crime. Some of our culture's greatest literary talent has been drawn to this topic, which taps into our culture's deepest preoccupations -- greed, violence, desire. Mob features work from best-selling writers such as Peter Maas, William Kennedy, Martin Cruz Smith, and Mario Puzo; from acknowledged masters of the genre such as Nicolas Pileggi (Wiseguy, Casino) and Joseph Pistone (Donnie Brasco); and from law enforcement insiders and mobsters such as Sammy Giancana and Joseph O'Brien. Paperback: 360 pages Company: Da Capo Press (2001-09-09) ISBN: 156025324X List Price: $18.98 Amazon Price: $4.40 Used Price: $0.96 
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Boston has had its share of bookies and loan sharks, gangsters and wiseguys, hoodlums and hit men. From the Great Brink's Robbery, which was hailed as the crime of the century; to the long-forgotten Cotton Club in Roxbury, where the legendary nightlife kingpin Charlie "King" Solomon was gunned down; to the infamous Blackfriars Massacre, a brutal gangland slaying that left five men dead, slumped over a backgammon game in a cramped basement office--all of these dark moments in time are a part of Boston's history that is rarely spoken about. Boston Organized Crime explores the region's shadier side and takes a closer look at the mobsters and racketeers who once operated in the Greater Boston area. Drawing upon an eclectic collection of crime scene photographs, mug shots, and police documents, author Emily Sweeney takes readers on an eye-opening journey through Boston's underworld, from the bootlegging days of Prohibition to the bloody gangland wars of the 1960s.Author: Emily Sweeney Paperback: 128 pages Company: Arcadia Publishing (2012-01-30) (2012-01-30) ISBN: 0738576735 List Price: $21.99 Amazon Price: $13.39 Used Price: $13.73 
Director: Rowan JoffeAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2011-12-27) List Price: Amazon Price: $14.99 
The true story of the most secrative mafia family 100's of fbi photo's private family photo's of don joe zerilli-explains the start in 1912-new info on possible murder site of jimmy hoffa.Director: Al Profit DVD: Color, DVD, NTSC Company: Illuminated Films LLC/Studio August LLC (2009-09-30) List Price: $18.99 Amazon Price: $7.00 Used Price: $9.99 
Director: Stephen SurjikAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2008-10-06) List Price: Amazon Price: $1.99 
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The Film Movement Series, August 2004 Selection, Volume II: Film 8Director: Michael Welterlin DVD: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled Company: Film Movement (2004) (2005-01-01) List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $4.58 Used Price: $2.99 ![Helter Skelter Homicide [HD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EwYcTp3hL._SL160_.jpg)
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Director: Paul HaggisAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2007-06-25) List Price: Amazon Price: $1.99 
Some time in the early 1960s, during the golden age of organized crime in America—the era that would inspire The Godfather; Goodfellas, and even The Sopranos—federal investigators pulled every known piece of information on more than 800 Mafia members worldwide into a thick, phone-book-sized directory. From old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mickey Cohen to young turks like Paul Castellano and Vinny "The Chin" Gigante, the guide offered at-a-glance profiles of small-time thugs and major dons alike... and was allegedly the book Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used to investigate the mob. Recently discovered, and published for the first time in this facsimile edition, Mafia is a treasure trove of info on the underworld in mid-century America—a revelatory artifact and an irresistible read. Author: none Hardcover: 944 pages Company: Harper (2007-10-30) (2007-10-30) ISBN: 0061363855 List Price: $34.95 Amazon Price: $16.47 Used Price: $10.52 
A shocking, true account of a global crime network of unimaginable proportions, in which multinational criminals make alliances much like legitimate businesses, The Merger lays bare the criminal fraternity's new world order. International crime expert and best-selling author Jeffrey Robinson gives details of their subterranean activities-previously known only to international law enforcement insiders-to make this network public, tracing an intricate web of connections between such infamous organized crime rings as the Sicilian Mafiosi, the Camorra from Naples, the Ndrangheta from Calabria, the Chinese Triads, the Russian, Hungarian, and Czech Republic "maffiyas," and organized crime groups from Columbia, Mexico, Nigeria, and Vietnam-to name just a few. Through his meticulous research, Jeffrey Robinson developed contacts in police organizations all over the world and has pinpointed the factors that have led to the emergence of these worldwide crime cartels. Written with a keen sense of anecdote and an authoritative command of the facts, The Merger is a tautly-paced tale that both educates and entertains. "Robinson is highly readable and entertaining...[he] will leave readers wondering just what we can do about the situation, which is what he intends all along." (Robert D. Paar, The Boston Globe) "The Merger crushes all crime novels before because it's written with unflinching truth and conviction." (Vibe Magazine) Author: Jeffrey Robinson Paperback: 470 pages Company: Overlook TP (2002-03-01) ISBN: 1585672483 List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $1.98 Used Price: $1.47 
Two of today's top investigative journalists discovered the reality of the world's most foremost biker gang — The Hells Angels. With an estimated 2,500 members in 25 countries, the Hells Angels have inspired a global subculture of violence and fear. Sher and Marsden unflinching look at how law enforcement agencies worldwide are trying to stop — with little success — the biker gangs from spreading their violent outlaw creed around the world. Author: Julian Sher, William Marsden Paperback: 480 pages Company: Da Capo Press (2007-03-02) ISBN: 0786719311 List Price: $17.99 Amazon Price: $8.35 Used Price: $0.01 
A Crazed KillerHe dissolved the bodies of some of his victims in acid and poured them down the sewer. He hung grisly souvenirs on nails in his junkyard. La Costra Nostra Charles Carneglia was a stone-cold killer who fell in with the bloodthirsty John Gotti crew. As the infamous crime family rose to power with their murderous trail of sex, jealousy, greed, and revenge, Carneglia rose with them. Mafia, Madness And Murder This is the horrifying story of a misfit who fit perfectly into the New York mafia. In a harrowing journey inside a ruthless criminal underworld, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony M. DeStefano chronicles one man’s life in a world of depraved acts of violence and the horrors that went with being a member of the Gambino family. "Thrilling American crime writing.” -Jimmy Breslin on King of the Godfathers Includes 16 Pages of Shocking Photos 
Like The Don said, "Buy this book, or I'll make you an offer you can't refuse.""Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps - Volume 2- New York City" is not a continuation of "Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps - Volume 1- New York City," but rather a complement to Volume I. Volume 2 starts in the time period of the early 1820's, and ends in the mid 1900's. This is not a book about nice people. This is a book about the lowest forms of life ever to walk the face of the earth: Mafioso, murderers, con artists, prostitutes, base street thugs, crooked politicians; people who do deliciously decadent things to other people, as easily as stepping on a roach . The exception is New York City Detective Joseph Petrosino, who took on the vicious Black Hand, but lost his life in Sicily because he wasn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. "Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps - Volume 2- New York City" is not for everyone. But if you enjoy reading about people who are so unaffected about what they do, they can eat a hot roast beef sandwich minutes after slitting some poor guy's throat, this book is definitely for you. Take a deep breath, fire up your Kindle, and enjoy. There are worse ways to spend $.99. Author: Joe Bruno Kindle Edition: 223 pages Kindle eBook Company: Joseph Bruno Literary Services (2011-12-01) (2011-12-01) List Price: Amazon Price: 
The New York Daily News wanted a photograph of John Gotti, the city’s brand-new Mafia boss. But Gotti didn’t like the idea of having his mug plastered on the front pages, so he was holed up in his house in Queens, hiding out from the press. This is how crime reporter David J. Krajicek found himself at odds with the Gotti clan outside that house on a crunchy-cold January morning in 1986.In his debut media moment, Gotti’s son, Junior, pulled up to Krajicek’s car and threatened to “start choppin’ off heads.” When Krajicek wrote about this encounter, he received an angry letter from Junior’s mother, Victoria Gotti. “After reading that bit of trash you passed off as journalism, I’m not surprised that people like Sinatra, Madonna, and Diana Ross kick, punch and spit on you,” she wrote. “You are tantamount to vultures." In "Gotti and Me," true crime author Krajicek tells for the first time the full story of his close encounters with the Gotti family. He has bundled that story with four other classic New York mob tales that he wrote about for the Daily News, including the 1959 murder of “Frankie Shots,” a Brooklyn bookie whose slaying touched off a Mafia civil war; the deadly plunge from a Coney Island hotel of Abe Reles, the infamous “mob canary who couldn’t fly”; the mistaken execution in the Bronx of an innocent man that hastened the bust-up of Murder Inc., and the story of Gus Farace, a dead-ender from Staten Island who imagined himself a mob star, just like Gotti. The last story includes details of a rare conversation Krajicek had with another mobster, Gregory Scarpa Sr., known as the Grim Reaper. Before the Gotti family made its headline-grabbing arrival on the crime scene, American mobsters had the quaint custom of keeping their mouths shut, even when subjected to knee-buckling interrogation techniques. “If you hung him up by the thumbs for eight weeks," a Bronx prosecutor once said of a famously taciturn mob hit man, "he might tell you his first name." But the Gotti family's encounters with Krajicek served as a public announcement that this particular mob clan would not shrink from infamy. They basked in it. Once he got over his camera-shyness, John Gotti grew to relish his marquee role as the smug, sharp-dressed mob boss. Today's media-friendly mob culture finds wiseguys in Hollywood pitching film deals, penning tell-all books, or, like the trend-setting Gottis, on reality TV shows. Author: David J. Krajicek Kindle Edition: 48 pages Kindle eBook Company: News Ink Books (2011-12-17) (2011-12-17) List Price: Amazon Price: 
For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the U.S., employing over two hundred and fifty made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible for over thirty murders, even killing a dozen of its own members to enforce discipline and settle scores. He would be brought down by Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale, the underboss who was not only Massino's closest and most trusted friend, but also his brother-in-law. In the end, facing the death penalty and the prospect of leaving his family penniless, Massino started talking to the FBI - the first Mafia Godfather to break the sacred code of omerta, and the end of a centuries-old tradition.Author: Anthony DeStefano Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Company: Pinnacle (2007-06-01) (2007-06-01) ISBN: 0786018933 List Price: $6.99 Amazon Price: $3.72 Used Price: $1.13 
Black Hand, Tammany Hall, political scandals, mafias, cartels, and opium gangs. The Encyclopedia of Gangsters provides an encompassing look at organized crime around the world. More than just the Sicilian Mafia, who are celebrated by pop culture and often depicted on the silver screen in films such as the Godfather trilogy and Scarface, the world of gangsters spans the globe and has deep roots. The Encyclopedia of Gangsters is arranged both chronologically and geographically, highlighting the legendary figures, the famous heists and busts, and the stranglehold these organizations still exert today. Infamous characters like Al Capone, Carlo Gambino, John Gotti, Arnold Rothstein, Isadore Blumenfeld, Wah Ching, Sergei Mikhailov, and Phoolan Devi are profiled in this colorful and comprehensive collection. Author: Michael Newton Paperback: 256 pages Bargain Price Company: Running Press (2007-10-05) List Price: $24.99 Amazon Price: $10.00 Used Price: $4.83 
Undercover cop Alex Vaughn goes deeper than ever into the organized crime family of Buffalo, NY. Motivated by justice and revenge, he seeks out the assassin that laid his friend Jack low. Professional killer Rafael Rontego traverses the deadly politics of Buffalo’s mafia underbelly. In a city whose winter can be just as deadly as those wielding power, Rontego tries to stay ahead of the game. Their two worlds collide in this epic thriller that takes the reader on a search for self, justice, and truth.Author: Nicholas Denmon Paperback: 300 pages Company: CreateSpace (2011-06-15) ISBN: 1463567839 List Price: $13.99 Amazon Price: $11.07 Used Price: $10.45 
When a mafia princess falls for a two-bit hoodlum an unhappy don plays some rough games in order to separate the two lovers. Sean O'Donnell is a man who always keeps his word, especially to a lady. His good-for-nothing old man left his mother flat. When she gets ill, Sean assures her that he will never be like his father; if he makes a promise he will keep it, no matter what the cost. When local mob boss Mario Torretta's daughter Nicole falls for Sean, the Don is not pleased, and makes it known that Sean is not good enough for his princess. However, Nicole is in love and begs Sean to stick by her. Once Sean gives his word, no amount of pressure from the Don will weaken his resolve. Sean will endure and persevere to keep his promise to Nicole, and to his mother. Reservoir Dogs meets Romeo and Juliet in this emotionally charged, fast-moving crime drama for fans of Dennis Lehane, Andrew Vachss and Charlie Huston. Author: Adam Pepper Kindle Edition: 260 pages Kindle eBook Company: Innovation Haven (2012-01-03) (2012-01-03) List Price: Amazon Price: 
Director: Charles F. HaasAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2010-11-11) List Price: Amazon Price: $1.99 
Director: Paul WendkosAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2011-08-23) List Price: Amazon Price: $4.99 
This in-depth documentary series details the rise of global crime cartels, focusing on Sicily, Russia, Colombia, and China and India. Included are interviews with renowned law enforcement officers like the former Colombian minister of justice, footage from anti-crime operations, and testimony from convicted gangsters. 250 min. on two discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; historical timeline; interactive menus; scene access.Director: Scott Alexander DVD: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC Company: A&E Home Video (2002-01-29) ISBN: 076704388X List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $9.94 Used Price: $8.00 
Our Seller Notes and Fine Print Department:...DVD...in very good shape....1995..about 98 minutes each...Close Captioned...In color..R Rated.DVD: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC Company: Paramount (2003-12-23) ISBN: 079219683X List Price: $9.98 Amazon Price: $4.39 Used Price: $1.77 
Tokyo: orderly...modern...and seemingly safe. But this vast neon city hides a dark secret. For the millions who live here, it's something you don't see every day, and you may never encounter it face to face. For people on the inside, however, nothing could be more obvious than the power of Japan's infamous organized crime syndicates known as the Yakuza.National Geographic takes you inside this secretive underworld to meet the real Yakuza-thugs and high-ranking bosses-plus the people who write about their every move, and the cops who track them down. Incredible personal stories and candid interviews reveal an organization both honorable and corrupt, violent and restrained, compassionate and driven by an insatiable greed. This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply. This product is expected to play back in DVD Video "play only" devices, and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives. DVD: NTSC Company: National Geographic (2012-05-03) List Price: $19.93 Amazon Price: $19.93 
Moving beyond outdated interpretations, this text addresses the rapidly changing world of organized crime. By looking at the forces of globalization, terrorism and hi-tech crime, it helps readers understand the complicated nature of organized crime today. Appropriate for a wide audience, its level is applicable for both undergraduate and graduate level students and its interdisciplinary approach relies on research from a variety of fields. Chapter introductions and critical thinking questions keep readers engaged as they are confronted with the realities of organized crime in a twenty-first century world. For courses in Organized Crime and Corruption, Homeland Security, and Criminal Justice Intelligence.Author: Mitchel P. Roth Paperback: 648 pages Company: Allyn & Bacon (2009-03-05) ISBN: 0205508278 List Price: $102.80 Amazon Price: $70.99 Used Price: $38.08 
What do you do when the law wants you behind bars and the New York crime families want you buried? That was the life and death dilemma confronting Andrew DiDonato, who began his criminal career at the age of 14 under the watchful eyes of the local mob. By the time he was 17, the infamous Gambino family made DiDonato an associate of the Nicholas Corozzo crew. For the next 14 years, he was a loyal street soldier. But by 1996, DiDonato had run afoul of both the law and his friends, turning him into a hunted man on two fronts. Surviving the Mob is a cautionary tale of the harsh reality of a criminal, inmate, fugitive, and witness who, so far, has lived to tell the tale.Author: Dennis Griffin Paperback: 288 pages Company: Huntington Press (2011-01-01) ISBN: 1935396382 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $12.34 Used Price: $14.13 
Organized Crime in Our Times provides readers with a clear understanding of organized crime, including its definition and causes, how it is categorized under the law, models to explain its persistence, and the criminal justice response to organized crime, including investigation, prosecution, defense, and sentencing. This book organizes information in a meaningful way, offering a comprehensive history of the Mafia in the United States; a legal analysis of the offenses that underlie organized crimes; specific attention to modern manifestations of organized crime activity, such as human smuggling, Internet crimes, and other transnational criminal operations; and the application of ethics to the study of organized crime. This edition includes new tables and figures, and special features on popular biographies and movies that tie to relevant content in the text. Appendices include a glossary and timeline on organized crime in the United States. Chapters are enhanced by updated photos, tables, charts, and critical thinking exercises that help students apply and evaluate concepts to actual case examples.Every chapter includes two student-friendly special features: Organized Crime Biography and Organized Crime at the Movies.A glossary gives students a quick reference for looking up important definitions of organized crime-related terms, and a Timeline of Organized Crime in the United States highlights important events in the history of organized crime. Author: Jay S. Albanese Paperback: 424 pages Company: Anderson (2010-10-13) ISBN: 1437744532 List Price: $45.95 Amazon Price: $30.30 Used Price: $17.66 
Transnational crime is to the early twenty-first century what city gangs and Al Capone were to the early twentieth century. In Transnational Crime and the 21st Century: Criminal Enterprise, Corruption, and Opportunity, noted criminologist Jay S. Albanese uses case studies, interviews, and the most up-to-date research to explore the connections between transnational crime and organized crime. A concise and affordable supplement for courses in comparative, international, and organized crime, this provocative text offers students a solid basis for understanding the nature of transnational crime.FEATURES * Uses clear, straightforward language, making the text accessible to students of all levels * Categorizes crimes by type (rather than by topic) in order to help students better grasp the interrelationships between transnational and organized crime * Examines the nine most serious forms of transnational crime: drug trafficking, stolen property, counterfeiting, human trafficking, fraud and cybercrime, commercialized sex, extortion and racketeering, money laundering, and corruption * Proposes concrete solutions for preventing organized crime syndicates and networks * Takes a systematic approach to risk assessment, delving into the factors that generate illicit markets and allow criminals to be successful Author: Jay S. Albanese Paperback: 176 pages Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2011-01-12) ISBN: 0195397827 List Price: $34.95 Amazon Price: $27.96 Used Price: $20.50 
Operation Family Secrets is the chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago made the unprecedented decision to work with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to incriminate his own father and to help bring down the last great American crime syndicate—the one-hundred-year-old Chicago Outfit.The Calabrese family of Chicago is a close-knit, middle-class, multi-generational Italian-Irish-American clan. They operate family businesses. They work day and night striving for the American Dream. All three sons forge a bond with their controlling father, Frank Sr., and their soft-spoken favorite uncle, Nick. As a boy, the oldest son, Frank Jr., realizes that his father and uncle are also “made” members of another close-knit family: the outfit. In Operation Family Secrets Frank Calabrese, Jr., tells the turbulent tale of a family dominated by a violent patriarch who breaks a longstanding unwritten outfit code and “brings the street into his home” by enlisting two of his sons into the outfit’s 26th Street/Chinatown crew. Frank Jr. reveals for the first time the outfit’s “made” ceremony and describes being put to work alongside his father and uncle in loan sharking, gambling, labor racketeering, and extortion, and plotting the slaying of a fellow gangster, while they commit the bombing murder of a trucking executive, the gangland execution of two mobsters whose burial in an Indiana cornfield was reenacted in Martin Scorsese’s blockbuster film Casino, and numerous other hits. The Calabrese Crew’s colossal earnings and extreme ruthlessness make them both a dreaded criminal gang and the object of an intense FBi inquiry. Eventually Frank Jr., his father, and Uncle Nick are convicted on racketeering violations, and “Junior” and “Senior” are sent to the same federal penitentiary in Michigan. Upon arrival, Frank Jr. makes a life-changing decision: to go straight rather than agree to his father’s plans to resume crew activities after serving his sentence. But he needs to keep his father behind bars in order to regain control of his life and save his family. Frank Jr. makes a secret deal with prosecutors, and for six months—unmonitored and unprotected—he wears a wire as his father recounts decades of hideous crimes. Frank Jr.’s cooperation with the FBi for virtually no monetary gain or special privileges helps create the government’s “operation Family Secrets” campaign against the Chicago outfit. The case reopens eighteen unsolved murders and also implicates twelve La Cosa Nostra soldiers and two outfit bosses. it becomes one of the largest organized crime cases in U.S. history. Operation Family Secrets intimately portrays how organized crime rots a family from the inside out while detailing Frank Jr.’s deadly prison-yard mission, the FBI’s landmark investigation, and the U.S. attorney’s office’s daring prosecution of america’s most dangerous criminal organization. From the Hardcover edition. Author: Frank Calabrese Jr., Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman, Paul Pompian Paperback: 336 pages Company: Broadway (2012-03-06) (2012-03-06) ISBN: 0307717739 List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $7.20 Used Price: $7.55 
ORGANIZED CRIME, 10th Edition provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of the origins, history, theoretical explanations, and structure of domestic and international organized crime. The author also explains the methods employed by law enforcement agencies to combat organized crime, as well as the policy decisions of various investigating committees and commissions, including the President's Commission on Organized Crime.Author: Howard Abadinsky Paperback: 496 pages Company: Wadsworth Publishing (2012-03-13) ISBN: 113304963X List Price: $178.95 Amazon Price: $121.00 Used Price: $136.99 
Introduction – By Mathew J. MariI have been a criminal defense lawyer in New York City for 34 years, specializing in organized crime cases. Like Joe Bruno, I was born in New York City's Little Italy. Also, like Joe Bruno, I lived in Knickerbocker Village for more than three decades. Our neighborhood was filled with unforgettable characters, most of whom were criminals, and many of whom were in the Mafia. Joe got to meet and see many famous criminals during his years in Little Italy (in the 6th Ward), and in Knickerbocker Village (in the 4th Ward). It is no surprise to me that Joe was fascinated not only with the mafia characters, but with the entire history of Lower Manhattan, and New York City in general. Joe Bruno's book, “ Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps-Volume 1- New York City" is a composite of characters and events, that weaves the denizens of New York City's underworld with the rich history of New York City, from the early 1800's, through the early 1900's. Although Italian-American criminals are covered, this is not just another Italian mafia book. The book covers the Jewish gangsters as well (who truly were the pioneers of organized crime) and the Irish gangs, who were one of the first ethnic groups to run the New York City rackets. Joe even presents a few "lady gangsters" too. Most of all, “ Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps-Volume 1- New York City" is easy to read. The short-chapter format is a stroke of genius. It is interesting, informative, entertaining, and to the point. You won't be bored reading it. Joe Bruno has hit the mark in presenting Old New York the way it really was. Rough and bloody! Author: Joe Bruno Kindle Edition: 237 pages Kindle eBook Company: Joseph Bruno Literary Services (2011-06-27) (2011-06-27) List Price: $0.99 Amazon Price: 
Through out the years, Anthony's enemies have all lined up to try and bring him down and everyone of them has failed! From his step brother, to his under boss, to an F.B.I. Agent. Anthony has ruled the Southwest side of Houston just like his father; ruthless, coldblooded and determined. He has taken on all his rivals and exterminated them without ever blinking an eye.And now he has his sight set on a flamboyant drug dealer, who wants to muscle in on his territory, a State Senator, who wants to shine a light on Anthony's under world and an F.B.I. Agent who wants nothing more than revenge for the death of his daughter. Blood of my Father will show you that passed sin don't go unpunished! And that your worst enemy, might just be the one staring back at you in the mirror. Author: Tony Farraj Kindle Edition: 153 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2012-03-25) (2012-03-25) List Price: Amazon Price: 
For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America's social fabric and business enterprises while emerging as the nation's most formidable crime empire. The vanguard of this criminal juggernaut is still led by the Mafia's most potent and largest borgatas: New York's Five Families. Five Families is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New York's premier dons from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano to John Gotti and more. This definitive history brings the reader right up to the possible resurgence of the Mafia as the FBI and local law-enforcement agencies turn their attention to homeland security and away from organized crime. The paperback has been revised and updated, with a new epilogue focusing on the trial of the notorious "Mafia Cops." Author: Selwyn Raab Paperback: 784 pages Company: St. Martin's Griffin (2006-09-05) (2006-09-05) ISBN: 0312361815 List Price: $19.99 Amazon Price: $6.99 Used Price: $6.15 
ORGANIZED CRIME, 5/e gives students a clear understanding of organized crime from social, political and economic perspectives: what it is, how it has evolved, where it stands, where it is headed, and how societies can respond to it. The authors dispel long-standing myths surrounding organized crime, and consider the phenomenon in all its forms. This logically-organized, highly-readable book promotes learning with extensive pedagogical features, including chapter objectives, critical thinking projects, summaries, key terms, discussion points, and suggested readings. This edition’s extensive new coverage includes updated discussions of drug trafficking and terrorism, as well as organized crime groups from China, Nigeria, Albania, Central America, Japan, and the Tri-Border area.Author: Michael D. Lyman, Gary W. Potter Paperback: 480 pages Company: Prentice Hall (2010-08-20) ISBN: 0132457776 List Price: $114.20 Amazon Price: $67.78 Used Price: $37.00 |
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