Defining and Defying Organised Crime: Discourse, Perceptions and Reality

By Felia Allum and felia-allum

Book Overview

Organised crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach this book examines the existing, official institutional discourse on organised crime to examine whether, or not, it has an impact on perceptions of the threat and on the reality of organized crime.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415548527
• ISBN13: 9780415548526
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"