Understanding organized crime in global perspeective : a reader

SECTION ONE Commentary Selected Readings The Functions and Structure of Criminal Syndicates - Donald Ray Cressey Excerptes from the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice Task Force Report: Organized Crime Donald Cressey's Contribution to the Study of Organized Crime - Joseph L Albini An Evaluation The Evil that Men Do - Charles H Rogovin and Frederick T Martens SECTION TWO Commentary Selected Readings Trapped in the Folds of Discourse - Robert J Kelly Theorizing about the Underworld Bureaucracy and the Mafia - Mark H Haller An Alternative View SECTION THREE Commentary Selected Readings The Mafia and The Devil - Joseph L Albini What They Have in Common Mafia Memoirs - Thomas A Firestone What They Tell Us about Organized Crime PART FOUR Commentary Selected Reading The Social Organization of Organized Crime in Chicago - Robert M Lombardo Asian Gangs and Asian Organized Crime in Chicago - Robert Davidson Bandit Banks - Maurice Punch Financial Services and Organized Crime International Organized Crime - David L Carter Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurial Crime SECTION FIVE Commentary Selected Readings Russian Organized Crime - Joseph L Albini et al Its History, Structure and Function Primitive Capitalist Accumulation - Robert J Kelly, Rufus Schatzberg and Patrick J Ryan Russia as a Racket Russia's Great Criminal Revolution - J Michael Waller and Victor J Yasmann The Role of the Security Services SECTION SIX Commentary Selected Readings Organized Crime in the Royal Colony of Hong Kong - James J McKenna, Jr Hong Kong after 1997 - John Dombrink and John Song Transnational Organized Crime in a Shrinking World The Evolution and Future Direction of Southeast Asian Criminal Organizations - Ken Sanz and Ira Silverman