| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- The mystique of the mafia -- The mafia belongs to Sicily -- Searching for "our thing" -- Revision -- Organizing crime -- Survival of the fittest : from Russia to the original Sin City -- Globalization and organized criminals -- The organized crime matrix : a transnational system of social networks of organized criminal activity -- Works cited -- Index. |
| Abstract |
"By focusing on the American experience that dominated organized crime scholarship during the second half of the 20th century as well as more recent global manifestations of transnational organized crime, tthrough a series of case studies that organized crime is best understood not as a series of famous gangsters and events but as a method of everyday life"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2012032462 |
| ISBN | 9780786465804 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0786465808 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
