The Oxford handbook of organized crime / edited by Letizia Paoli.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justicePublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199984312 (ebook) :
- Handbook of organized crime
- Organized crime
- 364.106 23
- HV6441 .O94 2015
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This handbook explores organized crime, which it divides into two main concepts and types: the first is a set of stable organizations illegal per se or whose members systematically engage in crime, and the second is a set of serious criminal activities that are typically carried out for monetary gain.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 5, 2015).