Abadinsky provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of the origins, history, theoretical explanations, and structure of domestic and international organized crime, including drug trafficking, gambling, and loan sharking. The author also explains the methods employed by law enforcement agencies to combat organized crime, and the policy decisions reached by various investigating committees and commissions, including the President's Commission on Organized Crime.
- ISBN10 0495092134
- ISBN13 9780495092131
- Publish Date 2 June 2006 (first published August 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
- Edition 8th ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 457
- Language English