Table of Contents

Preface

1. Understanding Organized Crime

2. Theories of Organized Criminal Behavior

3. The Evolution of Organized Crime: Urban Beginnings and Major Participants

4. The Evolution of Organized Crime: Southern Beginnings and Major Participants

5. The Businesses of Organized Crime

6. The Illicit Drug Trade

7. Domestic Organized Crime Groups

8. A Comparative Perspective

9. Terrorism as Organized Crime

10. Organized Crime’s Political and Corporate Alliances

11. Controlling Organized Crime

Appendix A. Selected Provisions from the 2001 USA Patriot Act

Appendix B. Chronology of White Supremacist Domestic Terrorist Incidents in the 1980s

References   

Index