TY - BOOK ID - 136874299 TI - An economic history of organized crime : a national and transnational approach PY - 2011 SN - 1136705813 1283435047 9786613435040 1136705821 0203814258 9780203814253 9781283435048 661343504X 9781136705816 9780415487962 041548796X 9781136705823 PB - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Organized crime KW - Mafia KW - Transnational crime KW - Crime KW - History. KW - Economic aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136874299 AB - This book is a comparative study of organized crime groups from five different parts of the world: Europe; North America; Central America/South America/Caribbean basin; Africa; and Asia/Western Pacific. Each part contains two case studies and a shorter essay, a vignette. From Europe the case studies focus on the Italian mafias and the Russian mafia; the vignette, on the Albanian mafia. From North America the case studies highlight the US Mafia and the Mexican drug cartels; the vignette, organized crime in Canada. From Central America/South America/Caribbean basin the case studies concentrat ER -