Organized Crime and Criminal Enterprise in America

Catalog description

Provides the student with an introduction to the study of organized crime and criminal enterprise. Students examine the influence of covert criminal activities, including street gangs, prison gangs, and traditional organized crime upon social structure; symptoms and recognition of organized crime activity, including the interrelationship with drugs/narcotics, white-collar crime, and vice operations; and the historical and contemporary problems faced by criminal justice agencies combating these criminal enterprises in the United States.