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Double Crossed: The Failure of Organized Crime Control

by Michael Woodiwiss
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780745332017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: Law and Criminology
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 304
  • Original Price: GBP 16.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 378 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Criminal Law / General

In the United States, the popular symbols of organized crime are still Depression-era figures such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky--thought to be heads of giant, hierarchically organized mafias. In Double Crossed, Michael Woodiwiss challenges perpetuated myths to reveal a more disturbing reality of organized crime--one in which government officials and the wider establishment are deeply complicit.

Delving into attempts to implement policies to control organized crime in the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom, Woodiwiss reveals little known manifestations of organized crime among the political and corporate establishment. A follow up to his 2005 Gangster Capitalism, Woodiwiss broadens and brings his argument up to the present by examining those who constructed and then benefitted from myth making. These include Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, opportunistic American politicians and officials, and, more recently, law enforcement bureaucracies led by the FBI.

Organized crime control policies now tend to legitimize repression and cover up failure. They do little to control organized crime. While the U.S. continues to export its organized crime control template to the rest of the world, opportunities for successful criminal activity proliferate at local, national, and global levels, making successful prosecutions irrelevant.

Woodiwiss, Michael: - Michael Woodiwiss is a senior lecturer in history at the University of the West of England. He has written extensively on organized, corporate, and state crime, including Organized Crime and American Power and Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Global Rise of Organized Crime.

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