Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy
- Authors
- Allum, Felia
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Tags
- democracy , criminology , political science , political ideologies , social science , general , organized crime , true crime
- ISBN
- 9780415467278
- Date
- 2003-07-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.45 MB
- Lang
- en
This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from the United States, Japan, Russia, South America, France, Italy and the European Union.