1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000043777

Autore

Matera, Vincenzo

Titolo

La scrittura etnografica : esperienza e rappresentazione nella produzione di conoscenze antropologiche / Vincenzo Matera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Elèuthera, 2015

ISBN

978-88-96904-88-6

Descrizione fisica

175 p. ; 19 cm

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Etnologia - Linguaggio

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971203703321

Autore

Liddick Don

Titolo

The global underworld : transnational crime and the United States / / Donald R. Liddick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2004

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024

ISBN

9798400657870

9786612408298

9781282408296

1282408291

9780313051982

0313051984

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

International and comparative criminology

Disciplina

364.1/06/0973

Soggetti

Organized crime

Organized crime - United States

Transnational crime

Transnational crime - United States - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-154) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Principal Transnational Crime Groups Affecting the United States and Canada; Chapter 3 Smuggling, Transnational Theft, and ""Eco-Crime""; Chapter 4 Money Laundering and Other Financial Crimes; Chapter 5 Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction; Chapter 6 Responding to Transnational Organized Crime; Chapter 7 Summary and Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Transnational crime is an increasing national security threat to the United States and to individual citizens around the world. Criminal groups both in the United Staes and abroad operate crime cartels that span national boundaries, but in ways that affect all Americans, and wreak havoc on law enforcement organizations as well as businesses and other entities, such as the stock market. More often than not, transnational crime takes the form of organized crime, and in its many forms is responsible for over-priced goods, unsafe products, environmental hazards, corruption of public officials, the