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200 14$aThe global underworld$b[electronic resource] $etransnational crime and the United States /$fDonald R. Liddick
210   $aWestport, Conn. $cPraeger$d2004
215   $a1 online resource (170 p.)
225 1 $aInternational and comparative criminology
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-275-98074-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-154) and index.
327   $aContents; 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
330   $aTransnational crime is an increasing national security threat to the United States and to individual citizens around the world. Criminal groups both in the United Staes and abroad operate crime cartels that span national boundaries, but in ways that affect all Americans, and wreak havoc on law enforcement organizations as well as businesses and other entities, such as the stock market. More often than not, transnational crime takes the form of organized crime, and in its many forms is responsible for over-priced goods, unsafe products, environmental hazards, corruption of public officials, the
410  0$aInternational and comparative criminology.
606   $aTransnational crime
606   $aOrganized crime
606   $aOrganized crime$zUnited States
606   $aTransnational crime$zUnited States$xPrevention
615  0$aTransnational crime.
615  0$aOrganized crime.
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