Understanding Organized Crime in Global Perspective: A Reader Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	The Functions and Structure and Criminal Syndicates	3
2	Donald Cressey's Contributions to the Study of Organized Crime: An Evaluation	16
3	The Evil That Men Do	26
4	Trapped in the Folds of Discourse: Theorizing About the Underworld	39
5	Bureaucracy and the Mafia: An Alternative View	52
6	The Mafia and the Devil: What They Have in Common	63
7	Mafia Memoirs: What They Tell Us About Organized Crime	71
8	The social Organization of Organized Crime in Chicago	91
9	Asian Gangs and Asian Organized Crime in Chicago	107
10	Bandit Banks: Financial Services and Organized Crime	115
11	International Organized Crime: Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurial Crime	131
12	Russian Organized Crime: Its History, Structure, and Function	153
13	Primitive Capitalist Accumulation: Russia as a Racket	174
14	Russia's Great Criminal Revolution: The Role of the Security Services	187
15	Organized Crime in the Former Royal Colony of Hong Kong	205
16	Hong Kong After 1997: Transnational Organized Crime in a Shrinking World	214
17	The Evolution and Future Direction of Southeast Asian Criminal Organizations	220
	References	227
	Index	237
	About the Editors	245
	About the Contributors	247