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Organized Crime: Causes and Consequences

Organized Crime: Causes and Consequences

Loyola criminology professor Robert M. Lombardo, PhD recently published (2019) a sixteen-chapter edited volume titled: Organized Crime: Causes and Consequences. This book provides an overview of organized crime throughout the world. Whether the gangster in America, the Mafiosi in Southern Italy, or the tattooed member of the Japanese Yakuza, organized crime is an important social problem. This book is the product of the labor of many authors, each an expert in their own area of study, and concludes that organized crime occurs because of poor public policy, social structural conditions and government corruption. It is available from NOVA Science Publishers ISBN 9781536158649.