Organized Crime

By Gale Cengage Learning

Book Overview

This hard-hitting volume explores whether organized crime presents a threat to the world today, how profitable some organized crime activities are, what policies should be implemented to address organized crime, and whether organized crime has moved to online. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications. Readers are exposed to many sides of each debate, which promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking. Essay sources include Walter Kemp, Caspar Walsh, Joy Olson, Reporters Without Borders, U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, and The Economist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0737769661
• ISBN13: 9780737769661
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12