{"product_id":"double-crossed-9780745332017","title":"Double Crossed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReveals how governments and the wider establishment copy the practices of organised crime groups in order to control them\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mike Woodiwiss has dedicated his career to unpacking the often toxic packaging surrounding the concept of organized crime. In Double Crossed, he focusses on the myths of organized crime, its social, economic and legal constructions and, most importantly, the architects and  beneficiaries of this myth making' -- Professor Dick Hobbs, Author of Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK\u003cbr\u003e'As one of the foremost thinkers on organized crime, Mike Woodiwiss rarely disappoints. In this book, he is on great form' -- Kristofer Allerfeldt, University of Exeter, Author of Crime and the Rise of Modern America: A History 1865-1941\u003cbr\u003e'Brings solid historical evidence and analysis to the task of refuting conventional wisdom  that prefers to see organized crime as something external from our capitalistic political, economic and social systems' -- Margaret Beare, author of Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering and Corruption (2003)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e  Preface \u003cbr\u003e  Part I: Dumbing Down: The Construction of an Acceptable Understanding of 'Organized Crime'\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction \u003cbr\u003e  1. The Rise and Fall of Muckraking Business Criminality \u003cbr\u003e  2. America’s Moral Crusade and the Making of Illegal Markets \u003cbr\u003e  Inset 1: The Origins of Mafia Mythology in America \u003cbr\u003e  3. Charles G. Dawes and the Molding of Public Opinion on Organized Crime \u003cbr\u003e  4. Al Capone as Public Enemy Number 1\u003cbr\u003e  5. Al Capone and the Business of Crime\u003cbr\u003e  Inset 2: The Legends and Lives of Al Capone and Eliot Ness\u003cbr\u003e  6. Americanizing Mussolini’s Phony War against the Mafia\u003cbr\u003e  7. 'Organized Crime' in a Fascist State\u003cbr\u003e  8. Gangbusting and Propaganda \u003cbr\u003e  9. Thomas E. Dewey and 'the Greatest Gangster in America'\u003cbr\u003e  10. From Gangbusters to Murder Inc. \u003cbr\u003e  Part II: Lies about Criminals: Constructing an Acceptable 'History' of Organized Crime \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Genesis of the Atlantic City 'Conference' Legend \u003cbr\u003e  2. Consolidating the 'Conference' Legend \u003cbr\u003e  3. The Purge that Wasn’t\u003cbr\u003e  4. The US Government’s History of Organized Crime\u003cbr\u003e  Inset 3: Lucky Luciano and a Life in Exile \u003cbr\u003e  Part III: Covering up Failure: Constructing an Acceptable Response to 'Organized Crime'\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Mafia Mythology and the Federal Response \u003cbr\u003e  2. President Richard Nixon and Organized Crime Control \u003cbr\u003e  3. Challenging the Orthodoxy \u003cbr\u003e  4. Sustaining and Updating Mafia Mythology\u003cbr\u003e  5. From Super-Government to Super-Governments: The Pluralist Revision of Organized Crime \u003cbr\u003e  6. The Origins of the Anti-Money Laundering Regime\u003cbr\u003e  Inset 4: Meyer Lansky and the Origins of Money Laundering History\u003cbr\u003e  7. Informants, Liars and Paranoiacs \u003cbr\u003e  8. Seizing Assets to Fund the Crime War \u003cbr\u003e  9. Drug Prohibition and the Prison Gang Phenomenon\u003cbr\u003e  10. Organized Business Crime: The Elephant in the Room\u003cbr\u003e  11. Deregulation and the Rise of Corporate Fraud\u003cbr\u003e  12. Fraud and the Financial Meltdown  \u003cbr\u003e  13. Hiding the Failure of Organized Crime Control \u003cbr\u003e  14. Repression as Organized Crime Control \u003cbr\u003e  Part IV: Selling Failure: Setting the Global Agenda on Drugs, Organized Crime and Money Laundering \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Losing Corporate Criminality from Transnational Crime\u003cbr\u003e  2. Building Capacity \u003cbr\u003e  3. Americanizing the British Drug Control System\u003cbr\u003e  4. Dumbing Down the International Response to Drugs and 'Organized Crime'\u003cbr\u003e  5. Repression, Profits and Slaughter: The United States in Colombia and Mexico\u003cbr\u003e  6. The Atlantic Alliance as a Money Laundry \u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404300099927,"sku":"9780745332017","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745332017.jpg?v=1730486031","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/double-crossed-9780745332017","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}