The Criminal Elite: Professional and Organized Crime

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The author . . . focuses upon two elite categories of the criminal `underworld'--the jewel thief and the `wise guy'. . . . The author's well-documented readable work lends support to the contention that research in this area of crime problem is difficult, although feasible, and in the process fills a lacuna in the literature relative to elite categories of crime. Choice

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The author ... focuses upon two elite categories of the criminal underworld'--the jewel thief and the wise guy' (made guy, ' member of organized crime). ... The author's well-documented readable work lends support to the contention that research in this area of the crime problem is difficult, although feasible, and in the process, fills a lacuna in the literature relative to elite categories of crime. Both public and academic libraries, lower-division up.-Choice
"The author ... focuses upon two elite categories of the criminal underworld'--the jewel thief and the wise guy' (made guy, ' member of organized crime). ... The author's well-documented readable work lends support to the contention that research in this area of the crime problem is difficult, although feasible, and in the process, fills a lacuna in the literature relative to elite categories of crime. Both public and academic libraries, lower-division up."-Choice

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adinsky /f Howard