Most research on organized crime reveals only a limited sense of
its history. Our understanding suffers as a result. Space, Time,
and Organized Crime shows how arguments about the sources,
consequences, and extent of crime are distorted as a consequence of
crude empiricism. Originally published in Europe in 1991 as
Perspectives on Organizing Crime, this book is a timely blend of
history, criticism, and research. Fully one-fourth of this new
edition contains hitherto unpublished materials especially relevant
to the American experience.
Space, Time, and Organized Crime describes the background of
Progressive Era New York. It then broadens its scope by exploring
the changes in drug production and distribution in Europe from
about 1925 to the mid-1930s. Block addresses such little explored
issues as the ethnicity of traders, the structure of drug
syndicates, and the impact of legislation that attempted to
criminalize increasing aspects of the world's narcotic industry
prior to the Second World War. He then goes on to present organized
crime's involvement with transnational political movements,
intelligence services, and political murders. Space, Time, and
Organized Crime concentrates on ambiguities evident in organized
crime control, such as the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's
protection of criminal off-shore financial interests, and the
contradictions found in America's war on drugs.
Space, Time, and Organized Crime demonstrates that the
essential nature of crime in the twentieth century (regardless of
where it takes place) cannot be understood without sound historical
studies and a more sophisticated criminological approach. Block's
unique blend of stratification in a historical context will be of
special interest to historians, sociologists, criminologists, and
penologist.
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