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Criminal Justice: Books
Resource guide for topic areas in criminology and criminal justice.
Mohamed and Frotsvold explore socio-economics, criminology, and business marketing in this study of sheltered and privileged young people turning to a life of crime. They include interviews and profiles of several college drug-dealers with clear sociological analysis.
Critchley examines the birth of organized crime in New York, including the Mafia recruitment process, relations with Mafias in Sicily, the role of non-Sicilians in New York's organized crime Families, the impact of Prohibition, and allegations that a new Mafia was created in 1931.
Examining local and national television news, broadcast network crime dramas, and the cable television prison drama Oz, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the stories and images of incarceration most widely seen by viewers in the U.S. and around the world.