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Crime That Pays
Frederick Dr. Desroches
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Description for Crime That Pays
Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 173 x 8. Weight in Grams: 440.
The Crime That Pays is a study of higher-level drug syndicates and organized criminals who have achieved huge incomes and status in their deviant occupation. Based on interviews with drug couriers, drug investigators, and 70 higher-level drug traffickers, the book describes the characteristics of offenders, their modus operandi, the entrepreneurial aspects of organized crime, and the significance of friendship, kinship, race, and ethnicity in the development of criminal networks.
Most of the dealers in this study operated at the wholesale level for years, had realized huge profits, and lived extravagant lifestyles. For many, their arrest occurred only after the ... Read more
The Crime That Pays is a study of higher-level drug syndicates and organized criminals who have achieved huge incomes and status in their deviant occupation. Based on interviews with drug couriers, drug investigators, and 70 higher-level drug traffickers, the book describes the characteristics of offenders, their modus operandi, the entrepreneurial aspects of organized crime, and the significance of friendship, kinship, race, and ethnicity in the development of criminal networks.
Most of the dealers in this study operated at the wholesale level for years, had realized huge profits, and lived extravagant lifestyles. For many, their arrest occurred only after the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Canadian Scholars Press Canada
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781551302317
SKU
V9781551302317
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Ref
99-3
About Frederick Dr. Desroches
Dr. Frederick J. Desroches has worked in a mental hospital, a prison, and at the Departments of Indian Affairs and the Solicitor General in Ottawa. He currently teaches in the Sociology and Legal Studies Department at St. Jerome's University, University of Waterloo.
Reviews for Crime That Pays
The Crime that Pays is a thorough and thoughtful analysis of an area that for too long been dominated by sensationalist journalism and political hyperbole. Desroches’s book should be studied carefully by criminologists, policy planners and anyone else interested in a sober assessment of how high-level drug markets operate in this country."" - Dr. Vince Sacco, Professor of Sociology at ... Read more