Books for Organized Crime and Corruption, Spring 2006

The following books have been ordered for Organized Crime and Corruption (Sociology 264, crosslisted under the same number in Law and Society and Ethics and Public Policy) for the coming semester. They are available at the Clark University Bookstore, but can of course also be ordered from any other source, and are also available at the library reserve desk:

Phillipe Bourgois, In Search of Respect : Selling Crack in El Barrio (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, 2002 (ISBN: 0521017114)

H. Richard Friman and Peter Andreas (eds.). The Illicit Global Economy and State Power. Rowman and Littlefield, 1999 (ISBN: 084769304X)

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection. Harvard University Press, 1996 (ISBN: 0674807421)

Stephen Kotkin and Andras Sajo (eds.), Political Corruption in Transition: A Sceptic's Handbook. Central European University Press, 2002 (ISBN: 9639241474)

Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society. University of California Press, 1992 (ISBN: 0520074343)

Vadim Volkov, Violent Entrepreneurs: The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism. Cornell University Press, 2002 (ISBN: 0801487781)

A syllabus will follow in early January, which will also include additional articles.