Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Eric Arnesen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415968267
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1734

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Author: Roy Godson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351505777
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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One of the more dangerous contemporary threats to the quality of life is the collaboration of the political establishment with the criminal underworld - the political-criminal nexus (PCN). This active partnership increasingly undermines the rule of law, human rights, and economic development in many parts of the world. States in transition are especially at risk. Despite the magnitude of the threat, there is little understanding of the security threats by the PCNs and how and why political-criminal relationships are formed and maintained. Menace to Society is the first attempt to develop an analytical framework for making generalizations about this contemporary scourge. Case studies of Colombia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia and Ukraine, and the United States by leading scholars and practitioners included here answer such key questions as: How do PCNs get established? How is a PCN maintained, and destroyed? What do the participants want from each other in a PCN? What can be learned from those who have successfully countered the PCN? The findings indicate that political, economic, and cultural factors play a significant role in the formation and evolution of PCNs. When the institutions of the state are weak, as in Nigeria and Colombia, it is difficult for the state to prevent political-criminal collaboration. A lack of checks and balances, either from civil society or opposition political parties such as described in the cases of Mexico and Russia, is a key factor. Cultural patterns tend to facilitate this kind of collaboration. Markets and economics, too, bear on the PCN issue. The supply and demand for illegal goods and services, not only drugs, in many countries creates a market controlled by criminals who need political help to "run" their business. Menance to Society will be critical reading for security planners, foreign and military policymakers, and political scientists.

Author: Alison Owings
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520931220
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side? Hey, Waitress! aims to tell us. Containing lively, personal portraits of waitresses from many different walks of life, this book is the first of its kind to show the intimate, illuminating, and often shocking behind-the-scenes stories of waitresses' daily shifts and daily lives. Alison Owings traveled the country—from border to border and coast to coast—to hear firsthand what waitresses think about their lives, their work, and their world. Part journalism and part oral history, Hey, Waitress! introduces an eclectic cast of characters: a ninety-five-year-old Baltimore woman who may have been the oldest living waitress, a Staten Island firebrand laboring at a Pizza Hut, a well-to-do runaway housewife, a Native American proud of her financial independence, a college student loving her diner more than her studies, a Cajun grandmother of twenty-two, and many others. The book also offers vivid slices of American history. The stories describe the famous sit-in at the Woolworth's counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, which helped spark the civil rights movement; early struggles for waitress unions; and battles against sexually discriminatory hiring in restaurants. A superb and accessible means of breaking down stereotypes, this book reveals American waitresses in all their complexity and individuality, and will surely change the way we order, tip, and, most of all, behave in restaurants.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Languages : en
Pages : 908

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Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160845789
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910

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