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Book Review: America's Crime Problem: An Introduction to Criminology

Book Review: America's Crime Problem: An Introduction to Criminology BOOK REVIEWS 127 The book argues that organized criminal groups, whether or not they want to, are channelled into white collar criminal activity by the illicit nature of their operations. Ultimately, they must move some of their illicit funds into legitimate business or their stolen property into legitimate marketing outlets. Fraudulent schemes become necessary to establish legitimate title to the property and to deal with tax problems on the illicit earnings. In addition to the fact that they have to resort to white collar crime to some extent, organized criminal groups are increasingly finding white collar crime a highly profitable form of criminal involvement. One of the implications of this was investment in a powerful criminal tax prosecutive option within the Attorney General's prosecutive arsenal. In dealing with white collar crime which followed in the wake of organized crime, a mix of civil and regulatory remedies, as well as criminal sanctions, were used. The Arizona strategy is described in some detail. In broad it amounts to "containment": "[organized crime] is not an identifiable group of people or organizations but a pattern of antisocial response to be everlastingly contained like weeds in a field. No one questions the necessity of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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SAGE
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
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10.1177/000486908601900211
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BOOK REVIEWS 127 The book argues that organized criminal groups, whether or not they want to, are channelled into white collar criminal activity by the illicit nature of their operations. Ultimately, they must move some of their illicit funds into legitimate business or their stolen property into legitimate marketing outlets. Fraudulent schemes become necessary to establish legitimate title to the property and to deal with tax problems on the illicit earnings. In addition to the fact that they have to resort to white collar crime to some extent, organized criminal groups are increasingly finding white collar crime a highly profitable form of criminal involvement. One of the implications of this was investment in a powerful criminal tax prosecutive option within the Attorney General's prosecutive arsenal. In dealing with white collar crime which followed in the wake of organized crime, a mix of civil and regulatory remedies, as well as criminal sanctions, were used. The Arizona strategy is described in some detail. In broad it amounts to "containment": "[organized crime] is not an identifiable group of people or organizations but a pattern of antisocial response to be everlastingly contained like weeds in a field. No one questions the necessity of

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1986

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