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Fighting Organized Crime and the Threats to Business

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It is commonplace to speak of ‘the crime problem’, but ‘crimes’ are most fruitfully broken down in order to combat them more effectively, while at the same time one needs to look at their interrelationships. Both crimes and business/public fears about them are important inhibitors of commerce and social contentment.

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Levi, M. (2014). Fighting Organized Crime and the Threats to Business. In: Gill, M. (eds) The Handbook of Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-67284-4_12

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