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Organized Crime : Trends in the Literature

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Jean-Paul Brodeur
Jean-Paul Brodeur*
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International Centre for Comparative Criminology, Université de Montréal
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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 35 , Issue 1-2 , 1997 , pp. 89 - 129
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Copyright © 1997 International Society for Criminology

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Report submitted to the Department of Justice and the Department of the Solicitor General, May 1996.

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