KO-LIN CHIN is a senior research analyst for the New York City Criminal Justice Agency. He has published several articles on drug use and criminality, including Violence as Regulation and Social Control in the Distribution of Crack and Initiation into Crack and Cocaine: A Tale of Two Epidemics.

Foreword by Francis A.J. Ianni
Preface
Introduction
Background Issues
Defining Organized Crime by Michael D. Maltz
Organized Crime: History and Historiography by Alan A. Block
Perspectives on Organized Crime: Theory and Research
Models of Organized Crime by Jay S. Albanese
Research on American Organized Crime by Peter Reuter
Illicit Enterprise: An Organized Crime Paradigm for the Nineties by Dwight C. Smith, Jr.
Organized Crime Groups and Operations
The Bruno Family of Philadelphia: Organized Crime as a Regulatory Agency by Mark H. Haller
The Organized Crime Neighborhoods of Chicago by Robert M. Lombardo
African American Organized Crime by Rufus Schatzberg
Chinese Organized Crime in America by Ko-lin Chin, Robert J. Kelly, and Jeffrey Fagan
Russian Organized Crime in America by James O. Finckenauer
Racketeering in the New York City District School Boards by William J. Cook, Jr.
Organized Crime and Commercial Sex by Charles Winick
Turning Black Money into Green: Money Laundering by Robert J. Kelly, Rufus Schatzberg, and Ko-lin Chin
Control and Containment: Law Enforcement Strategies
A History of Organized Crime Control: Federal Strike Forces by Patrick J. Ryan
Intelligence and Analysis within the Organized Crime Function by Marilyn B. Peterson
The Role of Crime Commissions in Organized Crime Control by Charles H. Rogovin and Frederick T. Martens
Organized Crime and Drug Abuse Control by Mark A.R. Kleiman
Policing Emerging Organized Crime Groups by John Dombrink and John Huey-Long Song
The Prosecutor as Problem Solver by Ronald Goldstock
RICO: The Federal Experience (Criminal and Civil) and an Analysis of Attacks Against the Statute by G. Robert Blakey
Without Fear of Retribution: The Witness Security Program by Robert J. Kelly, Rufus Schatzberg, and Ko-lin Chin
Epilogue by Joseph L. Albini
Bibliographical Essay
Index