Organized Crime and Use of Violence: Part 2

• NCJ Number: 158729
• Date Published: 1980
• Length: 243 pages
• Corporate Author: US Congress
• Sale Source: Superintendent of Documents, GPO
• Publication Type: Legislative Hearing/Committee Report
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. See NCJ-158734 for Part I

Annotation

This document contains hearings held before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations regarding the use of violence by organized crime groups in the U.S.

Abstract

Witnesses represented the U.S. Department of Justice, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and local police agencies. Witnesses discussed the involvement of organized crime syndicates in drug trafficking and other drug- related offenses, in murder contracts, in explosions and bombings, and in other types of violent crime.