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Author: David Critchley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1135854939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction -- Black hand, Calabrians, and the Mafia -- "First family" of the New York Mafia -- The Mafia and the Baff murder -- The neapolitan challenge -- New York City in the 1920s -- Castellammare war and "La Cosa Nostra" -- Americanization and the families -- Localism, tradition, and innovation.
Author: Rufus Schatzberg
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780813524450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive and objective, this study argues that organized crime in the United States results from the struggle to attain the elusive American Dream to achieve success at any cost by any means. The authors examine the social, economic, political, and cultural conditions that fostered growth of criminal groups and organizations in African American communities from the post-Civil War era to the ghettoes of today.
Author: Michael Woodiwiss
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780802082787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorisch overzicht van de samenhang en wederzijdse beïnvloeding van de georganiseerde misdaad en de politiek in de Verenigde Staten.
Author: Michael Benson
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 1438118023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the history, types, and methods of dealing with organized crime.
Author: Michael Woodiwiss
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2024-06-03
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1487543433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular histories of organized crime in the United States often look to the Mafia and the sons of early twentieth-century immigrants – such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky – for their origins. In this second edition of Organized Crime and American Power, Michael Woodiwiss refocuses on US organized crime as an American problem. The book starts in 1789, with the birth of a new nation, intended to be run according to laws and conventions, with a written commitment to civil rights. Woodiwiss examines the organization of crime before the Civil War, which damaged or destroyed the lives of those excluded from constitutional protections: Indigenous peoples, Black people, and women. The book focuses on white supremacist crime and the pernicious influence of Southern leaders in alliance with opportunistic politicians. It examines the organized crimes of powerful business interests in alliance with politicians, as well as the corrupt consequences of the US moralistic campaigns against alcohol, gambling, drugs, and abortion. Organized Crime and American Power brings solid historical evidence and analysis to the task of refuting conventional wisdom that frames organized crime as something external to US political, economic, and social systems.
Author: Hank Messick
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780600361541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael D. Lyman
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demystifies the world of organized crime by analyzing it closely and critically from a social perspective. Afro-American, Mexican, Asian, Colombian, African and Jamaican criminal groups are discussed as well as their Italian criminal counterparts who are typically thought of when the term " organized crime" is used. The book chronicles the history, current role, and future of players in the world of organized crime, along with insight on what the criminal justice system is doing to suppress organized criminals. the concept of organized crime, theories of organized criminal behavior, the evolution of organized crime, the business of organized crime, the illicit drug trade, domestic organized crime groups, a comparative perspective, terrorism as organized crime, organized crime's political and corporate alliance, controlling organized crime. For anyone interested in organized crime especially those in law enforcement.
Author: Joseph L. Albini
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0786465808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is organized crime? There have been many answers over the decades from scholars, governments, the media, pop culture and criminals themselves. These answers cumulatively created a "Mafia Mystique" that dominated discourse until after the Cold War, when transnational organized crime emerged as a pronounced, if nebulous, threat to global security and stability. The authors focus both on the American experience that dominated organized crime scholarship in the second half of the 20th century and on the more recent global scene. Case studies show that organized crime is best understood not as a series of famous gangsters and events but as a structure of everyday life formed by numerous political, social, economic and anthropological variables. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Dennis M. P. McCarthy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-05-15
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1136705821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comparative study of organized crime groups from five different parts of the world: Europe; North America; Central America/South America/Caribbean basin; Africa; and Asia/Western Pacific. Each part contains two case studies and a shorter essay, a vignette. From Europe the case studies focus on the Italian mafias and the Russian mafia; the vignette, on the Albanian mafia. From North America the case studies highlight the US Mafia and the Mexican drug cartels; the vignette, organized crime in Canada. From Central America/South America/Caribbean basin the case studies concentrate on the Colombian drug cartels and gangs of the Caribbean; the vignette, on organized crime in Cuba. From Africa the case studies examine resource wars and Somali piracy; the vignette, relations among international drugs trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism in North and West Africa. And from Asia/Western Pacific the case studies spotlight the Chinese Triads and Japanese Yakuza; the vignette, relations among international drugs trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism in Afghanistan. Written in non-specialist language, An Economic History of Organized Crime provides an original overview of a crucial problem of our times: the growing scourge of global organized crime. This book can be read with profit by the general public, but it also has value for academic specialists and professionals in law enforcement.
Author: David Southwell
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"'The History of Organized Crime' is a fascinating insight into many previously hidden aspects of the underworld. From the mysterious origins of the Sicilian Mafia, Japanese Yakuza, and the Chinese Triads to the new emerging global powers in organized crime including the Russian Organizatsiya and the Mexican Cartels, this explosive investigation reveals the past, present, and future of organized crime. From the back streets of London to neon-soaked Las Vegas, organized crime is the worlds biggest and most profitable business. A truly global enterprise, no country can claim to be free from the taint of this ever-growing threat to established society. Tackling the crimes, methods, and key figures in the worlds largest and most powerful outlaw organizations, this book traces the evolution of organized crime in chilling, entertaining and compelling detail." -- From the Amazon.
