Organized Crime and American Power
Title | Organized Crime and American Power PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Woodiwiss |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 484 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780802082787 |
Historisch overzicht van de samenhang en wederzijdse beïnvloeding van de georganiseerde misdaad en de politiek in de Verenigde Staten.
Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States
Title | Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Kelly |
Publisher | Greenwood |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000-04-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0313306532 |
Covers major underworld figures and key criminal events as well as the Mafia, La Cosa Nostra, African American organized crime, Chinese triads, the Colombian drug cartels, ecocrime, Russian organized crime, and Latin gangs.
Organized Crime in the United States, 1865–1941
Title | Organized Crime in the United States, 1865–1941 PDF eBook |
Author | Kristofer Allerfeldt |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2018-01-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 147662996X |
Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians? Why do they immortalize Al Capone while forgetting his more successful contemporaries George Remus or Roy Olmstead? Why are some public figures repudiated for their connections to the mob while others gain celebrity status? Drawing on historical accounts, the author analyzes the public’s understanding of organized crime and questions some of our most deeply held assumptions about crime and its role in society.
Organized Crime in America
Title | Organized Crime in America PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Jay Kenney |
Publisher | Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | 428 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Education |
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This text includes complete discussion of theories of organized crime, major forms of organized crime, and deterrence. It goes beyond other texts in providing a thorough discussion of the history of organized crime as well as emerging new crime organizations.
The Origin of Organized Crime in America
Title | The Origin of Organized Crime in America PDF eBook |
Author | David Critchley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 601 |
Release | 2008-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135854920 |
While the later history of the New York Mafia has received extensive attention, what has been conspicuously absent until now is an accurate and conversant review of the formative years of Mafia organizational growth. David Critchley examines the Mafia recruitment process, relations with Mafias in Sicily, the role of non-Sicilians in New York’s organized crime Families, kinship connections, the Black Hand, the impact of Prohibition, and allegations that a "new" Mafia was created in 1931. This book will interest Historians, Criminologists, and anyone fascinated by the American Mafia.
Mafia
Title | Mafia PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Giancana |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 946 |
Release | 2009-11-04 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 006198647X |
Some time in the early 1960s, during the golden age of organized crime in America—the era that would inspire The Godfather; Goodfellas, and even The Sopranos—federal investigators pulled every known piece of information on more than 800 Mafia members worldwide into a thick, phone-book-sized directory. From old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mickey Cohen to young turks like Paul Castellano and Vinny "The Chin" Gigante, the guide offered at-a-glance profiles of small-time thugs and major dons alike... and was allegedly the book Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used to investigate the mob. Recently discovered, and published for the first time in this facsimile edition, Mafia is a treasure trove of info on the underworld in mid-century America—a revelatory artifact and an irresistible read.
Gangster Capitalism
Title | Gangster Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Woodiwiss |
Publisher | Constable & Robinson |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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We know all about organized crime. Blockbuster movies and books, and thousands of news stories continually tell an eager public that organized crime is what gangsters do. Closely knit, ethnically distinct, and ruthlessly efficient, these mafias control the drugs trade, people trafficking and other serious crimes. If only states would take the threat seriously and recognize the global nature of modern organized crime, the FBI's success against the New York mafias could be replicated throughout the world. The wicked trade in addictive drugs could be halted. The trouble is, as Michael Woodiwiss demonstrates in shocking and surprising detail, what everyone knows is pretty much completely wrong. Organized crime is dominated by employees of multinational companies, politicians and bureaucrats. Gangsters are a problem, but they are minor players when compared with the intelligence and law enforcement agencies that selectively enforce drugs prohibition and profit from it. The position of large corporations in the global economy provides the most mouth-watering opportunities for illegal profits. Woodiwiss shows how respectable businessmen and revered statesmen have seized these opportunities in an orgy of fraud and illegal violence that would leave the most hardened Mafioso speechless with admiration.