Bootlegging, Prostitution, and Corruption
Title | Bootlegging, Prostitution, and Corruption PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Roberts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Ogden (Utah) |
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Prostitution, Drugs, Gambling, and Organized Crime
Title | Prostitution, Drugs, Gambling, and Organized Crime PDF eBook |
Author | Eric H. Monkkonen |
Publisher | De Gruyter Saur |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
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Part of a series examining the history of crime and justice in America, this volume looks at the development of vice. The contributors assess the prohibition years, the geography of urban sex, the growth of gambling and the structure of intercity criminal activity.
Crime, Crusades and Corruption
Title | Crime, Crusades and Corruption PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Woodiwiss |
Publisher | Burns & Oates |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Crime |
ISBN |
Betting, Booze, and Brothels
Title | Betting, Booze, and Brothels PDF eBook |
Author | Wanda A. Landry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 9781571689177 |
By the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, gambling and prostitution thrived as elected officials either looked the other way or took money to keep quiet. That is, until 1960 when a swashbuckling young state legislator blew into town and spearheaded an intensive investigation into the rampant vice and governmental corruption that supported it. And, at a time when such things were virtually unheard of, he and his committee played it out on live television. When the dust finally cleared, the local governments of Jefferson County were turned inside out.
Wicked Decatur
Title | Wicked Decatur PDF eBook |
Author | Troy Taylor |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2011-04-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1625841167 |
In 1854, Decatur was nicknamed "Hell's Half Acre."? By the 1910s and 1920s, the town was referred to as the "Second Most Corrupt City in Illinois, "? gaining notoriety as a place where murder, bootlegging, prostitution, kidnapping, gambling and political corruption were common. Members of the Decatur police force, like Troy Taylor's great-grandfather, were hard-pressed to bar the door against crime in a town that seemed determined to remain wide-open. Wicked Decatur presents a rogue's gallery of those who have slipped through the cracks of legality over the past century and a half.
Portland Confidential
Title | Portland Confidential PDF eBook |
Author | Phil Stanford |
Publisher | West Winds Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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From a Portland Tribune columnist comes Portland Confidential, the story of Big Jim Elkins, a conman and criminal who arrived in Portland in 1937 and helped unleash prostitution, bootlegging, gambling, and drug running.
Al Capone's Beer Wars
Title | Al Capone's Beer Wars PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Binder |
Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2022-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781633888326 |
Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been--until now--a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs and also examines the other major rackets, such as prostitution, gambling, labor and business racketeering, and narcotics. A major focus is how the Capone gang -- one of twelve major bootlegging mobs in Chicago at the start of Prohibition--gained a virtual monopoly over organized crime in northern Illinois and beyond. Binder also describes the fight by federal and local authorities, as well as citizens' groups, against organized crime. In the process, he refutes numerous myths and misconceptions related to the Capone gang, other criminal groups, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and gangland killings. What emerges is a big picture of how Chicago's underworld evolved during this period. This broad perspective goes well beyond Capone and specific acts of violence and brings to light what was happening elsewhere in Chicagoland and after Capone went to jail. Based on 25 years of research and using many previously unexplored sources, this fascinating account of a bloody and colorful era in Chicago history will become the definitive work on the subject.