The Origin of Organized Crime in America
Title | The Origin of Organized Crime in America PDF eBook |
Author | David Critchley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2008-09-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135854939 |
Introduction -- 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.
The New Ethnic Mobs
Title | The New Ethnic Mobs PDF eBook |
Author | William Kleinknecht |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Current Events |
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Once the Mafia ruled uncontested over the American criminal underworld. Now, however, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, Mexican, Cuban, Arabic, Black, and other ethnic gangs have moved in, making organized crime more dangerous--and more lucrative--than ever before. This book introduces readers to this frightening world and the colorful criminals who populate it. 20 photos.
Organized Crime in America
Title | Organized Crime in America PDF eBook |
Author | Jay S. Albanese |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Organized Crime in America
Title | Organized Crime in America PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Organized crime |
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Theft of the Nation
Title | Theft of the Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Cressey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2017-09-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351472410 |
Organized crime in America today is not the tough hoodlums familiar to moviegoers and TV watchers. It is more sophisticated, with many college graduates, gifted with organizational genius, all belonging to twenty-four tightly knit "families," who have corrupted legitimate business and infiltrated some of the highest levels of local, state, and federal government. Their power reaches into Congress, into the executive and judicial branches, police agencies, and labor unions, and into such business enterprises as real estate, retail stores, restaurants, hotels, linen-supply houses, and garbage-collection routes.How does organized crime operate? How dangerous is it? What are the implications for American society? How may we cope with it? In answering these questions, Cressey asserts that because organized crime provides illicit goods and services demanded by legitimate society, it has become part of legitimate society. This fascinating account reveals the parallels: the growth of specialization, "big-business practices" (pooling of capital and reinvestment of profits; fringe benefits like bail money), and government practices (negotiated settlements and peace treaties, defined territories, fair-trade agreements).For too long we have, as a society, concerned ourselves only with superficial questions about organized crime. "Theft of the Nation" focuses on to a more profound and searching level. Of course, organized crime exists. Cressey not only establishes this fact, but proceeds to explore it rigorously and with penetration. One need not agree with everything Cressey writes to conclude that no one, after the publication of "Theft of the Nation", can be knowledgeable about organized crime without having read this book.
Russian Mafia in America
Title | Russian Mafia in America PDF eBook |
Author | James O. Finckenauer |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781555533748 |
An examination of Russian organized crime at home and in the U.S.
Organized crime in America
Title | Organized crime in America PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy S. Bynum |
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Release | 1984 |
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