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A History of American Organized Crime

by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...

La Cosa Nostra & The Cali Cartel

province, " as well as eleven affluent landowners (FBI, 2008). He was taken into federal custody in New Orleans in 1881 and sent b...

Organized Crime

the society was used to having it and thus would not simply sit quite while it was illegal. But, Prohibition is a good example of ...

What is Organized Crime?

house and steal, or mug someone on the street, in order to get money to get more drugs. This is not organized and is ultimately ve...

Comparative Analysis of Organized Crime in Japan, China, Russia, and Mexico

the don (also known as Godfather) at the top of the hierarchy, with sottocapos (underbosses), and caporegimes (soldiers) below. I...

Organized Crime in America

of organized crime is contained within legitimate businesses including small-scale trucking, automobile sales, and bakeries, and l...

Proposed Policy on Organized Crime

public desires media to provide "fair coverage of the facts" of a case, so that it becomes possible to formulate an informed opini...

Organized Crime and Its Control

one knows what to do about it or how to control it. This paper describes the structure and relationships of organized crime, criti...

Organized Crime and Social Institutions

lives. They provide a community with a common definition for concepts like obligation and function. This paper considers the conne...

Organized Crime and Social Institutions: A Study

a positive view of the term. Social institutions, one tends to feel, are helpful things like libraries, fire departments, families...

Social Disorganization and Organized Crime

concerning problems of our time. It has both direct and indirect impacts on the physical and philosophical infrastructural featur...

Controlling Organized Crime

contingencies of the contemporary world. The FBI Organized Crime Program utilizes a methodology designed to provide the maximum ef...

Planning an Attack on Organized Crime

more importantly, there is a great bond between the men who run these "families." Once a male is born into one, the chances are gr...

Organized Crime Impresario Meyer Lansky

In six pages this essay profiles the life of organized crime boss and financial genius Meyer Lansky with a comparison that include...

St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Organized Crime

In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...

Mafia Crime Family the Genoveses

In ten pages the Genovese crime family is examined in terms of history, and organized crime activities. Sixteen sources are cited...

Piven, Goldfield, and Greenstone on Politics and the Role of Labor

In ten pages this report discusses the analysis offered by these theorists regarding American politics and the influence of organi...

The Westies/Organized Crime Theory

where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...

Chicago History and Organized Crime

on the door of the house (Kelly) and indicative of the violence which ruled Chicago during the gangster era. Chicago regards its ...

Hell's Angels, An Overview

This research paper pertains to Hell's Angels, tracing the history of the motorcycle club, and describing its prevalence and invol...

Social Order and Organized Crime

In sixteen pages this research paper discusses how social order was destroyed by organized crime groups throughout history with so...

Organized Crime in Japan and the Yakuza

The Yakuza organized crime organizations of Japan are discussed in twenty five pages in an overview of history, participation, gan...

Corruption and Police

has the profession of law enforcement. We, both individually and collectively, entrust our police officers with our security, wit...

South Philly Overview

(Learning Center/Philadelphia). However, shipbuilding still employed some 50,000 workers after World War II, but then began a pre...

Critically Examining America's Juvenile Gangs

also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...

Yakuza, Triad, and Mafia History

1924, when Mussilini made an aggressive move to get rid of the Mafia in Italy, many more fled to the United States which increased...

Stereotypes Involving Organized Crime and Italian Americans

crime as a malignant tumor on the face of society. After assessing the facts against what popular culture has had to say about th...

Organized Crime Bosses

In ten pages this paper examines American organized crime in a consideration of who leads it and how do they do it. None sources ...

American Prohibition and the Economic Boom of the 1920s

At the turn of the century, dry legislatures had been favoring womens suffrage and also allowed popular referenda in respect to wh...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...