Organized Crime in the United States
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See Also
Alcohol and Crime: The Prohibition Experiment; Criminal Careers; Gambling; Rico (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act).
Firearms; Homicide, Definitions and Classifications of; Homicide, Epidemiology of
Capone, Alphonse; Drugs and Narcotics; Eighteenth Amendment.
Bootlegging ; Drug Trafficking, Illegal ; Organized Crime Control Act ; Tweed Ring .
Further Reading (Books)
Abadinsky, Howard. Organized Crime, 5th ed. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1977.
Albanese, Jay. Organized Crime in America, 3d ed. Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson, 1998.
Albini, Joseph. The American Mafia: Genesis of a Legend. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1971.
Beare, Margaret E. Criminal Conspiracies: Organized Crime in Canada. Scarborough, Ontario: Nelson Canada, 1996.
Bergreen, Laurence. Capone: The Man and the Era. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Best, Joel, and Luckenbill, David. Organizing Deviance, 2d ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1994.
Block, Alan. East Side-West Side: Organizing Crime in New York 1930-1950. Swansea, Wales: University College Cardiff Press, 1980.
Carter, David L. “International Organized Crime: Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurial Crime.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 10 (4) (1994): 239-266.
Cressey, Donald R. Theft of the Nation. New York: Harper and Row, 1969.
Finckenauer, James O., and Waring, Elin K. Russian Mafia in America: Immigration, Culture and Crime. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.
Godson, Roy, and Olson, William J. “International Organized Crime.” Society 32, no. 2 (1995): 18-29.
Gottfredson, Michael R., and Hirschi, Travis. A General Theory of Crime. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Haller, Mark H. “Bureaucracy and the Mafia: An Alternative View.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 8 (1982): 1-10.
–. “Illegal Enterprise: A Theoretical and Historical Interpretation.” Criminology 28 (1990): 207-235.
Ianni, Francis A. J., and Reuss-Ianni, Elizabeth. A Family Business: Kinship and Social Control in Organized Crime. New York: New American Library, 1973.
–. The Crime Society: Organized Crime and Corruption in America. New York: New American Library, 1976.
Jacobs, James B., and Gouldin, Lauryn P. “Cosa Nostra: The Final Chapter?” In Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, vol. 25. Edited by Michael Tonry. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pages 129-189.
Jenkins, Philip, and Potter, Gary. “The Politics and Mythology of Organized Crime: A Philadelphia Case Study.” Journal of Criminal Justice 15: 473-484.
Kappeler, Victor E.; Blumberg, Mark; and Potter, Gary W. The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice, 2d ed. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press Inc., 1996.
Kenney, Dennis J., and Finckenauer, James O. Organized Crime in America. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1995.
Light, Ivan. “The Ethnic Vice Industry, 1880-1944.” American Sociological Review 42 (June 1977): 464-479.
Lupsha, Peter. “Individual Choice, Material Culture, and Organized Crime.” Criminology 19 (1981): 3-24.
McIntosh, Mary. The Organization of Crime. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1975.
Moore, William Howard. The Kefauver Committee and the Politics of Crime 1950-1952. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974.
Myers, Willard H., III. “The Emerging Threat of Transnational Crime from the East.” Crime, Law and Social Change 24 (1996): 181-222.
Nelli, Humbert. The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
O’Kane, James M. The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity and the American Dream. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1992.
Pearce, Frank, and Woodiwiss, Michael. Global Crime Connections. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.
Reuter, Peter. Disorganized Crime: Economics of the Invisible Hand. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983.
–. “The Decline of the American Mafia.” The Public Interest 120 (1995): 89-99.
Richards, James R. Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering: A Handbook for Law Enforcement Officers, Auditors and Financial Investigators. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 1999.
Schatzberg, Rufus, and Kelly, Robert J. African American Organized Crime. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Smith, Dwight. The Mafia Mystique. New York: Basic Books, 1975.
Tyler, Gus. Organized Crime in America: A Book of Readings. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1967.
Further Reading (Articles)
Abadinsky, Howard. Organized Crime, 6th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.
Barlow, Hugh D. Introduction to Criminology, 7th edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
Ianni, Francis A. J. Black Mafia: Ethnic Succession in Organized Crime. New York: Pocket, 1975.
Lyman, Michael D., and Gary W. Potter. Organized Crime, 2nd edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Mustain, Gene, and Jerry Capeci. Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia. New York: Onyx, 1993.
Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Morrow, 1989.
Haller, Mark H. “Ethnic Crime: The Organized Underworld of Early Twentieth-Century Chicago.” In Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait. Edited by Melvin G. Holli and Peter d’A. Jones. Chapter 19. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1984.
—. “Bootleggers as Businessmen: From City Slums to City Builders.” In Law, Alcohol, and Order: Perspectives on National Prohibition. Chapter 9. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Lacey, Robert. Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life. New York: Century, 1991.
Reuter, Peter. Disorganized Crime: The Economics of the Visible Hand. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984.
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Further Reading (Articles 2)
OAS ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL SPEAKS AT CONFERENCE ON ‘ORGANIZED CRIME: A THREAT TO THE CARIBBEAN’, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; March 20, 2007
“Crime Must Have No Home,” Says Unodc Chief Ahead of Vienna Conference on Transnational Organized Crime, States News Service; October 10, 2012
Press Releases : Thailand Ratifies Un Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Untoc) and Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, States News Service; October 20, 2013
Shanghai turns up heat on organized crime, China Daily; April 12, 2006; Cao Li
UN GOODWILL AMBASSADOR NICOLAS CAGE URGES ACTION AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME., States News Service; October 21, 2010
Gov’t must strike at organized crime root, China Daily; March 1, 2006
POLITICS: U.N. TREATY AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME READY TO SIGN, Inter Press Service English News Wire; November 23, 2000; STAFF
Heads of Unodc and Cites Urge Wildlife and Forest Offences to Be Treated as Serious Transnational Organized Crimes, States News Service; April 23, 2013
Transnational Organized Crime Continues to Affect Vulnerable West African Countries, Says New Unodc Report, States News Service; February 25, 2013
ORGANIZED CRIMES AGAINST MANUFACTURERS & RETAILERS, Finance Wire; March 17, 2005
Cooperation between organized crime and terrorists is major concern, FBI officer says, AP Worldstream; October 6, 2005
Security Experts See Computer Worms as Potential Tool for Organized Crimes., Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; March 9, 2004
Political violence, organized crimes, terrorism, and youth;
proceedings.(NATO science for peace and security series)(E, Human and societal dynamics)(Brief article)(Book review), Reference & Research Book News; August 1, 2009
Iran Proposes Establishment of Regional, Int’l Bodies to Reduce Organized Crimes., FARS News Agency; April 14, 2012;
SRI LANKA UNDERSCORES IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO COMBAT TERRORISM, MONEY LAUNDERING, OTHER TRANS-NATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIMES, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; April 22, 2010
Organized Crime Down in Metro, Manila Bulletin; January 21, 2003
Iran Urges Security Cooperation among ECO against Organized Crimes., FARS News Agency; November 1, 2010
Libya, Tunisia to Fight Organized Crime., UMCI News (Potomac Falls, VA); October 25, 2010
LESNIAK: GOVERNOR SHOULD SUPPORT INTERNET WAGERING AND SPORTS BETTING TO SUPPORT ATLANTIC CITY AND OUR RACETRACKS SAYS RECENT FEDERAL BUST SHOWS HOW ORGANIZED CRIME IS USING ONLINE WAGERING, SPORTS BETTING BANS TO FUND ILLEGAL ACTIVITY., States News Service; May 24, 2012
Corruption’s roots deep and wide-reaching in Brazil: A parliamentary report released last week accuses more than 800 officials at all levels of organized crimes.(World), The Christian Science Monitor; December 14, 2000
Organized Crime in relation to Crime and Race
Organized Crime is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: Despite the American fascination with organized crime, as evidenced in popular media and academic attention, there is considerable disagreement as to what the term means or how to define it. The following discussions are each related to the social construction of organized crime and thus have theoretical and policy implications. Furthermore, because the operational definition of organized crime necessarily affects the criminal justice system vis-à-vis such matters as resource allocation, priority assessments, criminal sanctions, and so on, these contentious “academic” debates are, of course, ultimately related to issues of race, ethnicity, fairness, and justice. Though the study of organized crime is primarily a sociological pursuit, the phenomenon is a subject of study in numerous other disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, and political science.
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Notes and References
- Entry about Organized Crime in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime
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