Title: Organized crime in America /
Authors: Kenney, Dennis Jay.; Finckenauer, James O.
Publisher: Wadsworth Pub. Co.,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Organized crime United States; Organized crime United States History
Contents: 1. Problems of definition: What is organized crime? -- 2. The theories of organized crime: Explaining the past, the present, and the future -- 3. In the beginning: Blackbeard and the others -- 4. Organized crime as an evolving enterprise: Crime in New York -- 5. Organized crime as an evolving enterprise: Crime in Chicago -- 6. The role of Prohibition -- 7. Prohibition today: Narcotics, control, and organized crime -- 8. Gambling, loans, and the other businesses of organized crime -- 9. Myths and organized crime: Is there a mafia, and does it really matter? -- 10. Ethnic and international organized crime -- 11. Urban gangs, motorcycle gangs, and hate groups: Other forms of domestic organized crime? -- 12. Methods of combating organized crime -- 13. Policy issues in dealing with organized crime.