Organized crime in Chicago
Subtitle: beyond the Mafia
By: Robert M. Lombardo
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780252037306; 9780252078781
Subjects: Organized crime; Criminals; Gangs
Description: Lombardo provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago, he challenges the dominant belief that organized crime in America descends directly from the Sicilian Mafia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Explaining organized crime; title: The gem of the prairie; title: The black Mafia; title: The syndicate; title: The Forty-two Gang; title: The outfit; title: The outfit as a complex organization; title: Street crew neighborhoods.