Wild cowboys
Subtitle: urban marauders & the forces of order
By: Robert Jackall.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Wild Cowboys (Gang); Gangs -- New York (State) -- New York; Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York; Dominican Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions; Dominican Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Economic conditions
Description: In this bloody urban saga, Robert Jackall recounts how street cops, detectives, and prosecutors pieced together a puzzle-like story of narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and murders for hire, all centered on a vicious gang of Dominican youths known as the Wild Cowboys. Jackall chronicles the crime-scene investigations, frantic car chases, street arrests at gunpoint, interviews with informants, and knuckle-breaking plea bargaining that culminated in prison terms for more than forty gang members.

But he also tells a cautionary tale - one of a society with irreconcilable differences, fraught with self-doubt and moral ambivalence, where the institutional logics of law and bureaucracy often have perverse outcomes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-356) and index.