The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United StatesUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 apr 1981 - 314 pagine "Dr. Nelli . . . describes the kinds of crime that prevailed in Italian immigrant enclaves in America; like most American crime, then as now, Italian crime was one aspect of the so-called culture of urban poverty—boys graduated from street gangs to criminal gangs. None of these gangs were very big until Prohibition brought the Great Leap Forward, to a level that Dr. Nelli calls 'entrepreneurial crime.' His fine account makes sense of many murderous incidents, differentiates among places, and sketches individuals and the talents (Torrio's brains, Capone's brutality) that enabled them to rise in the underworld."—New Yorker "A definitive history of organized crime in America."—American Historical Review |
Sommario
Italys South and La Mala Vita | 3 |
Italian Immigrants and Criminals in New Orleans | 24 |
Hennessys Murder and the Mafia | 47 |
The Black Hand | 69 |
Early Ventures in Syndicate Crime | 101 |
Prohibition Consolidation of the Syndicates | 143 |
The Americanization of the Mobs | 179 |
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The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States Humbert S. Nelli Visualizzazione estratti - 1976 |
Parole e frasi comuni
According activities agents Al Capone alcohol American appeared arrested became Black Hand blackmail bootlegging Brooklyn Camorra Capone Chicago chief city's Cleveland Costello court criminal syndicates dealers decades Denver district early East enforcement Esposito ethnic extortion federal files Frank Frank Costello gambling guilty Handers Harlem Hennessy Hennessy's Herbert Asbury illegal Intelligence Unit Internal Revenue Service Italian Italian colony Italian community Italian criminals Italian immigrant Italian syndicate Italian-American Italy John Torrio Joseph Joseph Petrosino Kansas City Kefauver Committee killed labor Lepke liquor Lucky Luciano Macheca machine mafia mafiosi Maranzano Masseria Matranga Morello murder narcotics newspapers officers operations Organized Crime Orleans Picayune paragraph are based Petrosino police department political politicians prison profits prohibition prostitution Provenzanos racketeering reformers reported rival San Francisco shot Sicilian Sicily smuggling society Southern Italian Street syndicate syndicate crime syndicate leaders Times-Democrat tion trial U.S. Congress underworld Valachi victim York City York's
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