RT Book
T1 Organized crime and American power: a history
A1 Woodiwiss, Michael
LA English
PP Toronto Buffalo London
PB University of Toronto Press
YR 2024
ED Second edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1887982051
AB "Popular histories of organized crime in the United States often look to the "Mafia" and the sons of early twentieth-century immigrants--such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky--for their origins. In this second edition of Organized Crime and American Power, Michael Woodiwiss refocuses on US organized crime as an American problem. The book starts in 1789, with the birth of a new nation, intended to be run according to laws and conventions, with a written commitment to civil rights. Woodiwiss examines the organization of crime before the Civil War, which damaged or destroyed the lives of those excluded from constitutional protections: Native Americans, African Americans, and women. The book focuses on white supremacist crime and the pernicious influence of Southern leaders in alliance with opportunistic politicians. It examines the organized crimes of powerful business interests in alliance with politicians, as well as the corrupt consequences of the US moralistic campaigns against alcohol, gambling, drugs, and abortion. Organized Crime and American Power brings solid historical evidence and analysis to the task of refuting conventional wisdom that frames organized crime as something external to US political, economic, and social systems."--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6446
SN 978-1-4875-4346-4
K1 Organisierte Kriminalität
K1 Kriminalitätsbekämpfung
K1 Geschichte
K1 Zeitgeschichte
K1 Usa
K1 Organized Crime : United States : History
K1 Organized Crime : United States : History : 20th century
K1 Organized Crime : United States : Prevention : History
K1 Crime organisé - États-Unis - Histoire
K1 USA : Organisiertes Verbrechen : Mafia : White supremacy : Rassismus : Prohibition : Drogenkonsum : Glücksspiel : Schwangerschaftsabbruch : Korruption : Geschichte