Mark H. Haller

Illegal Enterprise

The Work of Historian Mark Haller
Herausgeber: Yeager, Matthew G.

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Produktbeschreibung

Representing over four decades of work, this monograph by historian Mark H. Haller includes his work on organized crime in Chicago. This book incorporates Haller's critique of the Mafia model of organized crime and his elaboration of the illegal enterprise model of gangsters and their role in the American subeconomy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9780761860617
• ISBN-10: 0761860614
• Artikelnr.: 38138306

Autorenporträt

By Mark H. Haller - Edited by Matthew G. Yeager

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Chicago Chapter 1: Illinois Association for Criminal Justice
Chapter 2: John Landesco and the Illinois Crime Survey (1929) Chapter 3:
Organized Crime in Urban Society: Chicago in the Twentieth Century (1971)
Chapter 4: Biographical Sketches: Al Capone, Jack Guzik, Arnold Rothstein,
Meyer Lansky and Max Hoff; Definition of Organized Crime Part II :
Philadelphia Chapter 5: Philadelphia Bootlegging and the Report of the
Special August Grand Jury (1985) Chapter 6: The Bruno Family of
Philadelphia: Organized Crime as a Regulatory Agency (1994) Chapter 7:
Loansharking in Philadelphia: Social Control in an Illegal Enterprise
(1992) Part III - Illegal Enterprise Theory Chapter 8: The Changing
Structure of American Gambling in the Twentieth Century (1979) Chapter 9:
Loansharking in American Cities: Historical Analysis of a Marginal
Enterprise (1977) Chapter 10: Bootleggers as Businessmen: From City Slums
to City Builders (1985) Chapter 11: Illegal Enterprise: A Theoretical and
Historical Interpretation (1990) Subject Index