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050 00 $aHV6446$b.A224 2000
082 00 $a364.1/06/0973$221
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100 1 $aAbadinsky, Howard,$d1941-
245 10 $aOrganized crime /$cHoward Abadinsky.
250 $a6th ed.
260 $aBelmont, CA :$bWadsworth,$c©2000.
300 $axvi, 527 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aChapter 1. Organized Crime: Attributes and Structure -- Bureaucratic/Corporate Model -- Patrimonial/Patron-Client Networks -- Italian-American OC: The New York Model -- Membership -- Crews -- The Boss -- The Commission -- Rules -- Organized Crime: The Chicago Version -- Outfit Membership -- Analysis of the Structure -- The Lawyer as Consigliere -- Goodfellas -- Membership and OC in Cleveland -- Organized Crime and Gratuitous Violence -- Rules of Traditional Organized Crime -- Chapter 2. Explaining Organized Crime -- Anomie and Culture Conflict -- Differential Association -- Subcultures and Social Disorganization -- Differential Opportunity -- Social Control Theory -- Ethnic Succession -- OC and the Media -- The New Wiseguys -- Not Rocket Scientists -- Chapter 3. Organized Crime: Antecedents -- The Robber Barons -- John Jacob Astor -- Cornelius Vanderbilt -- The Erie Ring -- Daniel Drew -- James Fisk -- Jay Gould -- Russell Sage -- Leland Stanford -- John D. Rockefeller -- J. Pierpont Morgan -- Kindred Spirits -- Urban Machine Politics -- Immigration -- The Irish -- The Saloon and the Machine -- Underworld and Upperworld -- Reform -- Nativism -- Prohibition -- Organized Crime -- Family Legacy -- The Political Machine -- Social Darwinism -- Changes in the Social Order -- Dutch Treat -- Chapter 4. The History of Organized Crime: Part One -- The Media and Organized Crime -- Tammany Hall -- The Tammany Police -- The Tammany Gangs -- Jewish Organized Crime in New York -- Arnold Rothstein -- Dutch Schultz, Owney Madden, and Waxey Gordon -- Lepke Buchalter -- Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Siegel -- Interethnic Cooperation: Murder, Inc. -- Italian Organized Crime in New York -- The Mezzogiorno -- Sicily and the Mafia -- The Cosca -- Mussolini and the Mafia -- Southern Italians in New York -- The Castellammarese War -- Luciano/Genovese Family -- Frank Costello -- Vito Genovese -- Mineo/Gambino Family -- Albert Anastasia -- Carlo Gambino -- John Gotti -- Reina/Lucchese Family -- Profaci/Colombo Family -- The Gallo Brothers -- Joseph Colombo -- Bonanno Family -- The Apalachin Crime Conference -- The Five Families -- Philadelphia -- The Early Days -- Nig Rosen -- Bruno Family -- Nicky Scarfo -- After Scarfo -- Organized Crime 101 -- Magistrate Vitale of Tammany Hall -- La Guardia -- Legs Diamond -- Gregory Scarpa -- Hunting Season -- Chapter 5. The History of Organized Crime: Part Two -- Chicago -- Mike McDonald -- "Hinky Dink" and John "The Bath" -- William Hale Thompson -- Anton Cermak -- Mont Tennes -- From Colosimo to Torrio to Capone -- Al Capone -- Prohibition -- The Torrio Organization -- When You Smell Gunpowder, You're in Cicero -- The Chicago Wars -- South Side Beer War -- West Side Beer War -- The Pineapple Primary -- Al Capone's Chicago -- Business and Labor Racketeering -- Capone's Downfall -- Organized Crime in Chicago after Capone: The Outfit Emerges -- Paul Ricca -- Tony Accardo -- Sam Giancana -- Outfit Street Crews and Their Neighborhoods -- Taylor Street -- Grand Avenue -- Twenty-Sixth Street -- The North Side -- Chicago Heights -- The Outfit Today -- The First Ward -- Jake Guzik -- "Damned If You Do ..." -- Chapter 6. Organized Crime: Italian, Russian, Irish, Biker -- Camorra -- 'Ndrangheta -- Nuovo Mafia/Cosa Nostra -- Politics and the Mafia -- Zips -- The Mafiya: Russian Organized Crime -- Mafiya in the United States -- Irish Organized Crime: Boston -- Irish Organized Crime: The Westies -- Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs -- Structure -- Activities -- Governing Italy -- American versus Italian Mafia -- Economic Determinism -- A Change in Mafia Etiquette -- The Unchanging Mafia -- Italian Organized Crime in Canada -- The Mafia Goes Nuclear -- Russian Mafia -- Tort Action, Russian Style -- The New Russian Authoritarianism -- Politics, Russian Style -- Fuel Oil Scam -- Jerry Angiulo -- The Outlaw Motorcycle Club and OC -- The Outlaw Credo -- Hells Angels -- Chapter 7. Organized Crime: Latino, Asian, Black -- Latino Organized Crime -- The Cuban-Colombian Connection -- Colombia -- Medellin -- Cali -- Mexican Organizations -- Dominicans -- Asian Organized Crime -- Yakuza -- Triads, Tongs, and Asian Gangs -- Black Organized Crime -- Nigerians -- Jamaican Posses -- Other Black Organizations -- Compartmentalized Colombian Drug Organization -- The Mexican Mafia -- "The Independent Republic of Dope" -- The Danger from Mexico -- Kobe Godfather -- Quid Pro Quo, Japanese Style -- Colombian Ties -- Vietnamese Gangs -- A German Problem -- According to the FBI -- Chapter 8. The Business of Organized Crime: Gambling, Loansharking, Theft, Fencing, and Sex -- Gambling -- Bookmaking -- Lotteries/Numbers -- Casino Gambling and Related Activities -- Miscellaneous Gambling -- Loansharking (Usury) -- Theft and Fencing -- Stolen Securities -- Fencing -- The Business of Sex -- Moe Dalitz -- "Pay Day Loans" -- Chapter 9. Organized Crime in Labor and Business -- Organized Labor in America -- Labor Racketeering -- Laborers International Union -- Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HEREIU) -- International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) -- International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) -- Business Racketeering -- Labor Leasing -- The Garment Center -- The Construction Industry -- Private Solid Waste Carting -- Organized Crime and Legitimate Business -- Detroit Cosa Nostra -- Union Weakness -- OC Entitlements -- Policing Illegal Contracts Is International -- Modern Money Laundering -- The Cayman Islands -- Western and South Pacific -- Chapter 10. The Business of Organized Crime: Drugs -- Historical Background -- Morphine and Heroin -- Pure Food and Drug Act -- China and the Opium Wars -- The "Chinese Problem" and the American Response -- The Twentieth Century -- The Harrison Act -- Heroin -- The Business of Heroin -- The Golden Triangle -- The Golden Crescent -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Distribution -- Cocaine -- Crack -- Street-Level Drug Business -- Cannabis -- Synthetic Drugs -- Barbiturates -- Methaqualone -- Amphetamines -- Phencyclidine (PCP) -- Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) -- Analogs and Designer Drugs -- Fighting the Drug Trade in Pakistan -- Black Tar Heroin -- Shotgunning -- One Ship, One Ton -- Marijuana Gardening Indoors -- Chapter 11. Responding to Organized Crime: Laws and Law Enforcement -- Constitutional Restraints -- Jurisdictional Limitations -- Corruption -- Informants -- Statutes -- Internal Revenue Code -- Controlled Substances Statutes -- The Hobbs Act -- Conspiracy -- RICO -- Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute -- Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA) -- Forfeiture -- Money Laundering -- Law Enforcement -- Department of Justice (DOJ) -- Department of the Treasury -- Department of Transportation/Coast Guard -- Department of Defense (DOD) -- Other Federal Enforcement Agencies -- Interpol -- Investigative Tools in Organized Crime Law Enforcement -- Intelligence -- Electronic Surveillance -- Grand Jury -- Immunity -- Corruption in Mexico -- In Los Angeles -- Nick Mitola, Jr. -- Informant -- Other Dangers -- The Wiseguy and the Agent -- Antidiversion Legislation -- RICO and the Colombo Crime Family -- Commission Case -- Get Out of Jail (Almost) Free -- Mule Skinning -- Wayward Witnesses -- Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) -- Electronic Surveillance Terminology -- "Double Jeopardy" -- Chapter 12. Organized Crime: Committees, Commissions, and Policy Issues -- Life Imitating Art -- The Kefauver Crime Committee -- The McClellan Committee -- Joseph Valachi -- President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- President's Commission on Organized Crime (PCOC) -- Organized Crime Policy -- Drug Policy -- Pros and Cons of Drug Maintenance and Decriminalization -- Using the Military -- Controlling Drugs at Their Sources -- Politics and Terrorism -- Latent Effects of Drug Policy -- The Problem of Synthetic Drugs -- The Godfather -- A Sting Hurts -- Exploitation -- The Role of Government -- Bipartisan Insanity? -- Three Models of Drug Maintenance and Decriminalization -- Corrupting the Navy -- Call Out the Marines -- Air Force High -- "Winning Hearts and Minds" -- Hypocrisy?
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