The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States
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Book Overview
"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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226571327
ISBN13:9780226571324
Release Date:April 1981
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
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Good Italian Mob History Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I had to read this for a college class I took called The History of Urban Crime..This is a good book to get the general overview about the Italian Mafia...Black Hand gang was kind of a form of terrorism back then...."He is a friend of ours"...Hhehehehe....I like cover picture also...There are better, more thorough mob history books out there..But this would be a good one to start with
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