The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity and the American Dream

by James M. O'Kane

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Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians, and dismissed as a subject not to be taken too seriously by those researching the mobility patterns of their own ethnic ancestors or current minority newcomers, The Crooked Ladder represents a groundbreaking attempt to describe how some members of ethnic minorities have utilized organized crime as one vehicle of upward mobility, advancing from...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:076580994X

ISBN13:9780765809940

Release Date:January 2002

Publisher:Routledge

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criminology History Minority Studies Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Sociology Specific Demographics Violence in Society

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