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Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States (Chap. 11 "Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City School Boards") » Read Now
by Robert J. Kelly, Ko-Lin Chin, Rufus Schatzberg. 546 pgs.

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Internationally known authorities in criminal justice provide one of the most comprehensive assessments today of the diverse ethnic and racial groups in the criminal underworld and their grave threats to the very fabric of American society. This coherent overview describes Mafia, Chinese, African...
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Internationally known authorities in criminal justice provide one of the most comprehensive assessments today of the diverse ethnic and racial groups in the criminal underworld and their grave threats to the very fabric of American society. This coherent overview describes Mafia, Chinese, African American, Russian, and other criminal activities in different cities currently with historical background, showing the pernicious effects that their illicit operations have had on the economic, social, political, and moral life of the nation. This one-volume reference also assesses law enforcement and crime control programs during the 20th century. This sobering overview should be required reading for specialist and general audiences alike and for broad library use given the serious threats of organized crime to all Americans in the 1990s.
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It's a Racket! (1929) » Read Now
by Gordon L. Hostetter, Thomas Quinn Beesley. 302 pgs.

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...criminal activities were a growing stench. Racketeering became so acute that the then States...his entire time to investigation of racketeering. A month after his defeat...
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The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America (Chap. 7 "Unholy Alliances: The Senate Rackets Committee, the Teamsters, and Labor Politics") » Read Now
by Lee Bernstein. 237 pgs.

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The term Cold War has long been associated with the "red menace" of communism at home and abroad. Yet as Lee Bernstein shows in this illuminating study, during the 1950s the threat posed by organized crime preoccupied Americans at least as much as the fear of communist subversion. At the beginning...
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The term Cold War has long been associated with the "red menace" of communism at home and abroad. Yet as Lee Bernstein shows in this illuminating study, during the 1950s the threat posed by organized crime preoccupied Americans at least as much as the fear of communist subversion. At the beginning of the decade, the televised hearings of Senator Estes Kefauver's crime committee, focusing on colorful mob figures such as Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello, attracted far more attention than the spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. In the years that followed, public concern about gangsters and racketeering continued unabated, even after the anticommunist fever of McCarthyism had begun to subside.
Drawing on a broad range of evidence, from government records to films, television shows, and pulp novels, Bernstein explains how the campaign against organized crime, like the crusade against communism, reflected deep social and political anxieties. Just as the inquisitions of Senator McCarthy fed on popular fears,of international conspiracy and alien infiltration, the anticrime investigations of the 1950s raised the specter of a foreign-based criminal cartel -- the Sicilian Mafia -- preying on a vulnerable American public. In both cases, the association of the foreign-born with criminal or un-American activity led to the creation of state and local citizens committees and to calls for new restrictions on immigration. Labor unions also came under attack, particularly after the McClellan Committee and its chief counsel, Robert F. Kennedy, claimed to have found a link between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, led by Jimmy Hoffa, and the Mafia.
As Bernstein points out, despitesignificant changes in the way organized crime actually operated, and despite repeated protests from Italian Americans, the popular image of the sinister gangster persisted, because it served a more profound need. In an era marked
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Society in Transition: Problems of a Changing Age ("Labor Racketeering and Industrial Espionage" begins on p. 145) » Read Now
by Harry Elmer Barnes. 1022 pgs.

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...Vigilantism 139 Labor Racketeering and Industrial Espionage 145...the Evolution of Organized Crime and Racketeering 685 The Family Tree...and Methods of Organized Crime and...
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The Teamsters Union: A Study of Its Economic Impact (Chap. 10 "Investigations of Teamster Racketeering") » Read Now
by Robert D. Leiter. 306 pgs.

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...delve deeply into the intricacies of racketeering in the teamster organization nor to...10. INVESTIGATIONS OF TEAMSTER RACKETEERING 221 Background of Labor Racketeering 222...
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Attacking Corruption in Union-Management Relations: A Symposium Introduction, in Industrial & Labor Relations Review » Read Now
by James B. Jacobs, Thomas D. Thacher II. 7 pgs.

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...into allegations of corruption and racketeering in the New York City construction...the persistence of corruption and racketeering in New York City construction...
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The Scandal of George Scalise: A Case Study in the Rise of Labor Racketeering in the 1930s, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by David Witwer. 26 pgs.

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...A Case Study in the Rise of Labor Racketeering in the 1930s. by David Witwer...popular accounts of the rise of labor racketeering in the 1930s abound, much of this...
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The Waterfront Commission of the Port of New York: A History and Appraisal, in Industrial & Labor Relations Review » Read Now
by Peter B. Levy. 16 pgs.

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AFL-CIO, Labor United (Discussion of racketeering begins on p. 187) » Read Now
by Arthur J. Goldberg. 319 pgs.

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Has the Supreme Court Really Turned RICO Upside Down?: An Examination of NOW v. Scheidler, in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology » Read Now
by Michael Vitiello. 34 pgs.

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...predicate offenses and a pattern of racketeering activity. Third, only two justices...conducted earlier hearings into labor racketeering, introduced legislation based on...
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RICO - The Rejection of an Economic Motive Requirement, in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology » Read Now
by Jennifer G. Randolph. 33 pgs.

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...Organizations Act (RICO), which outlaws certain racketeering activity by or in relation to an enterprise...require that the enterprise or the racketeering activity be...
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Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States: From Capone's Chicago to the New Urban Underworld ("Racketeering" begins on p. 253) » Read Now
by Robert J. Kelly. 364 pgs.

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Typically, other reference works on organized crime in the United States focus primarily on the Mafia and La Cosa Nostra, and neglect the many new ethnic and racial criminal organizations that permeate American society today. This reference fills those gaps while providing systematic detailed...
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Typically, other reference works on organized crime in the United States focus primarily on the Mafia and La Cosa Nostra, and neglect the many new ethnic and racial criminal organizations that permeate American society today. This reference fills those gaps while providing systematic detailed coverage of traditional crime families, individuals, significant events, and terms. More than 250 entries provide in-depth information on major underworld figures, from Al Capone to John Gotti and Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, and key criminal events and milestones. In addition, Kelly, an expert on organized crime, provides in-depth coverage of African American organized crime, Chinese Triads and Tongs, the Colombian drug cartels' infiltration of the U.S., Dominican drug trafficking, ecocrime, Russian organized crime, Latin gangs and criminal groups, and Vietnamese American organized crime.
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