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: 20. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780761860617
• ISBN-10: 0761860614
• Artikelnr.: 38138306

Autorenporträt

Mark H. Haller had been a historian of illegal enterprise-more commonly known as organized crime-in urban America. He is the author of an introduction to the now classic work by John Landesco in Organized Crime in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 1968). Haller passed away in 2012.

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