@article{456291,
      recid = {456291},
      author = {Lombardo, Robert M.},
      title = {Organized crime in Chicago beyond the Mafia / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Illinois Press,},
      address = {Urbana :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 257 p.) :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {Lombardo provides a comprehensive sociological explanation  for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in  Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that  afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other  vice activity in Chicago, he challenges the dominant belief  that organized crime in America descends directly from the  Sicilian Mafia.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/456291},
}