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Organized crime in Chicago [electronic resource] : beyond the Mafia / Robert M. Lombardo.

Lombardo, Robert M.
2013
HV6795.C4 L58 2013eb
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Title
Organized crime in Chicago [electronic resource] : beyond the Mafia / Robert M. Lombardo.
Author
Lombardo, Robert M.
ISBN
9780252094484 (electronic bk.)
9780252037306
9780252078781 (pbk.)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 257 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
HV6795.C4 L58 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.10609773/11
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Organized crime in Chicago.
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Preface
Introduction
Explaining organized crime
The gem of the prairie
The black Mafia
The syndicate
The Forty-two Gang
The outfit
The outfit as a complex organization
Street crew neighborhoods
Conclusion
Notes
Index.

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