Organized Crime

by Abadinsky,Howard

• ISBN13: 9780495092131
• ISBN10: 0495092134
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-02
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Abadinsky provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of the origins, history, theoretical explanations, and structure of domestic and international organized crime, including drug trafficking, gambling, and loan sharking. The author also explains the methods employed by law enforcement agencies to combat organized crime, and the policy decisions reached by various investigating committees and commissions, including the President's Commission on Organized Crime.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiv
About the Author	p. xviii
Introduction to Organized Crime	p. 1
The Definition and Structure of Organized Crime	p. 1
Defining Organized Crime	p. 2
The Structure of Organized Crime	p. 6
The Bureaucratic/Corporate Model	p. 6
Patrimonial/Patron-Client Networks	p. 6
Summary	p. 12
Internet Connections	p. 12
Review Questions	p. 13
Explaining Organized Crime	p. 14
The Strain of Anomie	p. 14
Differential Association	p. 16
Subcultures and Social Disorganization	p. 16
Differential Opportunity	p. 21
Social Control Theory	p. 22
Ethnic Succession	p. 23
Zips	p. 31
Summary	p. 33
Internet Connections	p. 34
Review Questions	p. 34
History of Organized Crime	p. 35
The Robber Barons	p. 35
John Jacob Astor	p. 35
Cornelius Vanderbilt	p. 36
The Erie Ring	p. 37
Daniel Drew	p. 37
James Fisk	p. 38
Jay Gould	p. 38
Russell Sage	p. 40
Leland Stanford	p. 40
John D. Rockefeller	p. 41
Immigration and Urban Machine Politics	p. 43
The Irish	p. 43
The Saloon and the Machine	p. 45
Underworld and Upperworld	p. 48
Reform and Nativism	p. 51
Prohibition	p. 52
Organized Crime	p. 54
Organized Crime in New York	p. 56
Tammany Hall	p. 56
Jewish Organized Crime in New York	p. 59
Arnold Rothstein	p. 60
Dutch Schultz	p. 61
Lepke Buchalter	p. 63
Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Siegel	p. 65
Interethnic Cooperation: Murder, Inc.	p. 67
Summary	p. 68
Internet Connections	p. 68
Review Questions	p. 68
The American Mafia	p. 70
New York	p. 70
Castellammarese War	p. 72
Luciano/Genovese Family	p. 73
Mineo/Gambino Family	p. 76
Reina/Lucchese Family	p. 78
Profaci/Colombo Family	p. 79
Bonanno Family	p. 83
The Five Families	p. 85
Chicago	p. 85
Mike McDonald	p. 86
"Hinky Dink" and "The Bath"	p. 86
"Big Bill" Thompson	p. 87
Mont Tennes	p. 88
From Colosimo to Torrio to Capone	p. 88
Prohibition	p. 89
The Torrio-Capone Organization	p. 90
The Chicago Wars	p. 91
Al Capone's Chicago	p. 93
The Outfit Emerges	p. 94
Sam Giancana	p. 96
Outfit Street Crews	p. 98
Taylor Street Crew	p. 98
Grand Avenue Crew	p. 101
26th Street Crew	p. 102
North Side Crew	p. 103
The Outfit Today	p. 105
Structure of the American Mafia: The New York Version	p. 105
Membership	p. 105
Crews	p. 109
The Boss	p. 110
The Commission	p. 112
Rules	p. 113
Analysis of the Structure	p. 113
The Structure of the American Mafia: The Chicago Version	p. 114
Outfit Membership	p. 116
Summary	p. 117
Internet Connections	p. 117
Review Questions	p. 118
Transnational Organized Crime	p. 119
Globalization of Organized Crime	p. 119
Italian Organized Crime	p. 121
The Mezzogiorno	p. 121
The Sicilian Mafia	p. 122
Mussolini and the Mafia	p. 125
Nuovo Mafia/Cosa Nostra	p. 127
Politics and the Mafia	p. 129
The Decline of the Mafia	p. 131
The Structure of the Mafia	p. 132
The Neapolitan Camorra	p. 134
The 'Ndrangheta	p. 138
Sacra Corona Unita and the Albanian Connection	p. 140
Summary	p. 141
Internet Connections	p. 142
Review Questions	p. 142
Latino Organized Crime	p. 143
Colombia	p. 143
The Cuban-Colombian Connection	p. 145
Colombian Drug Trafficking	p. 146
The Politics of Dope	p. 147
Colombian Drug Trafficking Organizations	p. 148
Medellin	p. 150
Cali Cartel	p. 154
Evolution of the Colombian Drug Business	p. 156
Mexico	p. 156
Mexican Drug Trafficking	p. 158
Amezcuas (Colima) Cartel	p. 161
Herrera Family	p. 162
Sinaloa Cartel	p. 163
Gulf Cartel	p. 165
Tijuana Cartel	p. 166
Juarez Cartel	p. 167
Sonora Cartel	p. 168
Dominicans	p. 169
The Mexican Mafia	p. 171
Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13 or Los Mara)	p. 172
Summary	p. 173
Internet Connections	p. 174
Review Questions	p. 174
Russian Organized Crime	p. 175
The Roots of Russian Organized Crime	p. 175
The Vory	p. 178
The Russian Mafiya	p. 180
Chechens	p. 184
Russian Organized Crime in the United States	p. 185
Summary	p. 190
Internet Connections	p. 191
Review Questions	p. 191
Asian Organized Crime	p. 192
Yakuza	p. 192
Yakuza Business	p. 196
Triads, Tongs, and Asian Gangs	p. 198
Triads	p. 198
Tongs	p. 203
Asian Gangs	p. 205
Summary	p. 208
Internet Connections	p. 209
Review Questions	p. 209
Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs	p. 210
Hell's Angels Emerge	p. 211
The "Big Four"	p. 214
Canada: A Special Case	p. 216
Structure	p. 217
Outlaw Business	p. 224
Analysis of the Structure	p. 226
Aryan Brotherhood	p. 227
Summary	p. 227
Internet Connections	p. 228
Review Questions	p. 228
African American and Black Organized Crime	p. 229
Frank Lucas	p. 230
Gangster Disciples	p. 231
El Rukns/Black P. Stone Nation	p. 233
Other Domestic African American Criminal Organizations	p. 234
Black Organized Crime: Nigerians	p. 236
Jamaican Organized Crime	p. 239
Summary	p. 242
Internet Connections	p. 242
Review Questions	p. 242
The Business of Organized Crime	p. 243
Gambling, Loansharking, Theft, Fencing, Sex, and Trafficking in Persons	p. 243
Goods and Services or Extortion?	p. 243
Gambling	p. 247
Bookmaking	p. 248
Casino Gambling and Related Activities	p. 256
Miscellaneous Gambling	p. 258
Loansharking (Usury)	p. 259
Theft and Fencing	p. 262
Stolen Securities	p. 262
Fencing	p. 262
The Business of Sex	p. 263
Trafficking in Persons	p. 265
Summary	p. 266
Internet Connections	p. 267
Review Questions	p. 267
The Drug Business	p. 268
Historical Background	p. 268
China and the Opium Wars	p. 269
The "Chinese Problem" and the American Response	p. 271
The Harrison Act	p. 272
The Business of Heroin	p. 274
The Golden Triangle	p. 275
The Golden Crescent	p. 280
Mexico	p. 283
Colombia	p. 284
Cocaine	p. 284
The Business of Cocaine	p. 285
Distribution	p. 287
Methamphetamine	p. 289
Cannabis/Marijuana	p. 290
Barbiturates	p. 292
Methaqualone	p. 292
Phenyclidine (PCP)	p. 292
Ecstasy	p. 293
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)	p. 294
Analogs and Designer Drugs	p. 295
Summary	p. 295
Internet Connections	p. 296
Review Questions	p. 296
Labor, Business, and Money Laundering	p. 297
Organized Labor in America	p. 298
Labor Racketeering: In the Beginning...	p. 298
An Example: The Fulton Fish Market	p. 299
Labor Racketeering and the "Big Four"	p. 300
Laborers' International Union	p. 301
Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HEREIU)	p. 302
International Longshoremen's Association (ILA)	p. 304
International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)	p. 307
Hoffa versus Kennedy	p. 311
Business Racketeering	p. 315
The Garment Center	p. 315
Restraint of Trade	p. 316
Construction Industry	p. 317
Private Solid Waste Carting	p. 320
Criminals in a Legitimate Business	p. 322
The Scam	p. 323
Stock Fraud	p. 324
Money Laundering	p. 325
Private Banking	p. 329
Summary	p. 331
Internet Connections	p. 332
Review Questions	p. 332
Fighting Organized Crime	p. 333
Organized Crime Committees, Commissions, and Statutes	p. 333
The Kefauver Crime Committee	p. 333
The McClellan Committee	p. 335
Joseph Valachi	p. 335
President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice	p. 336
President's Commission on Organized Crime (PCOC)	p. 337
Statutes	p. 338
Internal Revenue Code	p. 338
Controlled Substances Statutes	p. 339
The Hobbs Act	p. 341
Conspiracy	p. 341
RICO	p. 343
Continuing Criminal Enterprise	p. 347
Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA)	p. 347
Forfeiture	p. 348
Money Laundering	p. 352
"Trafficking in Persons" Statutes	p. 354
Summary	p. 355
Internet Connections	p. 356
Review Questions	p. 356
Organized Crime Law Enforcement	p. 358
Constitutional Restraints	p. 358
Jurisdictional Limitations	p. 359
Corruption	p. 360
Informants	p. 361
Boston	p. 363
Law Enforcement Agencies	p. 365
Department of Justice (DOJ)	p. 366
Department of the Treasury-Internal Revenue Service (IRS)	p. 371
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)	p. 371
Department of Labor	p. 373
Department of Defense (DOD)	p. 373
Other Federal Enforcement Agencies	p. 376
Interpol	p. 376
Investigative Tools in Organized Crime Law Enforcement	p. 377
Intelligence	p. 377
Electronic Surveillance	p. 379
Grand Jury	p. 385
Immunity	p. 386
Summary	p. 388
Internet Connections	p. 388
Review Questions	p. 389
Conclusion	p. 390
Terrorism and Organized Crime	p. 392
References	p. 398
Author Index	p. 442
Subject Index	p. 450
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