Organized Crime and American Power
A History, Second Edition
Seiten
2024
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2nd edition
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4346-4 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4346-4 (ISBN)
This book presents a comprehensive history of organized crime in the United States – and how it has been a significant part of the nation’s development, rather than an external threat to its political, economic, and social structures.
Popular histories of organized crime in the United States often look to the Mafia and the sons of early twentieth-century immigrants – such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky – for their origins. In this second edition of Organized Crime and American Power, Michael Woodiwiss refocuses on US organized crime as an American problem.
The book starts in 1789, with the birth of a new nation, intended to be run according to laws and conventions, with a written commitment to civil rights. Woodiwiss examines the organization of crime before the Civil War, which damaged or destroyed the lives of those excluded from constitutional protections: Indigenous peoples, Black people, and women. The book focuses on white supremacist crime and the pernicious influence of Southern leaders in alliance with opportunistic politicians. It examines the organized crimes of powerful business interests in alliance with politicians, as well as the corrupt consequences of the US moralistic campaigns against alcohol, gambling, drugs, and abortion.
Organized Crime and American Power brings solid historical evidence and analysis to the task of refuting conventional wisdom that frames organized crime as something external to US political, economic, and social systems.
Popular histories of organized crime in the United States often look to the Mafia and the sons of early twentieth-century immigrants – such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky – for their origins. In this second edition of Organized Crime and American Power, Michael Woodiwiss refocuses on US organized crime as an American problem.
The book starts in 1789, with the birth of a new nation, intended to be run according to laws and conventions, with a written commitment to civil rights. Woodiwiss examines the organization of crime before the Civil War, which damaged or destroyed the lives of those excluded from constitutional protections: Indigenous peoples, Black people, and women. The book focuses on white supremacist crime and the pernicious influence of Southern leaders in alliance with opportunistic politicians. It examines the organized crimes of powerful business interests in alliance with politicians, as well as the corrupt consequences of the US moralistic campaigns against alcohol, gambling, drugs, and abortion.
Organized Crime and American Power brings solid historical evidence and analysis to the task of refuting conventional wisdom that frames organized crime as something external to US political, economic, and social systems.
Michael Woodiwiss teaches at the University of the West of England and was named a Distinguished Scholar by the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime in 2019.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Organized Crime and the Rise of American Power, 1789–1900
2. Whitewash: Supremacist Crime in the South and Its Loss from the “Organized Crime” Narratives
3. Organized Crime and Business Power, 1865 to the Present
4. America’s Moral Crusade and the Organization of Illegal Markets, 1789 to the Present
5. The Dumbing of Organized Crime Discourse, 1835 to the Present
6. White Supremacy to Mass Gang Production: The Political Organization of Crime in America
7. American Power and the Dumbing of Global Discourse, 1945 to the Present
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.02.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 640 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4346-8 / 1487543468 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4346-4 / 9781487543464 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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