1st Edition
The Crooked Ladder Gangsters, Ethnicity and the American Dream
By James M. O'Kane
Copyright 1992
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians, and dismissed as a subject not to be taken too seriously by those researching the mobility patterns of their own ethnic ancestors or current minority newcomers. The Crooked Ladder represents a groundbreaking attempt to describe how some members of ethnic minorities have utilized organized... Read more
Introduction; 1: Newcomers vs. the Established Society; 2: The Climb from the Bottom; 3: Ethnic Organized Crime; 4: The Decline of the Italians and the Rise of the New Ethnic Criminals; 5: Individual and Group Mobility in Crime; 6: The Future of Ethnic Organized Crime
Biography
James M. O'Kane
