5666599
9780195020106
Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States
by Nelli, Humbert S.
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- ISBN-13: 9780195020106
- ISBN: 0195020103
- Publication Date: 1976
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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"Dr. Nelli . . . describes the kinds of crime that prevailed in Italian immigrant enclaves in America; like most American crime, then as now, Italian crime was one aspect of the so-called culture of urban poverty-boys graduated from street gangs to criminal gangs. None of these gangs were very big until Prohibition brought the Great Leap Forward, to a level that Dr. Nelli calls 'entrepreneurial crime.' His fine account makes sense of many murderous incidents, differentiates among places, and sketches individuals and the talents (Torrio's brains, Capone's brutality) that enabled them to rise in the underworld."-New Yorker "A definitive history of organized crime in America."-American Historical ReviewNelli, Humbert S. is the author of 'Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States', published 1976 under ISBN 9780195020106 and ISBN 0195020103.
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