The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity and the American Dream

ISBN-13: 9780765809940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str.

James M. O'Kane

Opis

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 crime as one vehicle of upward mobility, advancing from lower-class status to middle-class power and respectability.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

James M. O'Kane