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100	1		_aLombardo, Robert M. _eauthor
245	1	0	_aOrganized Crime in Chicago : _bBeyond the Mafia / _cRobert M. Lombardo.
264		1	_aBaltimore : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c2012.
264		4	_c©2013.
300			_a1 online resource (290 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 1. Explaining Organized Crime -- 2. The Gem of the Prairie -- 3. The Black Mafia -- 4. The Syndicate -- 5. The Forty-two Gang -- 6. The Outfit -- 7. The Outfit as a Complex Organization -- 8. Street Crew Neighborhoods -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
520			_aThis book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago and other large American cities, Robert M. Lombardo challenges the dominant belief that organized crime in America descended directly from the Sicilian Mafia. According to this widespread "alien conspiracy" theory, organized crime evolved in a linear fashion beginning with the Mafia in Sicily, emerging in the form of the Black Hand in America's immigrant colonies, and culminating in the development of the Cosa Nostra in America's urban centers. Looking beyond this Mafia paradigm, this volume argues that the development of organized crime in Chicago and other large American cities was rooted in the social structure of American society. Specifically, Lombardo ties organized crime to the emergence of machine politics in America's urban centers. From nineteenth-century vice syndicates to the modern-day Outfit, Chicago's criminal underworld could not have existed without the blessing of those who controlled municipal, county, and state government. These practices were not imported from Sicily, Lombardo contends, but were bred in the socially disorganized slums of America where elected officials routinely franchised vice and crime in exchange for money and votes. This book also traces the history of the African-American community's participation in traditional organized crime in Chicago and offers new perspectives on the organizational structure of the Chicago Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aOrganized crime - Illinois - Chicago.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aLombardo, Robert M. _tOrganized Crime in Chicago _dBaltimore : University of Illinois Press,c2012 _z9780252037306
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
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