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Representing over four decades of work, this monograph by historian Mark H. Haller includes his work on organized crime in Chicago. This book incorporates Haller's critique of the Mafia model of organized crime and his elaboration of the illegal enterprise model of gangsters and their role in the American subeconomy.
List of contents
Part I: Chicago
Chapter 1: Illinois Association for Criminal Justice
Chapter 2: John Landesco and the Illinois Crime Survey (1929)
Chapter 3: Organized Crime in Urban Society: Chicago in the Twentieth Century (1971)
Chapter 4: Biographical Sketches: Al Capone, Jack Guzik, Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky and Max Hoff; Definition of Organized Crime
Part II : Philadelphia
Chapter 5: Philadelphia Bootlegging and the Report of the Special August Grand Jury (1985)
Chapter 6: The Bruno Family of Philadelphia: Organized Crime as a Regulatory Agency (1994)
Chapter 7: Loansharking in Philadelphia: Social Control in an Illegal Enterprise (1992)
Part III - Illegal Enterprise Theory
Chapter 8: The Changing Structure of American Gambling in the Twentieth Century (1979)
Chapter 9: Loansharking in American Cities: Historical Analysis of a Marginal Enterprise (1977)
Chapter 10: Bootleggers as Businessmen: From City Slums to City Builders (1985)
Chapter 11: Illegal Enterprise: A Theoretical and Historical Interpretation (1990)
Subject Index
About the author
For almost fifty years, Mark H. Haller had been a historian of illegal enterprise-more commonly known as organized crime-in urban America. He is the author of an introduction to the now classic work by John Landesco in Organized Crime in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 1968). Haller passed away in 2012.
Matthew G. Yeager obtained his bachelor's degree in criminology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972. He was introduced to the work of Mark H. Haller and John Landesco during this time. His master's degree is from the State University of New York at Albany (1975), and his doctorate in sociology is from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (2006). He has published over thirty articles and studies in theoretical and applied criminology and is a practicing clinical criminologist in sentencing alternatives. He is currently associate professor in the Department of Sociology at King's University College, part of Western University-Canada. He lives in London, Ontario.
Summary
Representing over four decades of work, this monograph by historian Mark H. Haller includes his work on organized crime in Chicago. This book incorporates Haller’s critique of the Mafia model of organized crime and his elaboration of the illegal enterprise model of gangsters and their role in the American subeconomy.
