Organized Crime in Chicago by Robert M. Lombardo PAPERBACK 9780252078781

Organized Crime in ChicagoBeyond the Mafia\nAuthor(s): Robert M. Lombardo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252078781, 978-0252078781\nSynopsis\nThis 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 [url] beyond this Mafia paradigm, this volume argues that the .