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	organized crime - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		The era of the 1920s had taught organized crime leaders the value of strong political connections and the disadvantages of internecine warfare, but it was not until the 1930s that Lucky Luciano (with Mafia connections) and Louis Lepke Buchalter created a tight interstate criminal organization called the Syndicate.
		Competition and confusion in the discourse on organized crime in Russia.
		Crime Congress Secretary-General appeals for quick approval of Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; UN Vienna meeting opens high-level segment.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-orgcrim.html (985 words)

	Organized Crime - The Status before Prohibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Organized crime has existed in Chicago for over a century, and actually originated well before 1919 - the year Prohibition was ratified as the 18th Constitutional Amendment.
		This aspect of organized crime (prostitution) was also heavily dependent on affiliations and alliances between the gangster, politician, and police officer.
		Capone was not as favorable of vice as Colosimo and Torrio, so when he took over the position of gang leader, he focused on other aspects of organized crime such as gambling bootlegging, and labor racketeering operations.
	www.umich.edu /~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/organizedcrime1.html (1299 words)

	Organized Crime
		Organized crime is an illegal activity for profit through illegitimate businesses.
		The coast-to-coast syndicate that ruled crime for most of the 20th century was an overarching, ruthless, and extremely deadly corporation.
		Vehicle Crime -- Illicit trafficking of vehicles is a form of organized crime which generates large profits for the perpetrators (estimated at 19 Billion USD which disappears into a parallel economy) and a feeling of insecurity that affects the public particularly due to the increased used of violence.
	www.karisable.com /crmob.htm (6253 words)

	The Impact of Transnational Organized Crime
		Due to the intrinsic chain of command that major organized crime group structures are made of, it is difficult to infiltrate within the groups and ascertain whether or not law enforcements have actually captured the kingpin of the operation.
		Just as liquor had been the source of income for early organized crime groups during the Prohibition, one of the largest threats to the social structure of all countries is that of international drug trafficking.
		In reflection of the past history of organized crime and their activities, the world still faces the growing rise of transnational organizations that pose a threat to society.
	www.anairhoads.org /calderon/impactorg.shtml (2686 words)

	Major Issues Relating to Organized Crime : within the Context of Economic Relationships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The notion of American organized crime ‘seeping’ into Canada was compounded by the parallel the RCMP Commissioner drew between the "stepped-up activities against the gangsters in the United states" as compared to what was seen to be an absence of powers for Canadian law enforcement.
		The ‘threat’ of organized crime was thereby established and a consensus among the police departments confirmed the seriousness of the enemy.
		Underneath the emergence of modern organized crime, however it is defined, is the intrusion of the state into the role of regulatory of individual life-styles, the banning of specific activities that involve strictly free choice by individuals.
	www.ncjrs.gov /nathanson/organized.html (19141 words)

	Organized Crime - How it Was Changed by Prohibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Through the criminal experience gained and the political connections established in gambling and prostitution rackets in the early 1900s, gangsters had become well prepared for the exploitation of Prohibition, which was ratified as the 18th Constitutional Amendment in 1919.
		This was mostly due to Al Capone's arrival to Chicago in 1920, when he inherited the leadership of Torrio's gang.
		These massive profits, which enabled the payoff of even the highest state governmental officials, revolutionized organized crime with respect to the number of individuals involved, the level of complexity of political alliances, and intertwinement with normal, everyday life.
	www.umich.edu /~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/organizedcrime2.html (1669 words)

	1920 in organized crime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: 1919 in organized crime, other events of 1920, 1921 in organized crime and the list of 'years in organized crime'.
		Although suspected by authorities to have involved the Torrio-Capone organization, Chicago labor union racketeer James Vinci is eventually convicted of his murder.
		April 15 - The Slater and Morrill Shoe Company is robbed of $15,776 as a paymaster and guard are killed, supposedly by the Morelli Gang, however Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted of the robbery and are later executed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1920_in_organized_crime (268 words)

	Mezzanotte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Organized crime is defined as any group of people who have deliberately conspired to participate in and perpetuate illegal activity with the principle aim of amassing substantial profit as quickly as possible.
		Organized criminals and their activities, including gambling and extortion, had been operating though the inner city gangs since the turn of the century.
		Organized crime groups that could run the bootlegging operation as a business dominated the task of supplying alcohol to the masses.
	www.mc.cc.md.us /Departments/hpolscrv/mezzanotte.htm (246 words)

	Criminal Justice Resources Resources: Organized Crime
		Examines the scope of Asian organized crime and terrorist activity in Canada and the extent of cooperation and possible overlap between criminal and terrorist activity in that country.
		Organized crime, in the U.S. and around the world, is a critical concern of the law enforcement community.
		Crime cartels are focusing on a greater diversity of commodities.
	www.lib.msu.edu /harris23/crimjust/orgcrime.htm (6915 words)

	Organized Crime in the 1920's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		"Organized crime is a continuing criminal enterprise that rationally works to profit from illicit activities that are in great public demand.
		Some scholars argue that organized crime never existed in America, or if it existed, it was imported from immigrants, which flooded America in the beginning of this century.
		In America, Organized Crime was in its climax of flourishing after Prohibition of Liquor, though some might argue that "Mafia" flourished during Al Capone's era.
	campus.udayton.edu /~102-14-2/BrianWitt.htm (1197 words)

	Amazon.com: Organized Crime and American Power: A History: Books: Michael Woodiwiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Organized crime, understood in a literal sense as systematic illegal activity for money or power, is as old as the first systems of law and government and as international as trade.
		In Organized Crime and American Power: A History, Michael Woodiwiss argues that organized criminal activity has never been a serious threat to established economic and political power structures in the United States but more often a fluid, variable, and open-ended phenomenon that has, in fact, complemented those structures.
		This book reveals that more than ethnic based 'imported'' criminal organizations, what has passed off for organized crime or 'mafia' in The United States is a phenomenon, which was related to and often encouraged, directly and indirectly, by the very government form exploitation of natives, Africans and working peoples in general.
	www.amazon.com /Organized-Crime-American-Power-History/dp/0802047009 (1253 words)

	Organized Crime
		As his profits from loan sharking and auto insurance fraud were piling up in Las Vegas, crime families in Los Angeles and Buffalo asserted their claim.
		was a little-known partner of organized crime heavyweights such as Frank Costello and Arnold Rothstein.
		Allan May illuminates Kastel in a way that gives you a feel for the ever-changing face of organized crime.
	crimemagazine.com /organized.htm (3248 words)

	Gangsters: Organized Crime review for the PC
		At first glance, Gangsters: Organized Crime appears to be a real-time strategy game, but don't let that fool you.
		For people who majored in Economics or Micro-Management in their college days, Gangsters: Organized Crime is a dream come true.
		Gangsters: Organized Crime does a good job of simulating the life of a mob boss, but it could have sacrificed reality to make it a little more fun.
	www.gamerevolution.com /review/pc/gangsters_organized_crime (688 words)

	Harlem gangs from the 1920s and 1930s - The Crime library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		A few loosely run fl crime factions did exist and primarily concentrated on policy and lottery gambling, prostitution and drugs.
		A look at crime in prison, deep in the cell blocks of the Massachusetts Walpole Penitentiary.
		Through an unusual physics experiment, police determine whether a woman was hunted or a victim of a hunting accident.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/gang/harlem_gangs/index.html (1041 words)

	Mafia Chronology - Section III (1920-31)
		The organization quickly expands into Boston, Cleveland and Florida, providing a steady stream of quality liquor, a minimum of violence and a maximum of profits.
		Public is outraged at the number of underworld characters (including Terranova, who, according to some accounts, hosted the event) at the dinner and at Vitale's connections to organized crime.
		Eventually, the press decides to accept a ludicrous explanation from the police that the holdup was staged by Terranova in order to rob one of his guests of incriminating evidence relating to the Uale murder.
	www.onewal.com /maf-chr3.html (3705 words)

	Italian Organized Crime Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Some were installed in positions of power, and thus began to interweave politics and organized crime in Italy.
		The most spectacular crimes attributed to him were the 1992 murders of magistrate Giovanni Falcone (along with his wife and bodyguards), and Falcone's colleague Paolo Borsellino (and 5 of his bodyguards).
		Members of these Calabrian crime groups emigrated to Canada and the United States, and were discovered running a "fl hand" intimidation scheme in Pennsylvania mining towns in 1906.
	www.alternatives.com /crime/italmaf.html (1241 words)

	Al Capone, the Brutal Chicago Gangster and the Capone Family - The Crime library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		One of the most common fictions is that like many gangsters of that era, he was born in Italy.
		This amazing crime czar was strictly domestic -- taking the feudal Italian criminal society and fashioning it into a modern American criminal enterprise.
		Her fourth son and the first to be born and conceived in the New World was born January 17, 1899.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/index_1.html (803 words)

	Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - The Organized Crime and Mafia Super Site
		Please note that Rick Porrello is NOT a national or international organized crime or Mafia expert or historian.
		He does not maintain contacts with mobsters, is unable to assist with family history research and is unable to provide assitance with locating photographs.
		If you believe you are the victim of organized crime, some of the agencies that may be able to help you are local law enforcement agency, state attorney general's office, the F.B.I. or U.S. Attorney's office.
	www.americanmafia.com (463 words)

	Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
		One of Alioto’s relatives was the boss of the Milwaukee Crime Family from 1953 to 1962.
		Although most women are safe from the atrocities of organized crime, the deaths of Christina Colletti and Janice Drake prove that the mob will not hesitate to kill anyone who gets in their way.
		Despite his long involvement with organized crime his only prison time was a sixty-day sentence for jumping into the ring and assaulting a boxing referee.
	www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_past_issues.html (3829 words)

	Getting Chummy With the Bad Boys \| The Jewish Exponent
		For many, thinking about organized crime will conjure up images of Italian mobsters like Al Capone or the fictional Michael Corleone from the three "Godfather" movies.
		When prohibition was introduced in 1920, it gave organized crime a whole new market.
		But the lecturer said a new chapter is emerging in the history of Jewish organized crime.
	www.jewishexponent.com /article/2085 (738 words)

	Al Capone \| Free Term Papers, Essays, Book Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Also, organized crime came to a rise in the 1920’s.
		And in the high ranks of organized crime was Al Capone.
		There were many gangs in the world of organized crime and Al Capone’s was at the top.
	www.oppapers.com /read.php?id=25985 (205 words)

	Gremlin Productions, Home of Radio Free Cannabis
		Did the government not learn the lessons of Prohibition in the US during the 1920's, when organized crime was borne & life became very dangerous for the general public.
		And now there is this big thing that organized crime is responsible for the majority of the drug crime within
		Make it "Free" and you eliminate the need for organized crime and the grief that goes along with it.
	www.gremlinproductions.ca (2257 words)

	CRIME & PUNISHMENT IN CANADA MAIN PAGE
		PIONEER POLICING AND JUSTICE IN CRIME and PUNISHMENT IN UPPER CANADA 1790 - 1834
		PART 4 1870 - 1920: The Constables as Urban Missionaries
		THE RISE OF ORGANIZED CRIME: 1920 - 1930
	www.russianbooks.org /crime/cp0.htm (157 words)

	Gangsters Organized Crime discount software
		Incorporating elements of both real-time and turn-based strategy games, Gangsters: Organized Crime brings a new era of gaming to the strategy enthusiast.
		Set in a fictitious Chicago-style city during the 1920's prohibition era, you play a mob boss whose goal is to build an empire that controls the rival gangs and sends your enemies home in pine overcoats.
		Recruit from a pool of 400 gangsters for your organization, each with unique skills and assets
	www.planetcdrom.com /discount-software/Gangsters-Organized-Crime (315 words)

	GameStats: Gangsters: Organized Crime
		Wanna be a gangster in a Chicago style city of the 1920's?
		Wanna control an underground organization dealing in extortion, illegal liquor, prostitution, violence, intimidation, gambling, gang warfare, bribery of officials, permanent elimination of individuals and a host of moneymaking activities?
		Can you simultaneously maintain a decent and honest reputation on the surface by supporting good causes, helping the police and running legitimate businesses?
	www.gamestats.com /objects/010/010459 (242 words)

	IGN: Gangsters: Organized Crime
		A gripping new strategy offering mildly hampered by its own complexity.
		Find out what other IGN readers have to say about Gangsters: Organized Crime.
		Guns, booze and broken knuckles--in Gangsters, it's up to you to build a better Mafia.
	pc.ign.com /objects/010/010459.html (327 words)

	organized crime: The Prohibition Era
		The efforts of federal officials to enforce the unpopular Volstead Act (see
		) of 1920 generated the growth of highly organized bootlegging rings with nationwide and international contacts.
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	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0860165.html (183 words)

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