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Book Crime   Hollywood Incorporated

    Book Details:
  • Author : Françoise Clary
  • Publisher : Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9782877756501
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Crime Hollywood Incorporated written by Françoise Clary and published by Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’ouvrage rassemble des communications bilingues (anglais-français) issues du colloque tenu à l’université de Rouen sur la représentation filmique de la criminalité aux États-Unis de 1929 à 1951. Les liens d’Hollywood avec le crime organisé (mafia urbaine, grand banditisme …) posent diverses questions : l’héroïsation hollywoodienne du gangster, devenu le vecteur d’un nouveau système de valeurs, ne tend-elle pas à apparenter la transgression à un jeu ? L’esthétique de la violence n’accroît-elle pas la fascination des jeunes pour toute déviance, légitimant la mort virtuelle-réelle comme unique solution en cas de conflit ? Les studios hollywoodiens fondent-ils leur puissance et leur légitimité sur la diffusion de valeurs illicites ? Le recueil montre tout d’abord que la diffusion de ces nouveaux comportements répond à des choix économiques ; puis il aborde les rapports entre idéologie et société, traite ensuite de la censure et enfin réexamine l’esthétique de la violence.

Book Crime Incorporated Or Under the Clock

Download or read book Crime Incorporated Or Under the Clock written by William Balsamo and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional exploits like the Godfather pale in comparison.--United Press International

Book Murder Inc

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Williams
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2014-11-06
  • ISBN : 1844883485
  • Pages : 493 pages

Download or read book Murder Inc written by Paul Williams and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder Inc. is the latest blockbuster by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams. Murder Inc. is the definitive account of how organized crime exploded in Limerick from the 1990s and in the noughties. It describes the depravity and decadence of the gangs, their deadly rivaliries, and their reigns of terror over the community in which they lived. Finally, Williams traces the faultlines that eventually led to the implosion of the gangs and their defeat. Drawing on his vast inside knowledge of the criminal underworld, an unparalleled range of contacts and eye witness interviews, Paul Williams provides a chilling insight into the mobsters and events that corroded entire neighbourhoods and devastated countless lives.

Book Crime  Incorporated

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Mooney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1935
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Crime Incorporated written by Martin Mooney and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crime Incorporated

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  • Author : William Balsamo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780863696473
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Crime Incorporated written by William Balsamo and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 years ago, control of New York's waterfronts was seized by a bunch of Italian immigrants, the Black Hand. Today that group is called the Mafia. This book is a history of the Mob's bloody century of crime. The authors trace the Mafia's savage rise and investigate its most notorious leaders - Capone, Lucky Luciano and Thomas Luchese. They go behind the headlines of Rudolph Giuliani's pursuit of the Mob, the famous Pizza connection and Commission trials to reveal the Mafia's control over American daily life.

Book Murder  Inc

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  • Author : Sid Feder
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-06-08
  • ISBN : 9780996285537
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Murder Inc written by Sid Feder and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder Inc. by former Brooklyn D.A. Burton B. Turkus and veteran A.P. war correspondent Sid Feder is the riveting true crime classic that rips the lid off the national crime Syndicate's "killing machine" that took 1,000 lives nationwide during the 1930's and 40's. In a page-turning non-fiction account that reads like a crime thriller, Turkus and Feder take us behind the scenes with the untold story of how Sicilian gangsters Lucky Luciano, Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis partnered with Jewish gangsters Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Louis "Lepke" Buchalter to create a multi-million rackets enterprise that included, gambling, prostitution, union corruption and the lucrative murder-for-hire scheme that operated out of the back of a Brooklyn Candy Store. After he was able to turn, Murder Inc.'s chief killer, Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, Turkus eventually sent Lepke and six other mobsters to the electric chair. This 1951 best seller by Turkus & Feder which has sold more than a million copies worldwide is now available in a new updated edition complete with mug shots and bios of the original gangsters who spilled so much blood from coast to coast. With a new Foreword by five-time Emmy winning former ABC News correspondent and investigative reporter Peter Lance, this edition of Murder Inc. will introduce a new generation of true-crime readers to the most lethal underworld enterprise ever exposed.

Book Crime Analysis with Crime Mapping

Download or read book Crime Analysis with Crime Mapping written by Rachel Boba Santos and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime Analysis With Crime Mapping, Fourth Edition provides students and practitioners with a solid foundation for understanding the conceptual nature and practice of crime analysis to assist police in preventing and reducing crime and disorder. Author Rachel Boba Santos offers an in-depth description of this emerging field, as well as guidelines and techniques for conducting crime analysis supported by evidence-based research, real world application, and recent innovations in the field. As the only introductory core text for crime analysis, this must-have resource presents readers with opportunities to apply theory, research methods, and statistics to careers that support and enhance the effectiveness of modern policing.

Book Los Zetas Inc

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  • Author : Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2017-08-15
  • ISBN : 1477312773
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Los Zetas Inc written by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government’s response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent passage of energy reform. Los Zetas Inc. asserts that these phenomena are a direct and intended result of the emergence of the brutal Zetas criminal organization in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. Going beyond previous studies of the group as a drug trafficking organization, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera builds a convincing case that the Zetas and similar organizations effectively constitute transnational corporations with business practices that include the trafficking of crude oil, natural gas, and gasoline; migrant and weapons smuggling; kidnapping for ransom; and video and music piracy. Combining vivid interview commentary with in-depth analysis of organized crime as a transnational and corporate phenomenon, Los Zetas Inc. proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the emerging face, new structure, and economic implications of organized crime in Mexico. Correa-Cabrera delineates the Zetas establishment, structure, and forms of operation, along with the reactions to this new model of criminality by the state and other lawbreaking, foreign, and corporate actors. Since the Zetas share some characteristics with legal transnational businesses that operate in the energy and private security industries, she also compares this criminal corporation with ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and Blackwater (renamed “Academi” and now a Constellis company). Asserting that the elevated level of violence between the Zetas and the Mexican state resembles a civil war, Correa-Cabrera identifies the beneficiaries of this war, including arms-producing companies, the international banking system, the US border economy, the US border security/military-industrial complex, and corporate capital, especially international oil and gas companies.

Book CIA

    CIA

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert G. Dorsey III
  • Publisher : Outskirts Press
  • Release : 2015-06-27
  • ISBN : 9781478757931
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book CIA written by Herbert G. Dorsey III and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Dorsey does it again, by shining a spotlight on the dark underbelly of the CIA. The connection between the Jesuits, the Committee of 300, and the CIA is historically developed in the first chapter. Hidden under the cloak of "National Security," the criminal activity of the CIA; illegal narcotics trafficking, political assassination, murder, overthrowing governments and working with terrorists organizations is well documented in the following chapters. Names, companies and organizations complicit with CIA crimes are also documented. Solutions to the problem are also suggested.

Book Black Brothers  Inc

Download or read book Black Brothers Inc written by Sean Patrick Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2005, a prominent and politically influential Muslim cleric, Imam Shamsud-din Ali, became the latest person convicted in a massive federal corruption probe in Philadelphia. As the revelations emanating from the probe continue, a critically acclaimed author and leading authority on organized crime exposes for the very first time the disturbing contemporary and historical ties between Ali, the city's notorious Black Mafia, and the sweeping federal probe. The Black Mafia was one of the bloodiest crime syndicates in modern US history. From its roots in Philadelphia's ghettos in the 1960's, it grew from a rabble of street toughs to a disciplined, ruthless organization based on fear and intimidation with links across the Eastern Seaboard. Known in its "legitimate" guise as Black Brothers, Inc., it held regular meetings, appointed investigators, treasurers and enforcers, and controlled drug dealing, loan-sharking, numbers rackets, armed robbery and extortion. Its ferocious crews of gunmen grew around burly founder Sam Christian, the most feared man on Philly's streets. They developed close ties with the influential Nation of Islam and soon were executing rivals, extorting bookies connected to the city's powerful Cosa Nostra crew, and cowing local gangs. The Black Mafia was responsible for over forty killings, the most chilling being the 1973 massacre of two adults and five children in Washington, D.C. Despite the arrests that followed, they continued their rampage, exploiting their ties to prominent lawyers and civil rights leaders. A heavy round of convictions and sentences in the 1980's shattered their strength â" only for the crack-dealing Junior Black Mafia to emerge in their wake. Researched with scores of interviews and unique access to informant logs, witness statements, wiretaps and secret FBI files, Black Brothers, Inc. is the most detailed account ever of an African-American organized crime mob, and a landmark investigation into the modern urban underworld. "Griffin did extensive research and backs up his claims carefully...If you're a crime buff, a history lover, or if you just want something fascinating to read, it's a book you can't refuse."---Terri Schlichenmeyer, syndicated reviewer and host of "The BookWormSez" "A gripping story...Griffin richly documents the Black Mafia's organization, outreach and over-the-top badness." --Joseph N. DiStefano, Philadelphia Inquirer

Book Murder  Inc

    Book Details:
  • Author : Burton B. Turkus
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Murder Inc written by Burton B. Turkus and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Murder Machine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gene Mustain
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1993-07-01
  • ISBN : 1101665882
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Murder Machine written by Gene Mustain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The inside story of a single Brooklyn gang that killed more Americans than the Iraqi army."—Mike McAlary, columnist, New York Post They were the DeMeo gang—the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

Book Explaining Crime

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh D. Barlow
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780742565104
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Explaining Crime written by Hugh D. Barlow and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full range of classic and contemporary theories of crime. With separate chapters on the nature and use of criminological theory as well as theoretical application, the authors render the difficult task of explaining crime more understandable to the introductory student. All of the main theories in criminology are reviewed including classical and rational choice, biological, psychological, and evolutionary, social structural, social process, critical, general, and integrated approaches. Copious examples of the spirit of the theories are supplied, many with a popular culture (e.g., film and music) connection.

Book Murder INC

    Book Details:
  • Author : Graham Bell
  • Publisher : True Crime
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9781609491352
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Murder INC written by Graham Bell and published by True Crime. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1920s, an all-star team of goons, gunmen and garrotters transformed America's criminal landscape. Its membership was diverse; the mob recruited men from all ethnicities and religious backgrounds. Most were natives of the Big Apple, handpicked from the city's toughest neighborhoods: Brownsville, Ocean Hill, Flushing. So prolific were their exploits that the media soon dubbed this bevy of hired hands Murder, Incorporated. The brainchild of aging mob bosses, including Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel, this ruthless hit squad quickly captured America's attention, making headlines coast to coast for over two decades. As for who these men were and how their partnership came to be, join author Graham Bell as he sheds light on this dark history of the Mafia's most notorious crime syndicate.

Book A Brotherhood Betrayed

Download or read book A Brotherhood Betrayed written by Michael Cannell and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a turning point in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was underway that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York’s most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Commission. But the man responsible for coolly silencing hundreds of informants was about to become the most talkative snitch of all. In exchange for police protection, Reles was prepared to rat out his murderous friends, from Albert Anastasia to Bugsy Siegel—but before he could testify, his shattered body was discovered on a rooftop outside his heavily-guarded hotel room. Was it a botched escape, or punishment for betraying the loyalty of the country’s most powerful mobsters? Michael Cannell's A Brotherhood Betrayed traces the history of Murder, Inc. through Reles’ rise from street punk to murder chieftain to stool pigeon, ending with his fateful death on a Coney Island rooftop. It resurrects a time when crime became organized crime: a world of money and power, depravity and corruption, street corner ambushes and elaborately choreographed hits by wise-cracking foot soldiers with names like Buggsy Goldstein and Tick Tock Tannenbaum. For a brief moment before World War II erupted, America fixated on the delicate balance of trust and betrayal on the Brooklyn streets. This is the story of the one man who tipped the balance.

Book Murder Book

Download or read book Murder Book written by Ed Brisson and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The graphic novel anthology Murder Book collects gritty and unrelenting crime comics by Ed Brisson (Sheltered, The Field, Sons of Anarchy) that chronicle the demise of the immoral and the innocent alike. Featuring art from Michael Walsh (Secret Avengers), Simon Roy (The Field), Johnnie Christmas (Sheltered), Declan Shalvey (Moon Knight), and many more, this collection is an essential for crime and noir fans.

Book Organized Crime

Download or read book Organized Crime written by Michael Benson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history, types, and methods of dealing with organized crime.