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Book Report of Special Investigation by the District Attorney of Kings County and the December 1949 Grand Jury

Download or read book Report of Special Investigation by the District Attorney of Kings County and the December 1949 Grand Jury written by Kings County (N.Y.). District Attorney's Office and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Municipal Reference Library Notes

Download or read book Municipal Reference Library Notes written by New York Public Library. Municipal Reference Library and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress Senate
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2272 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 2272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1951
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1426 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wiretapping  Eavesdropping  and the Bill of Rights

Download or read book Wiretapping Eavesdropping and the Bill of Rights written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book East Side West Side

Download or read book East Side West Side written by Alan Block and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on primary source documents, this historical study establishes the interconnections between private violence and political, social, and economic life in New York from 1930-1950. By describing and analyzing both the social world and social system of organized crime, Block provides a new perspective, one based on racial and ethnic stereotypes. The book provides a penetrating look at one of the most misunderstood aspects of American society, important for historians, criminologists and sociologists.

Book Masters of Paradise

Download or read book Masters of Paradise written by Alan A. Block and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of organized crime's penetration of the islands and the corruption of its high officials during the time The Bahamas become politically independent of Great Britain. It describes secret U.S. Internal Revenue Service operations aimed at American criminals involved in Bahamian-based tax scams and similar crimes. Block paints a devastating picture of a symbiotic relationship among off-shore tax havens in The Bahamas, sophisticated American criminals, and complacent public officials in the United States. During the 1960s and 1970s, the I.R.S. launched major investigations into American organized crime and the subterranean economy of The Bahamas. Block's access to the private papers of many of the key players in these affairs has given him a unique perspective. He has uncovered details of crime, corruption, and bureaucratic infighting within and among the U.S. Treasury and Justice Departments that have been largely unrecognized by previous researchers. Block shows how important links in the international traffic in cocaine were forged in the Bahamas, in full view of American officials. Masters of Paradise raises major questions about American law enforcement officials' commitment to fighting complex international crime during the 1960s and the 1970s. While there have been other studies of tax havens, money laundering, and offshore investigations, Block's access to information and his grasp of its meaning is unique. Professionals interested in the history and sociology of organized crime and the underground economy will find this book eye-opening. General readers interested in organized crime and political corruption will find it absorbing.

Book All In

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan D Cohen
  • Publisher : University of Nevada Press
  • Release : 2018-03-30
  • ISBN : 1943859612
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book All In written by Jonathan D Cohen and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gambling, the risky enterprise of chance, is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Office March Madness brackets, a day at the race track, a friendly wager, the random ridiculous Super Bowl prop bet, bingo night, or the latest media frenzy over the Powerball jackpot—all emphasize the ubiquity of this major economic force and cultural phenomenon. Approximately 70 percent of Americans regularly engage in some form of betting, amounting to over $140 billion in combined casino and lottery revenue every year. A hundred years ago, however, legal gambling was a rarity in the United States. A fresh take on the history of modern American gambling, All In provides a closer look at the shifting economic, cultural, religious, and political conditions that facilitated gambling’s expansion and prominence in American consumerism and popular culture. In its pages, a diverse range of essays covering commercial and Native American casinos, sports betting, lotteries, bingo, and more piece together a picture of how gambling became so widespread over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing from a range of academic disciplines, this collection explores five aspects of American gambling history: crime, advertising, politics, religion, and identity. In doing so, All In illuminates the on-the-ground debates over gambling’s expansion, the failed attempts to thwart legalized betting, and the consequences of its present ubiquity in the United States.

Book Report of the Prison Association of New York

Download or read book Report of the Prison Association of New York written by Correctional Association of New York and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 51st includes "Prison laws of the State of New York" (p. [157]-998)

Book Police Code of Silence in Times of Change

Download or read book Police Code of Silence in Times of Change written by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules.Using a case study of a medium-sized U.S. police agency, this book employs the lens of police integrity theory to provide empirically grounded explanations of the code of silence. It examines the potential effects of organizational factors and the attitudes of individual police officers on their willingness to adhere to the code of silence in cases of police corruption, the use of excessive force, interpersonal deviance, and organizational deviance. The book focuses on the following factors that could influence the police code of silence in the times of change: The impact of organizational rule dissemination, discipline, and disciplinary fairness on the scope of the code of silence The role organizational justice plays in shaping police officer willingness to report misconduct The effect that police officers’ self-legitimacy has on their decisions to adhere to the code The influence of peer culture on individual police officer amenability to maintain the code The relationship between officers’ views of themselves, the organization, and the community on their willingness to report misconduct .

Book Running the Numbers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Vaz
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2020-04-17
  • ISBN : 022669058X
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Running the Numbers written by Matthew Vaz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today’s lotteries can be found in an African American gambling economy that flourished in urban communities in the mid-twentieth century. In Running the Numbers, Matthew Vaz reveals how the politics of gambling became enmeshed in disputes over racial justice and police legitimacy. As Vaz highlights, early urban gamblers favored low-stakes games built around combinations of winning numbers. When these games became one of the largest economic engines in nonwhite areas like Harlem and Chicago’s south side, police took notice of the illegal business—and took advantage of new opportunities to benefit from graft and other corrupt practices. Eventually, governments found an unusual solution to the problems of illicit gambling and abusive police tactics: coopting the market through legal state-run lotteries, which could offer larger jackpots than any underground game. By tracing this process and the tensions and conflicts that propelled it, Vaz brilliantly calls attention to the fact that, much like education and housing in twentieth-century America, the gambling economy has also been a form of disputed terrain upon which racial power has been expressed, resisted, and reworked.