Gangsters, Goodfellas and Wiseguys - Supplemental Reading

Course Number: CC205

Supplemental Readings Available Through Omni

These articles are also available in Organized Crime: Critical Concepts in Criminology edited by Federico Varese. This 4-volume print set can be borrowed through Omni.

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Articles and Book Chapters

General introduction: what is organized crime? Federico Varese -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 1; Part: n/a; Chapter Title: General introduction: what is organized crime?; Pages: n/a)

Index -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 4; Part: 13; Chapter Title: Index; Pages: n/a)

Volume I – Definitions and Theories

Rinconete and Cortadillo Miguel de Cervantes

On defining "organized crime": the development of a definition and a typology Michael D. Maltz

The organized crime continuum: a further specification of a new conceptual model Frank E. Hagan

The paradoxes of organized crime Letizia Paoli

Crime as an American way of life Daniel Bell

Individual choice, material culture, and organized crime Peter A. Lupsha

Paragons, pariahs, and pirates: a spectrum-based theory of enterprise Dwight C. Smith, Jr.

Illegal enterprise: a theoretical and historical interpretation Mark H. Haller

The firm: organizational logic and criminal culture on a shifting terrain Richard Hobbs

Economics and criminal enterprise Thomas C. Schelling

What is the business of organized crime? Thomas C. Schelling

A defense of organized crime? James M. Buchanan -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 1; Part: 2; Chapter Title: 12 - A defense of organized crime?; Pages: n/a)

The economic theory of the criminal firm Paul H. Rubin -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 1; Part: 2; Chapter Title: 13 - The economic theory of the criminal firm; Pages: n/a)

Economic consequences of organized violence Frederic C. Lane

Why state-of-nature theory? Robert Nozick -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 1; Part: 2; Chapter Title: 15 - Why state-of-nature theory?; Pages: n/a)

The state of nature Robert Nozick -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 1; Part: 2; Chapter Title: 16 - The state of nature; Pages: n/a)

War making and state making as organized crime Charles Tilly

Fragments of an economic theory of the mafia Diego Gambetta

The political economy of organized crime: providing protection when the state does not Stergios Skaperdas

Methodological problems in the study of organized crime as a social problem Donald R. Cressey

The application of network analysis to criminal intelligence: an assessment of the prospects Malcolm K. Sparrow

Volume II - Origins, Resources and Organization

Land reform, the market for protection, and the origins of the Sicilian mafia: theory and evidence Oriana Bandiera

Is Sicily the future of Russia? Private protection and the rise of the Russian mafia Federico Varese

The dark side of private ordering: an institutional and empirical analysis of organized crime Curtis J. Milhaupt and Mark D. West

The Notorious Purple Gang: Detroit's all-Jewish Prohibition era mob Robert A. Rockaway

Organized crime in urban society: Chicago in the twentieth century Mark H. Haller

The triads as business Yiu K. Chu

Wise guy: life in a mafia family Nicholas Pileggi -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 2; Part: 5; Chapter Title: 28 - Wise guy: life in a mafia family; Pages: n/a)

The trademarks Diego Gambetta -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 2; Part: 6; Chapter Title: 29- The trademarks; Pages: n/a)

Gender norms in the Sicilian mafia, 1945-86 Valerie Pizzini-Gambetta -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 2; Part: 6; Chapter Title: 30 - Gender norms in the Sicilian mafia, 1945-86; Pages: n/a)

The Benguerra family Annelise Graebner Anderson -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 2; Part: 6; Chapter Title: 31 - The Benguerra family; Pages: n/a)

Careers opportunities and network-based privileges in the Cosa Nostra Carlo Morselli

Organisation Yiu K. Chu

The mafia in Perm Federico Varese

The modern yakuza: structure and organization Peter Hill

Volume III - Organized Crime and Penetration of Markets

Orderly markets Diego Gambetta -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 3; Part: 7; Chapter Title: 36 - Orderly markets; Pages: n/a)

The exploitation of prostitution John Landesco -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 3; Part: 7; Chapter Title: 37 - The exploitation of prostitution; Pages: n/a)

Numbers gambling Annelise Graebner Anderson -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 3; Part: 7; Chapter Title: 38 - Numbers gambling; Pages: n/a)

Loansharking Annelise Graebner Anderson -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 3; Part: 7; Chapter Title: 39 - Loansharking; Pages: n/a)

Labor racketeering: the mafia and the unions James B. Jacobs and Ellen Peters

The rational racketeer: pasta protection in Depression Era Chicago Barbara Alexander

Racketeers as cartel organizers Peter Reuter -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 3; Part: 7; Chapter Title: 42 - Racketeers as cartel organizers; Pages: n/a)

On the origins of fuels racketeering: the Americans and the "Russians" in New York Alan A. Block -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 3; Part: 7; Chapter Title: 43 - On the origins of fuels racketeering: the Americans and the "Russians" in New York; Pages: n/a)

Protection against competitors: traditional operations Yiu K. Chu

Protection against competitors: recent operations Yiu K. Chu

Drug Dealing Yiu K. Chu

Gambling Yiu K. Chu

Prostitution Yiu K. Chu

Private protection in Russia and Poland Timothy Frye

Casino politics, organized crime and the post-colonial state in Macau Lo Shiu Hing

The ethnic vice industry, 1880-1944 Ivan Light

An economic analysis of a drug-selling gang's finances Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Black and white control of numbers gambling: a cultural assets-social capital view Darrell Steffensmeier and Jeffrey T. Ulmer

Out of Africa: the human trade between Libya and Lampedusa Salvatore Coluccello and Simon Massey

Volume IV - Organized Crime and Popular Culture, States and Terrorism

The secret history of Japanese cinema: the yakuza movies Federico Varese

Mobster gravestones in 1990s Russia Olga Matich

The Allies and the mafia Salvatore Lupo

The gangster and the politician John Landesco -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 4; Part: 9; Chapter Title: 58 - The gangster and the politician; Pages: n/a)

A modern marriage of convenience: a collaboration between organized crime and U.S. intelligence Alan A. Block -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 4; Part: 9; Chapter Title: 59 - A modern marriage of convenience: a collaboration between organized crime and U.S. intelligence; Pages: n/a)

Organized crime and the political-criminal nexus in China Ko-Lin Chin and Roy Godson

Law enforcement disruption of a drug importation network Carlo Morselli and Katia Petit

New York City as organized crime fighter James B. Jacobs and Alex Hortis -- (please click here to start chapter scan request: Volume: 4; Part: 10; Chapter Title: 62 - New York City as organized crime fighter; Pages: n/a)

Scrutinizing RICO Carlo Morselli and Lila Kazemian

Heisei yakuza: burst bubble and Bōtaihō Peter Hill

The mafia and al-Qaeda: violent and secretive organizations in comparative and historical perspective Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider

The crime-terror continuum: tracing the interplay between transnational organized crime and terrorism Tamara Makarenko

How mafias migrate: the case of the 'Ndrangheta in northern Italy Federico Varese

Hong Kong triads after 1997 Yiu K. Chu

The search for the Russian mafia: Central and Eastern European criminals in the Netherlands, 1989-2005 Anton Weenick and Franca van der Laan

The decline of the American mafia Peter Reuter

The declining significance of triad societies in transnational illegal activities: a structural deficiency perspective Sheldon Zhang and Ko-Lin Chin

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