PhiladelphiaỚ"s Black Mafia A Social and Political History /

• Main Author: Griffin, Sean Patrick. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
• Series: Studies of Organized Crime, 2
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Criminology.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Sociology, general.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia' could be used as primary reading in deviance and organized crime courses. Academicians in the fields of criminology, sociology, history, political science and African-American Studies will find the book compelling and important. This book provides the firs...

Table of Contents:

• Social History 1968Ớ<U+001c>1974
• 1968Ớ<U+001c>1972: The Origins of the Black Mafia
• 1973Ớ<U+001c>1974: Murder and Infamy
• 1968Ớ<U+001c>1974: Social Movements, Social Systems and the Black Mafia
• The Politics of Ignorance and the ART of Exploitation
• Research Methodology
• Social History, 1975Ớ<U+001c>2002
• 1975Ớ<U+001c>1984: PhiladelphiaỚ"s Black Mafia on the Wane
• 1985Ớ<U+001c>2002: Old Heads, Old Habits
• Criminology and the History of African-American Organized Crime
• Discussion: Contemporary Academic Perspectives on the Black Mafia and African-American Organized Crime
• Conclusions.