Illegal Enterprise: The Work of Historian Mark Haller by Haller, Mark H.

Illegal Enterprise: The Work of Historian Mark Haller (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780761860617)

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Illegal Enterprise: The Work of Historian Mark Haller by Haller, Mark H.

Illegal Enterprise: The Work of Historian Mark Haller

$81.00
Illegal Enterprise: The Work of Historian Mark Haller by Haller, Mark H.

Illegal Enterprise: The Work of Historian Mark Haller

$81.00
Format: Hardcover
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Representing over four decades of work, this monograph by historian Mark H. Haller includes his work on organized crime in Chicago, particularly the origins of John Landesco's now classic work titled Organized Crime in Chicago (1929), written for the Illinois Crime Survey. Essays on organized crime in both Philadelphia and Chicago, as well as vignettes on Al "Scarface" Capone, Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, and Max "Boo Boo" Hoff, provide readers with a lively selection of Haller's commentary. Finally, this book incorporates Haller's critique of the Mafia model of organized crime and his elaboration of the illegal enterprise model of gangsters and their role in the American subeconomy, including the historical importance of prohibition and 19th century gambling syndicates in urban America.


Author: Mark H. Haller
ISBN-10: 0761860614
ISBN-13: 9780761860617
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2013
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
By Mark H. Haller
By Mark H. Haller
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For almost fifty years, Mark H. Haller had been a historian of illegal enterprise--more commonly known as organized crime--in urban America. He is the author of an introduction to the now classic work by John Landesco in Organized Crime in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 1968). Haller passed away in 2012.

Matthew G. Yeager obtained his bachelor's degree in criminology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972. He was introduced to the work of Mark H. Haller and John Landesco during this time. His master's degree is from the State University of New York at Albany (1975), and his doctorate in sociology is from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (2006). He has published over thirty articles and studies in theoretical and applied criminology and is a practicing clinical criminologist in sentencing alternatives. He is currently associate professor in the Department of Sociology at King's University College, part of Western University-Canada. He lives in London, Ontario.

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