Crooked Ladder
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Anthony Brown
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comparative crime analysis
criminal
Criminal Life Styles
criminal upward mobility pathways
criminology research
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Ethnic Criminal
Ethnic Gangster
Ethnic Newcomers
ethnic succession theory
Higher Average Socioeconomic Status
Incoming Ethnic Minorities
Irish Criminal
Irish Gangs
Irish Gangsters
Italian Crime
Italian Criminals
Italian Gangsters
Jefferson Avenue
Jewish Gangsters
Johnny Torrio
Longy Zwillman
Lower Income Newcomer
M. O'Kane James
Meyer Lansky
minority group integration
New York Amsterdam
Organized Crime
social mobility studies
United States Protectorate
urban sociology
Vito Genovese
Wild Colonial Boy
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780765809940
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians, and dismissed as a subject not to be taken too seriously by those researching the mobility patterns of their own ethnic ancestors or current minority newcomers. The Crooked Ladder represents a groundbreaking attempt to describe how some members of ethnic minorities have utilized organized crime as one vehicle of upward mobility, advancing from lower-class status to middle-class power and respectability.O'Kane illustrates the criminal road to prosperity as a process of displacement and succession: each group competes with and eventually eliminates its more established predecessor from the upper echelons of organized crime. This historical criminal succession mirrors the upward mobility of the Irish, Jews, and Italians in the larger, conventional noncriminal realm. Arguing that African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics are pursuing similar criminal routes, O'Kane takes issue with contemporary social scientists who view the current plight of minorities as unique in American social life.As a fundamental rethinking of the American ethnic experience with crime, The Crooked Ladder will be essential reading for social historians, sociologists, and criminologists. Now available in paperback, it will be useful in criminology courses and well as classes in ethnicity and social relations.
James M. O'Kane is professor of sociology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. He is the author of Pamplona: A Sociological Analysis of Migration and Urban Adaptation Patterns.
