More than 500 alphabetical entries provide information on the people, places and events associated with the Mafia.
More than ninety-five black-and-white photographs help capture Mafia history from the birth of the brotherhood to the law enforcement agents and organizations who have tried -- and failed -- to destroy it.This edition traces the great Mafia ...
Viva-Facts On File: The Mafia Encyclopedia 3Rd/Edi
The most comprehensive book ever written on the history and inner-workings of the Mexican Mafia.
The Mexican Mafia Encyclopedia (2nd Edition)
Surveys the careers of important figures involved with organized crime and discusses the Mafia's organization, criminal techniques, and underorld activities
Black Hand, Tammany Hall, political scandals, mafias, cartels, and opium gangs. The Encyclopedia of Gangsters provides an encompassing look at organized crime around the world.
Brilliantly catalogued by the dean of American true-crime writers, Jay Robert Nash, this volume profiles the notorious gangsters, crime families, cartels, and gangland events that have shaped world history.Here are gangs such as the Dead ...
Offers nearly 900 alphabetically arranged phrases and terms associated with the criminal world.
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Nowadays the word 'Mafia' refers nearly all groups or gangs involved in organized crime.
From the Introduction:"The history of crime in America is quite simply the history of America"