Author : C.M. Johnson
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 168444215X
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Each Origins: Whodunnit: Organized Crime eShort is a single chapter from the full Origins: Whodunnit: Organized Crime title, packaged as a mini eBook. Origins: Whodunnit: Organized Crime eShorts include The Red Mafia, Triads, The Japanese Yakuza, and The Italian Mafia.
Author : Robert I. Friedman
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2009-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0316092878
In the past decade, from Brighton Beach to Moscow, Toronto to Hong Kong, the Russian mob has become the world's fastest-growing criminal superpower. Trafficking in prostitutes, heroin, and missiles, the mafiya poses an enormous threat to global stability and safety. Today, the mafiya controls over 80 percent of Russia's banks and has siphoned off billions of dollars in Western loans and aid, almost certainly derailing the chance for a stable democracy there. But that is just the beginning, for the mafiya is now in every corner of the United States and has infiltrated some of the banks and brokerage firms that handle your money. And American law enforcement is just waking up to this staggering problem. No journalist in the world knows more about the mafiya than Friedman, who has covered the Russian mob for Details, Vanity Fair, and New York. At great peril to himself, Friedman interviewed many of the top mobsters, who were stunningly candid about their activities. In their depravity, ruthlessness, and brutality, Russian gangsters make the traditional Mafia look like choirboys. Red Mafiya will appeal to anyone interested in the Mob.
Author : Wesley Jacques
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1620879018
“Don’t let your tongue be your worst enemy.” —John “Sonny” Franzese “You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” —Al Capone “I never lie to any man because I don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid.” —John Gotti Despite the fact that secrecy is vital to the Mob, mobsters have revealed themselves to be notorious gossips, prone to bragging, and even outrageous loudmouths. Delve into the inner workings of the Mob and the mindset of those who run it through these mesmerizing quotes from some of the smoothest and most dangerous criminals, real and fictional, who ever made headlines. Whether they’re spilling to their lawyers or making blood-chilling threats, mobsters reveal startling insights on leadership, guilt, and loyalty. While at times shocking, crude, and even unintentionally funny, these quotes also help us to see the humanity behind these dark bosses of the underworld . . . and give us a little insight into the dark side of our own natures, as well.
Author : Annelise Graebner Anderson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN :
The mafia is a major feature of Russia's experience in making the transition to a market economy. This article inquires into the nature and origin of this phenomenon. The evidence suggests that the Russian mafia phenomenon is a direct outgrowth of the informal economy and related corruption that was a significant part of the economy of the Soviet Union. Economists have usually concluded that the informal economy improved efficiency and consumer satisfaction in the Soviet economy. As aspects of this informal economy have developed into mafia activity, it has become less benign and is a possible threat to the success of the market economy in Russia because it threatens to defeat competition and thus the major benefit of a market economy.
Author : Rami Kivisalo
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1441213910
Born to Finnish missionaries in Tanzania, Rami Kivisalo showed an unexpected bent toward crime and violence. In his teens he was schooled by a master in the lethal art of "snake kung fu." At twenty he had a booming international drug and arms trade, was allied with a major Russian mafia organization, and was drawing on demonic forces to maintain control. With a vivid, you-are-there style, this former Russian mob boss delivers a gripping story of how the son of missionary parents became empowered, and then trapped, in the deadly world of demonic possession and international intrigue--until the Lord reached out and saved him. Full of adrenaline-pumping action, true-life crime, and the unconditional grace of God, The Red Scorpion is an ultimately uplifting reminder of how even the most prodigal of sons is welcomed home.
Author : Werner Raith
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Gangs
ISBN : 9781568580739
Explains how, with the fall of the Soviet Union, a new power structure, the Red Mafia, has become a destructive and influential force in the reorganization of the East, laundering billions of dollars annually, controlling prostitution, running drugs, and dealing in weapons. IP.
Author : Maurizio Catino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108750931
How do mafias work? How do they recruit people, control members, conduct legal and illegal business, and use violence? Why do they establish such a complex mix of rituals, rules, and codes of conduct? And how do they differ? Why do some mafias commit many more murders than others? This book makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a collative analysis of historical accounts, official data, investigative sources, and interviews. Catino presents a comparative study of seven mafias around the world, from three Italian mafias to the American Cosa Nostra, Japanese Yakuza, Chinese Triads, and Russian mafia. He identifies the organizational architecture that characterizes these criminal groups, and relates different organizational models to the use of violence. Furthermore, he advances a theory on the specific functionality of mafia rules and discusses the major organizational dilemmas that mafias face. This book shows that understanding the organizational logic of mafias is an indispensable step in confronting them.
Author : Billy Stonewall Birt
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Mafia
ISBN : 9781680260427
"The story of Georgia's 'Dixie Mafia' has never been told. At its core was one man and he was bigger than life. He was the author and enforcer of the rules that governed the entire organization. He set the standard of code that made the 'Dixie Mafia" impenetrable. And he was the one that anyone who broke that code would have to face. His name was Billy Sunday Birt and this is his story" --page 4 cover.
Author : Kate King
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2021-06-23
Category :
ISBN :
Coming August 2021 "I need her. Name your price." At twenty-three, you would think I could say no to being traded to the enemy, but that's not how life works when you grow up in an organized crime family. I consider myself lucky to have grown up at all. Ten years ago, my brother was murdered in the gang war that split the city of St. Adrian down the middle. My family took the South Side, and the North Side went to them. The Gentlemen. Now the leader of the Gentlemen is asking for my help and my father has been nice enough to agree to his terms. In exchange for my sister's protection, I need to cross the divide and live with the family that killed my brother. Too bad I've never been great at playing nice. Nico, Beck and Rush are the enemy. The leaders of the Gentlemen. They're conceited, lying, murderous assholes and they're the reason I've been trained all my life to cheat, steal, and shoot my way to the top. I'm ready to take them down from the inside. I just hope they don't get to me first. After all, a truce between two enemies is a promise waiting to be broken. Red Handed is an enemies to lovers contemporary mafia romance where the female main character will end up with multiple love interests by the end of the series. All the characters are in their mid-twenties. There are dark themes and graphic violence, but no bullying or violence toward the main character. This is book one of three.
Author : Paul Hoffman
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 1976
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780399117695
A confessed Mafia hit man describes the New Jersey Campisi family's reckless and violent criminal doings and his own defiance of the code in working for their undoing
