American Mafia

Examples of American Mafia in the following topics:

• Global Crime

  • The American Mafia in the U.S. have had links with organized crime groups in Italy such as the Camorra, the 'Ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita, and Sicilian Mafia.
  • The Cosa Nostra has also been known to work with the Irish Mob (John Gotti of the Gambino family and James Coonan of the Westies are known to have worked together, with the Westies operating as a contract hitman for the Gambino family after they helped Coonan come to power), the Japanese Yakuza and the Russian Mafia.

• Organized Crime

  • Some notable patron-client networks involve the Russian and Albanian mafias, the Japanese Yakuza, the Irish mob, and the Sicilian and Italian American Cosa Nostra (i.e. the Sicilian mafia).

• The Roaring Twenties

  • Urbanization also reached a climax in the 1920s, with more Americans living in cities of 2,500 or more people than in small towns or rural areas than at any previous time in the country’s history.
  • The term usually refers to American literary notables who lived in Paris at the time, including Ernest Hemingway, F.
  • African-American literary and artistic culture developed rapidly during the 1920s under the banner of "The Harlem Renaissance," named for the historically black Harlem section of New York City.
  • The illicit alcohol industry earned an average of $3 billion per year in illegal income, none of which was taxed, and effectively transformed cities into battlegrounds fought over by various crime syndicates, most notably the American Mafia.
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• Strain Theory: How Social Values Produce Deviance

  • Social strain theory was developed by famed American sociologist Robert K.
  • For example, a member of the Mafia values wealth but employs alternative means of attaining his wealth; in this example, the Mafia member's means would be deviant.

• Forced Entry

  • In February 2000, an individual under the alias of MafiaBoy began a series denial-of-service attacks against high profile websites, including Yahoo!
  • On August 3, 2000, Canadian federal prosecutors charged MafiaBoy with 54 counts of illegal access to computers, plus a total of 10 counts of mischief to data for his attacks.

• American Entry into WWI

• The American-Japenese Relationship

• Theories of Deviance

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• Civil Rights of Native Americans

  • Historical policies of American expansion have infringed upon the rights of Native Americans and have lead to long-term inequality.
  • Native Americans are people of indigenous American descent, including indigenous peoples within the boundaries of the present-day United States.
  • According to US Census data, 1.37% of Americans identify themselves as Native American.
  • During the initial phases of American colonization, European policy generally forced Native Americans westward, where there was a low density of European settlement.
  • Despite these efforts, Native Americans still tend to have lower socioeconomic status and greater exposure to crime and abuse than other American groups.

• American Indians and the War Effort

  • American Indians first saw action in the Pacific Theater along with the rest of the American army and navy.
  • American Indians were also among the first Americans to enter Germany and played a role in the Liberation of Berlin.
  • Many military awards offered to American Indian soldiers were later used during the termination period by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as proof that American Indians were eager to assimilate into white mainstream American culture.
  • The war's aftermath, says historian Allison Bernstein, marked a "new era in Indian affairs" and turned "American Indians" into "Indian Americans."
  • In 1940, only 5 percent of Native Americans lived in cities.