[PDF] The Mafia Encyclopedia eBook

Author : Carl Sifakis
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0816069891

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More than 500 alphabetical entries provide information on the people, places and events associated with the Mafia.

Author : Carl Sifakis
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816038565

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Surveys the careers of important figures involved with organized crime and discusses the Mafia's organization, criminal techniques, and underorld activities

Author : Rene Enriquez
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2013-05-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781936986200

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The most comprehensive book ever written on the history and inner-workings of the Mexican Mafia. Authored by two former members now working with law enforcement and a network of Mexican Mafia experts within the field of criminal justice. These experts encompass multiple generations of mafia experiences, including murders, conspiracies, membership, and folklore. Included is factual data, official documents, personal accounts and never seen before photographs. In addition Quick Response (QR) Codes are included that offer informational video clips and audio segments via smart phones and computers. This multi-media approach was designed specifically to delve further into various incidents and provide first-hand accounts. This manuscript has been vetted by Mexican Mafia experts throughout the United States.

Author : Sam Giancana
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 006198647X

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Some time in the early 1960s, during the golden age of organized crime in America—the era that would inspire The Godfather; Goodfellas, and even The Sopranos—federal investigators pulled every known piece of information on more than 800 Mafia members worldwide into a thick, phone-book-sized directory. From old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mickey Cohen to young turks like Paul Castellano and Vinny "The Chin" Gigante, the guide offered at-a-glance profiles of small-time thugs and major dons alike... and was allegedly the book Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used to investigate the mob. Recently discovered, and published for the first time in this facsimile edition, Mafia is a treasure trove of info on the underworld in mid-century America—a revelatory artifact and an irresistible read.

Author : Carl Sifakis
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781417724079

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Surveys the careers of important figures involved with organized crime and discusses the Mafia's organization, criminal techniques, and underorld activities

Author : Tony Rafael
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1594032734

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It has been called the most dangerous gang in American history. In Los Angeles alone it is responsible for over 100 homicides per year. Although it has fewer than 300 members, it controls a 40,000-strong street army that is eager to advance its agenda. It waves the flag of the Black Hand and its business is murder. Although known on the streets for over fifty years, the Mexican Mafia has flown under the radar of public awareness and has flourished beneath a deep cover of secrecy. Members are forbidden even to acknowledge its existence. For the first time in its history, the Mexican Mafia is now getting the attention it has been striving to avoid. In this briskly written and thoroughly researched book, Tony Rafael looks at the birth and the blood-soaked growth of this criminal enterprise through the eyes of the victims, the dropouts, the cops and DAs on the front lines of the war against the Mexican Mafia. The first book ever published on the subject, Southern Soldiers is a pioneering work that unveils the operations of this California prison gang and describes how it grew from a small clique of inmates into a transnational criminal organization. As the first prison gang ever to project its power beyond prison walls, the Mexican Mafia controls virtually every Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California and is rapidly expanding its influence into the entire Southwest, across the East Coast, and even into Canada. Riding a wave of unchecked immigration and seemingly beyond the reach of law enforcement, the Mexican Mafia is poised to become the Cosa Nostra of twenty-first-century America.

Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2007-09-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781843404026

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The world of gangsters is big business and stretches way beyond the Sicilian Mafia who have been most often depicted on the silver screen in films such as the 'Godfather' trilogy and 'Scarface'. The book is arranged in chapters geographically showing the history of organized crime in different territories around the world, the legendary figures, the famous heists and busts and the power these organizations still exert today. As many of the crime syndicates are interlinked in their day-to-day dealings, or have origins in other organizations, the book is fully cross-referenced to help the reader. Chapters include The Sicilian Mafia and its development in coast-to-coast America under the guidance of the likes of Al Capone and ‘Bugsy’ Siegel; the gangsters of Marseilles and Paris; the Russian and other Eastern Bloc Mafia; the Triads of Asia; The Jamaican Yardies; the African/American crimelords that control the poorer areas of Los Angeles and New York; and the legendary London gangsters, typified by the Kray twins’ stranglehold on London during the 1960s.