Ergebnis für "mafia" in Gewalt in der Gesellschaft

A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945. In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed...

When alleged mob hitman Giuseppe “Joe” Parisi gunned down Carlo Siniscalchi—the ruthless “King of Bootleggers”—as his limousine idled at the curb, he set off one of the bloodiest Mafia vendettas in New England history. The fallout was immediate and savage. A retaliatory strike on Parisi’s unsuspecting family and attorney. A deadly car-to-car gunfight on a desolate Connecticut roadway.

Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest clothes, and a close-knit family. Yet her childhood was far from idyllic. Classmates avoided her; boys wouldn't date her. Eventually she learned why: They were afraid of her father. A made man in the Colombo crime family, Gregory Scarpa, Sr., was a stone-cold killer nicknamed the "Grim Reaper." Unlike most tight-lipped mobsters, Scarpa talked business - and murder - in front of his kids.

This groundbreaking work takes readers deep into the world of police oversight and reveals what really happens when everyday people try to hold the police accountable. When you think about the police, who do you think of: Do you think of one officer, or the police as an institution? From movies...

Social scientist and crime writer James A. Buccellato explores Detroit's struggle with gang violence, public corruption, and the politics of vice during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.

E' la storia di Enzo, un ragazzo della provincia di Trapani. Impara ben presto che la diffidenza, l'omertà, l'astuzia, la capacità di intimidire e di imporsi con la forza sono essenziali per farsi strada nel suo mondo. Si mette in luce presso la famiglia mafiosa del luogo e diventa un "soldato" ai suoi ordini. Alla fine, arrestato un'ultima volta, e già condannato a morte dall'organizzazione, decide di fermarsi e cercare una via d'uscita nella scelta del pentimento, dell'"infamità", che si realizza nell'incontro con un magistrato: Paolo Borsellino.

Leonardo Sciascia pubblicò Il giorno della civetta nel 1961. Fu il primo, vero libro sulla mafia in Sicilia. Con un epilogo amaro: alla fine vince il boss. Da allora si è sempre tentato di cambiare quella conclusione. Non solo in letteratura. Ci siamo riusciti? La Sicilia è stata l'inconscio della storia italiana. Il suo incubo. Una peste siciliana si è diffusa nel pianeta, contagiandolo. Oggi l'epidemia è di nuovo in cammino, da Milano a Palermo, dall'Europa agli Stati Uniti.

Drug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists. VICE journalist Deborah Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever in-depth exploration of the hidden power women wield in Latin American drug cartels You’ve heard of...

In this heart-wrenching memoir, former NFL star Kermit Alexander tells the devastating true story of the horrific massacre of his family and his subsequent years of despair, followed by a spiritual renewal that showed him a way to rebuild his family and reclaim his life. On the morning of August...

Buffalo has housed its fair share of thugs and mobsters. Besides common criminals and bank robbers, a powerful crime family headed by local boss Stefano Magaddino emerged in the 1920s. Close to Canada, Niagara Falls and Buffalo were perfect avenues through which to transport booze, and Magaddino and his Mafiosi maintained a stranglehold on the city until his death in 1974. Local mob expert Michael Rizzo takes a tour of Buffalo's mafia exploits everything from these brutal gangsters' favorite hangouts to secret underground tunnels to murder.