Illegal Enterprise: The Work of Historian Mark Haller [Paperback]

Representing over four decades of work, this monograph by historian Mark H. Haller includes his work on organized crime in Chicago, particularly the origins of John Landescos now classic work titled Organized Crime in Chicago (1929), written for the Illinois Crime Survey. Essays on organized crime in both Philadelphia and Chicago, as well as vignettes on Al Scarface Capone, Arnold The Brain Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, and Max Boo Boo Hoff, provide readers with a lively selection of Hallers commentary. Finally, this book incorporates Hallers critique of the Mafia model of organized crime and his elaboration of the illegal enterprise model of gangsters and their role in the American subeconomy, including the historical importance of prohibition and 19th century gambling syndicates in urban America.

For almost fifty years, Mark H. Haller had been a historian of illegal enterprisemore commonly known as organized crimein urban America. He is the author of an introduction to the now classic work by John Landesco in Organized Crime in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 1968). Haller passed away in 2012.

Matthew G. Yeager obtained his bachelors degree in criminology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972. He was introduced to the work of Mark H. Haller and John Landesco during this time. His masters degree is from the State University of New York at Albany (1975), and his doctorate in sociology is from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (2006). He has published over thirty articles and studies in theoretical and applied criminology and is a practicing clinical criminologist in sentencing alternatives. He is currently associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Kings University College, part of Western University-Canada. He lives in London, Ontario.

This book is well suited for undergraduate classes within criminology or criminal justice programs that focus on policy. The language in the book is written in a manner thatlÓ"