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From Gangs to Gangsters: How American Sociology Organized Crime, 1918-1994

By Marylee Reynolds.

Ever wonder why the famed Chicago School of sociology at the University of Chicago studied juvenile delinquency almost to the exclusion of all else, even though it was during the height of organized crime in Chicago? This book provides an answer, and a penetrating analysis of the influence of organized crime on American academic sociology.

NY. Harrow and Heston Publishers. 2012.