Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely
ignored by social scientists and historians, and dismissed as a
subject not to be taken too seriously by those researching the
mobility patterns of their own ethnic ancestors or current minority
newcomers. "The Crooked Ladder" represents a groundbreaking attempt
to describe how some members of ethnic minorities have utilized
organized crime as one vehicle of upward mobility, advancing from
lower-class status to middle-class power and respectability.
O'Kane illustrates the criminal road to prosperity as a process
of displacement and succession: each group competes with and
eventually eliminates its more established predecessor from the
upper echelons of organized crime. This historical criminal
succession mirrors the upward mobility of the Irish, Jews, and
Italians in the larger, conventional noncriminal realm. Arguing
that African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics are pursuing similar
criminal routes, O'Kane takes issue with contemporary social
scientists who view the current plight of minorities as unique in
American social life.
As a fundamental rethinking of the American ethnic experience
with crime, "The Crooked Ladder" will be essential reading for
social historians, sociologists, and criminologists. Now available
in paperback, it will be useful in criminology courses and well as
classes in ethnicity and social relations.
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