CRJU 20423 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Lawless Years, Extortion, Serial Killer
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Italian members, were easily and increasingly exploited by the growing black. Hand menace: most experts agreed that black hand gangs were small-time, often solo operations that required little more than ready access to victims and some coal dust into which to dip the hand used to sign the letter. The lawless years: federal agents shot down one of the most notorious desperados of the era, however, as the gangs sought to resolve conflicts that arose between them, violence was an inevitable result. Crime in the streets: a group of several hundred newark youth went on a destructive rampage inside the park, the effects of postwar crime wave were pervasive. How the above is related: these black hand extortionists, prohibition-era gangsters, marauding street gangs, satanic conspirators, and corporate criminals are all actors in the kind of grand social dramas that this book explores. We refer to these dramas as crime waves.
