{"product_id":"the-neighborhood-outfit-9780252038716","title":"The Neighborhood Outfit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShows, discrimination blocked opportunities for Italians' social mobility and the close-knit Italian communities that arose in response to such limits produced a rich supply of social capital Italians used to pursue alternative routes to success that ranged from Italian grocery stores to union organizing to, on occasion, crime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An in-depth historical review and analysis of an important part of organized crime, the \"Outfit,\" in the Cook County, Illinois, suburb of Chicago Heights. This outstanding work of scholarship makes use of popular and scholarly sources, including the author's own family whose roots in the community go back generations. His book is a must for anyone interested in organized crime in Chicago and its environs.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Howard Abadinsky, author of Organized Crime\u003cbr\u003e\"Corsino succeeds in \u003ci\u003eThe Neighborhood Outfit\u003c\/i\u003e, demolishing the essentialist perspective on Italian American participation in organized crime.\"--\u003ci\u003eItalian American Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Louis Corsino provides an in-depth historical review and analysis of an important part of organized crime, the \"Outfit,\" in the Cook County, Illinois, suburb of Chicago Heights. This outstanding work of scholarship makes use of popular and scholarly sources, including the author's own family whose roots in the community go back generations. His book is a must for anyone interested in organized crime in Chicago and its environs.\"--Howard Abadinsky, author of \u003ci\u003eOrganized Crime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Louis Corsino’s book studies recruitment into traditional organized crime. This book focuses on the Chicago Heights Crew, one of the five 'Street Crews' of the Chicago Outfit. While much has been written about the functional aspects of organized crime including its role as a means of social mobility, no one has attempted to explain the horizontal dimensions of recruitment. That is, how a criminal group recruits new members from among its fellow immigrants or poverty class neighbors. Corsino's work provides the most in-depth look at this process to date.\"--Robert M. Lombardo, author of \u003ci\u003eOrganized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An outstanding work of sociologically informed social history, \u003ci\u003eThe Neighborhood Outfit\u003c\/i\u003e explains to scholars and students what they couldn't learn from \u003ci\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/i\u003e. Deeply researched, beautifully written and drawing on unique insights shaped by personal experience and immersion in the scholarly literature, this book is both made for the classroom and must reading for anyone interested in knowing how ethnicity has been interwoven with organized crime.\" --Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UCLA","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036824797527,"sku":"9780252038716","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252038716.jpg?v=1750932666","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-neighborhood-outfit-9780252038716","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}