Murder Inc Book Compared to Gangs Today
classic movies like The Public Enemy (starring Jean Harlow and James Cagney), Scarface (starring Ann Dvorak and Paul Muni), and Little Caesar (starring Glenda Farrell and Edward G. Robinson) did the "gangster" film subgenre develop. Such movies fused fantasy and the real world, as the films were modeled on real mobsters, while real mobsters went to Hollywood. "Murder, Inc." may be rightly termed a simultaneous cultural phenomenon and criminological reality (Whalen, 2014). Bringing Crime under Control With the reduction in the number of investigators into organized crime, mafia gangs adjusted… Continue Reading...