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Bernstein, Lee. "The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in U.S. Culture and Politics, 1946-1961," The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in U.S. Culture and Politics, 1946-1961, University of Minnesota, July 1997.
This investigation of Senate crime committees, regional crime commissions, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Prominent criminologists, ethnic and union lobbying groups, and popular TV programs and non-fiction, shows how stereotypes of prohibition-era gangsters helped shape cold war anti-communism, drug policy, labor union regulation, and immigration restriction. In response, upwardly mobile white ethnic groups sought to end this residual association of the foreign-born with criminality. In addition, many criminologists discredited colleagues and politicians who argue that biological predisposition explained crime. Despite these critiques, sensationalized gangsters influenced understandings of ethnic, racial, and class divisions as they shifted during the 1950s.
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