The Black Hand: A Study in Moral Panic

Robert M Lombardo

Global Crime, 2004, vol. 6, issue 3-4, 267-284

Abstract: This analysis reviews the history of Black Hand extortion in the City of Chicago and argues that the societal response to Black Hand activity constituted a moral panic. In addition, special emphasis is given to the institutional legacy of society's response to Black Hand crime. It is argued that the moral panic created by the Black Hand contributed to the social construction of the alien conspiracy theory, which has dominated beliefs about the Mafia and organised crime for almost a century

Date: 2004
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