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A 6 page research paper that investigates how the career of criminal Mickey Spillane of the Westies mob fits with criminological theory. "The Westies" is a term used to indicate an organized crime gang, which was made up of predominantly Irish Americans, and operated out of an area on Manhattan's West Side known as "Hell's Kitchen." One of the principle leaders of this group was Michael "Mickey" Spillane (no relation to the crime-novel author of the same name). The description of Spillane given by T.J. English in his text on this gang, The Westies, perfectly illustrates the criminological theories that have been applied to organized crime, as discussed by Winfree and Abadinsky in their text Understanding Crime. No additional sources cited.
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Manhattans West Side known as "Hells Kitchen." One of the principle leaders of this group was Michael "Mickey" Spillane (no relation to the crime-novel author of the same name). The
description of Spillane given by T.J. English in his text on this gang, The Westies, perfectly illustrates the criminological theories that have been applied to organized crime, as discussed by
Winfree and Abadinsky in their text Understanding Crime. Organized Crime Theory The work of Francis Ianni in the 1970s drew upon the both the "ecological theories of the Chicago
School (invasion and succession) and the "anomie tradition (opportunity structures) to explain how different ethnic groups tend to succeed each other as the controllers of organized crime (Winfree and Abadinsky
225). First of all, when a particular group experiences financial success regarding criminal involvement, it tends to also open up the group to legitimate opportunities. As the social strains placed
on the group subside, the group moves on, leaving organized crime, which creates an opportunistic niche for the next immigrant group to succeed them (Winfree and Abadinsky 225). According to
Ianni, the Irish were succeeded were succeeded, in many of the nations large cities, by Jewish immigrants, but this pattern does not appear to have held true for Hells Kitchen,
where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between neighborhoods and crime appear to be particularly relevant to the Westies
and their ties to Hells Kitchen. For an organized crime group, such as the Westies, to survive, it must incorporated some form of "institutionalized process for inducting new members
and inculcating them with the values and ways of behaving of the social system" (Cressey, as cited by Winfree and Abadinsky 147). According to Donald Cressey, effective recruitment into an
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