Double Crossed

Michael Woodiwiss is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of the West of England. He has written extensively on organised, corporate, and state crime. His books include Double Crossed (Pluto, 2017), Organized Crime and American Power (University of Toronto Press, 2001) and Gangster Capitalism (Constable, 2005).

• Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Dumbing Down: The Construction of an Acceptable Understanding of 'Organized Crime'Introduction 1. The Rise and Fall of Muckraking Business Criminality 2. America’s Moral Crusade and the Making of Illegal Markets Inset 1: The Origins of Mafia Mythology in America 3. Charles G. Dawes and the Molding of Public Opinion on Organized Crime 4. Al Capone as Public Enemy Number 15. Al Capone and the Business of CrimeInset 2: The Legends and Lives of Al Capone and Eliot Ness6. Americanizing Mussolini’s Phony War against the Mafia7. 'Organized Crime' in a Fascist State8. Gangbusting and Propaganda 9. Thomas E. Dewey and 'the Greatest Gangster in America'10. From Gangbusters to Murder Inc. Part II: Lies about Criminals: Constructing an Acceptable 'History' of Organized Crime Introduction1. The Genesis of the Atlantic City 'Conference' Legend 2. Consolidating the 'Conference' Legend 3. The Purge that Wasn’t4. The US Government’s History of Organized CrimeInset 3: Lucky Luciano and a Life in Exile Part III: Covering up Failure: Constructing an Acceptable Response to 'Organized Crime'Introduction1. Mafia Mythology and the Federal Response 2. President Richard Nixon and Organized Crime Control 3. Challenging the Orthodoxy 4. Sustaining and Updating Mafia Mythology5. From Super-Government to Super-Governments: The Pluralist Revision of Organized Crime 6. The Origins of the Anti-Money Laundering RegimeInset 4: Meyer Lansky and the Origins of Money Laundering History7. Informants, Liars and Paranoiacs 8. Seizing Assets to Fund the Crime War 9. Drug Prohibition and the Prison Gang Phenomenon10. Organized Business Crime: The Elephant in the Room11. Deregulation and the Rise of Corporate Fraud12. Fraud and the Financial Meltdown 13. Hiding the Failure of Organized Crime Control 14. Repression as Organized Crime Control Part IV: Selling Failure: Setting the Global Agenda on Drugs, Organized Crime and Money Laundering Introduction1. Losing Corporate Criminality from Transnational Crime2. Building Capacity 3. Americanizing the British Drug Control System4. Dumbing Down the International Response to Drugs and 'Organized Crime'5. Repression, Profits and Slaughter: The United States in Colombia and Mexico6. The Atlantic Alliance as a Money Laundry EpilogueNotesIndex

'Mike Woodiwiss has dedicated his career to unpacking the often toxic packaging surrounding the concept of organized crime. In Double Crossed, he focusses on the myths of organized crime, its social, economic and legal constructions and, most importantly, the architects and beneficiaries of this myth making'