Essays on Bootlegging

Al Capone was an enigma of the "Roaring Twenties." As a gangster, Al Capone rose to be the boss of one of the largest organized crime syndicates in American history at the time. The name of the gang was the Chicago Outfit (Pasley, 2004). Born as Alphonse Gabriel Capone, he perhaps serves as a representation of American society in the 1920s. A push towards liberalism meant that people let down their guard in enforcing the social fabrics that the American Society had hitherto been built on since the nation's founding. The desire for quick rich schemes rose exponentially because ...

Impact of Contraband, Bootlegging and Peddling on Inner City Small Business Success: A Millennial’s Perspective

Abstract Inner cities were the business hub for a long period of time. However, in the last 30 years, many large and small businesses have closed down their shops and moved out of inner cities to more affluent city suburbs. Especially noteworthy is the fact that small essential businesses such as grocery stores and drugstores are closing down their stores in inner cities despite a huge demand prevailing there. There are many reasons attributing to the problem. Contraband, bootlegging and peddling definitely have forced some of the small business owners to shut down their business. They are unable to ...

Community Resources in Corrections

While organized crime can refer to any hierarchically structured and excusive association of people governed by specific rules, who carry on criminal activities for financial gain and who show a willingness to use violent or other illegal act in order to perpetuate their existence; in the United States, organized crime is most commonly linked to the Italian-American mafia (Abadinsky, 2010). To be sure, although there are a number of organized criminal networks operation in or against the U.S. that include a range of ethnicities and national origins, such as the Russian mafia, the Mexican drug cartels, and Chinese triads; ...

Introduction

"The Great Gatsby" is an Australian-American film released in 2013 based on the bestselling novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald written in 1925. Directed by Baz Luhmann, "The Great Gatsby" provides the source of this academic discourse. The analysis of the sociological issue of deviance portrayed in the 2013 movie "The Great Gatsby" connects to the immoral actions of the era about ill-gained riches, social snobbery, racism, sexism, and excess in a time of national economic depression, immorality and marital infidelity, and murder.

Ill-gained Riches

The underpinning deviant behavior of the key player in this movie is Jay Gatsby who gains his wealth ...

[Author’s Name] [Institutional Affiliation] The characteristic that differentiates bootleggers and music downloaders is that the former usually acknowledge their practices as violations of the laws and regulation regarding the copyright and try hard not to be detected. Generally, these collectors of bootlegged material “recognize their own activities as breaking copyright laws or carrying social connotations of deviance” (Wiest, 2007). Thus, bootlegging is an activity that is more prevalent under the ground and is commonly done in record shops located back street (Wiest, 2007). Bootlegging on the Internet is increasing day by day and this practice ...

[Author’s Name] [Institutional Affiliation] In the contemporary world of today, there are a number of ways through which media is reaching the consumer. These mediums include CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray videos, video games etc. In addition to this, the consumers may easily download audio clips, video clips and other required material from innumerable sites that allow free download of such stuff. If truth be told, it was already envisioned that the users of the modern world will prefer digital delivery format instead of going to the shops and buying the materialized versions. In fact, there have been discussions ...

Introduction

The 1920s was not only roaring with dance and music but also gangstersism .During this period America was characterized by high level of criminal activities, especially gangsterism and bootlegging. Bootlegging is the smuggling of unlawful commodities. Gangsters took part in prostitution, bootlegging, and organized criminal groups and gambling .Despite the risks linked with gangsterism, it was a rewarding job. With an increase in crime during this period, the congress had to pass a law, which prohibited alcohol. This seemed as a possible solution to the problem, but proved to be like a drop of water in an ocean people who had been ...

The issue of mash up and remixes has been increasingly been affecting the music industry in the recent years. The phenomena does not involve the sufficient creativity that colors the musical world, instead, the mash up and remixing are made just too easily. This practice is considered bootlegging the artist activities because they don’t involve skilled and studied piece of work that follows the standards required in the real art. The DJs and other people involved in this practice just copy and imitate the work the original artist who only remains in a worse off situation. Therefore, the home ...

Crime is a rather multifaceted ideology with definitions spanning from social theory to commerce and law1. Any crime can be defined from any of these tenets however it is upon the intelligentsia to have an open mind as to the form of crime. However there is general agreement as to the fact that crime is any act outlawed that could lead to a punishment as prescribed by such law. The idea of organized crime brings to the fold a new meaning to crime. Organized crime can be defined as crime perpetrated by any grouping that could be international, nationwide or local that ...

Abstract

The paper discusses the life of Alphonse Gabriel Capone a famous and powerful crime mob operating in Chicago. His nicknames were Al Capone or Scarface his influence began in 1925 after the demise of his mentor James Torrio. He gained power through selling of illegal liquor and from there he ventured into other operations like prostitution, gambling, and racketeering to expand his influence. He also bribed politicians and legal authorities to enable him carry out operations without legal interference. However, after the valentine day massacre, which he is thought to be behind, he was pursued by the authorities who caught ...