The Shelton's Gangs During The Prohibition Age

In the 20’s, the Mafia were the kingpins in the crime business, having taken advantage of prohibition of alcohol to make most of their money. The Mafia made most of their money by selling bootleg versions of alcohol, but they made money through various different ways, none of which were legal. They used many illegal activities to make money, most of which were in big plots to get the money, such as bribing and blackmailing politicians and officers, which was probably one of their biggest schemes to get money. They had many other, smaller, ways to get money for their organization.

Gangs had also become a big part of the 1920’s, they had a lot of say in went on round the towns they lived in. Gangs had a lot of control of how liquor got in and out of their towns “It was smuggled in from the seas off both the east and west coasts and brought overland from both Canada and Mexico.” (McNeill). Everyday people would smuggle liquor in from all over if it was hard to find by them. They would sell it to family and friends all over and speaks did the same thing.

Crimes nearly skyrocketed due to the bootleggers organized crime of transportation and sales to sneak alcohol. Bootleggers began their smuggling of liquor into the United States by crossing the Canadian and Mexican borders and ship transportation from the Bahamas and Cuba. The smuggling became even more riskier and more expensive once the Coast Guards started searching the ships from coast to coast but bootleggers had other sources of supply. Gangs began to take control of the bootlegging industry and go from state to state picking up more people. Al Capone was the leader during the Prohibition era of Chicago.

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The committee banished a group of four people which included Duchess, Uncle Billy, Mother Shipton, and John Oakhurst. The four set out together on route to a nearby town. Whilst on the way, John Oakhurst met a young couple who were going to Poker Flat to get married. Oakhurst knew the young man from before and had won money from him. The couple decided to stay with the group for a few days and took them to a nearby cabin they had found.

But Also they went to illegal saloons for alcohol .Another way for Americans to get alcohol in the 1920’s was by getting alcohol for medical purpose. Another effect of prohibition was bootlegging which was the transportation of alcohol. The word bootlegging came to use in the 1880’s to denote the practice of counseling liquor in boots. Since alcohol was in high demand many smugglers smuggle alcohol between the Canadian and the Mexican borders along the seacoast .Smuggling

“The Gangs of Victorian London” How are the gangs of 19th century England similar to the gangs of today? Gangs during the 19th century were vicious and they did a whole lot of terrible things like murder and kidnapping and any other crime someone could think of. The gangs of Victorian England are very comparable to today’s gangs due to the crimes they commit and the hierarchy in the gangs, some gangs of England include the 40 Elephants, the Peaky Blinders, the High Rip gang and the Scuttlers. The Forty Elephants were different than other gangs and were great at making raid plans and had a queen who ultimately led to their demise.

Even most Americans viewed the amendment as a challenge and proceeded to produce and consume alcohol anyway causing many law abiding citizens to become criminals themselves. The introduction of prohibition in 1919 created numerous issues in American society. Prohibition had been a long-standing issue in America, with groups promoting it since the late eighteenth century. The movement grew tremendously during the nineteenth century. When the United States entered World War 1 in 1914, there was a shortage of grain due to the long demands to feed the soldiers.

Speakeasies were businesses that sold illegal liquor. The gang leaders opened nightclubs with the best bands, talented dancers and lots of illegal alcohol. The name ‘speakeasy’ originated from the fact that people had to ‘keep it on the low down’ when talking about these illegal pubs yet the people who attended these speakeasies were not shy to be seen there. They were sometimes raided by police and the owners and people who attended were arrested, but speakeasies were so profitable that they continued to thrive. Due to the implementation of prohibition, some speakeasies ensured that the people drank illegal liquor from tea cups, in the event of a police raid.

The Mafia was an Italian organization in the 1920's. It was a crime network expanding across multiple states across the Us. It rose to power through an illegal liquor trade in a period when liquor was prohibited. The mafia was involved in drug trafficking and gambling. For example, if you owned a store, the Mafia would ask for twenty percent of all profit.

21 Oct. 2015. Identity A lot of people came to know the Dixon Bloods due to Rob Ford’s association with them and the video scandal of them smoking crack cocaine together. The Dixon Bloods’ turf is a sequence of buildings that are located along Dixon Road,

Over the course of history many mob bosses and gangsters have made history and left there marks in cities all over the world. Mobsters like "Lucky" Luciano or Al Capone but one of the most feared gangsters known for his violence is Dutch Shultz. Dutch Shultz real name is Arthur flegenheimer he was born and raised in the Bronx of New York on 8/6/1902. His father left his mother when he was fourteen. He was raised in German Jewish family.

The fourth time period the author looked was gangs in times of mass incarceration. During the incarceration times street gangs have been more assimilated into prison gangs. Many of the youth do not want the older men controlling them so they rebel. As the street gang's youths went to prison they had to join with the prison gangs or risked of being attacked. The street gangs and prison gangs unify which means that the collective association is close and have more resources. .

I think the key aspect of viewing gangs and the young people they influence is keeping in mind how they are inducted into gangs and how they are contained in them. Now, I have never experienced this system personally. I've only seen into this world through media; which, as we know, can be wildly inaccurate and rarely provides the full story. But I think that's where the importance of Levitt's credibility comes into play.

Why do gangs like the greasers, Socs, playboy and Ventures fight with each other? Some kids join gangs for protection and family and sometimes just for a fight. In the article called “ Rest in peace Doc” it’s about a boy named Doc also known as Desi. This boy had lost his family in an accident and him and his brother have the gang as a second family because the real family had left.