Research Catalog

Title

Wild cowboys : urban marauders & the forces of order / Robert Jackall.

Author

Jackall, Robert.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.

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Details

Description

368 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

In this bloody urban saga, Robert Jackall recounts how street cops, detectives, and prosecutors pieced together a puzzle-like story of narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and murders for hire, all centered on a vicious gang of Dominican youths known as the Wild Cowboys. Jackall chronicles the crime-scene investigations, frantic car chases, street arrests at gunpoint, interviews with informants, and knuckle-breaking plea bargaining that culminated in prison terms for more than forty gang members. But he also tells a cautionary tale - one of a society with irreconcilable differences, fraught with self-doubt and moral ambivalence, where the institutional logics of law and bureaucracy often have perverse outcomes.

Subject

• Wild Cowboys (Gang)
• Gangs > New York (State) > New York
• Organized crime > New York (State) > New York
• Dominican Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions
• Dominican Americans > New York (State) > New York > Economic conditions
• Dominican Americans > Economic conditions
• Dominican Americans > Social conditions
• Gangs
• Organized crime
• Bandenkriminalität
• Jugendbande
• Fallstudiensammlung
• Crime > New York (State) > New York
• New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.)
• Hispanos

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-356) and index.

Contents

A quad in the Bronx -- A death on the highway -- Fort "Yo no sé!" -- Uptown murders -- Cracking the case -- Lenny's boys -- The takedown -- Downtown justice -- Urban badlands -- Troubled order.

ISBN

• 067495310X
• 9780674953109

LCCN

97011739

OCLC

• ocm36746360
• 36746360
• SCSB-2130706

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library