Whitey Bulger Theory

Once the organized crime families were established they were the main contributors to the illegal “Bootlegging” of alcohol. During the 20’s there was a great deal of violent crimes. Most of them could be connected back to the organized crime families. Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone was a gangster who led illegal activities such as the smuggling and the bootlegging of alcohol during the prohibition. Even though he had a tough exterior he was a caring man he was the first to open up a soup kitchen in Chicago (hammer). Capone’s estimated annual revenue was around 100 million dollars. He had many men working for him such as Frank Nitti, August Pisano and Louis Morganno. He supplied Chicago with most of its alcohol. (Capone: the man and his era).

was held on July 23rd, 2014. This trial was held at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, MA. The trial was a jury trial, meaning that the people that decided if James was guilty or not were people brought to court by the United States of America. The judge of the trial was Denise Jefferson Casper, who at the time was forty-five years old, and worked for the court of law in this particular Boston district. The defense attorney for Mr. Bulger was a man named Hank Brennan. Hank Brennan was court appointed to Mr. Bulger, which means that he did not get his own attorney, but rather the state had to pay for him to have an attorney which is a law in the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The prosecuting attorney was Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly is now a very well known attorney in the country most notably for this trial. There were seventy-two witnesses called in against the like of James “Whitey” Bulger. One of the key witnesses against Bulger was going to be Stephen Rakes. This was a man that had seen Bulger commit his crime so he would have been a key witness. For some mysterious reason Stephen Rakes was murdered the day before he was going to get called in for the prosecution. Most of the evidence that was shown during the trial were murder weapons, about eight hundred-thousand dollars, more guns. The jury then found that only eleven of the nineteen deaths were due to him. The jury was unanimous and

Another misconception I had was that gangsters/mobsters controlled only corrupt policemen and judges when in fact, they controlled people at all levels of the government, occasionally even the president. Important characters like president James K. Polk, the Kennedy’s, and several senators had a relationship with Irish American gangsters that contributed to the politician as well as the gangster’s success. Their strongest relationships though, were with the police force. Becoming a policeman was encouraged by the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants because “who better to take on the dangerous, low-paying job than a Paddy?” (61) And so, Irishmen who often had grown up with famous mobsters ended up as the majority of the police force; mobsters not only gained more power in the local area due to this, but the stage was now set for corruption at all levels as well.

Crime is a timeless component of society. For as long as humans have existed among each other, crime has coincided. Throughout time, crime has taken many different forms, some much more subtle than others. Alphonse Capone, a first generation American-Italian born in Brooklyn, would dramatically redefine the nature of criminality. Al Capone was a notorious Chicago mob boss who played a crucial role in the Chicago Outfit as well as the bootlegging industry. Throughout his rise to power in the Chicago, Capone took part in many nefarious dealings that culminated in the creation of a undisputed “King of Crime” until his death in 1947. However, Capone is a timeless figure, his impact on Chicago and influence he’s had on the world of crime, continues to live on.

now the story behind him. What made him to be the most feared gangster in the city of Chicago? How did this kid from a rough neighborhood and no money grow up to have $60,000,000? I’ve always been fascinated with organized crime but had never been taught anything in school about it. This report gave me the chance to explore something interesting and also educational. The more I researched Al Capone, the more I wanted to learn about him. He may look like an innocent Italian at a glance, but he

2 The community in Los Angeles, in particular of those in minority communities felt forced into a situation that the only way for them to be taken seriously was for them to riot. Strain theory holds that crime is created out of desperation that communities have for not reaching societies goal, because they are not given the means of reaching it, thus they have to succeed in alternative ways. The Los Angeles riots reacted in alternative ways to the verdict of Rodney King, as they were displeased by the results. The Los Angeles police department and governmental officials did not give the community members much room to calm down after the news, and much worse added fuel to the fire. With the News of Rodney King’s verdict and the history of Police Aggression and governmental reaction, the community reacted in

I think we would all agree sixteen years is quite a long time. What if I were to tell you someone had been on the run from the law enforcement for that long before being caught? The name is James Joseph Bulger Jr. also known as Whitey Bulger. Whitey was one of the most notorious mob bosses in American history for his criminal reign in South Boston, Massachusetts. Whitey was a very violent criminal that had a rap sheet a mile long that included: murder, extortion, racketeering, and the list goes on. I am here to talk with you about the story of Whitey in his early years, his criminal reign in South Boston, and his life on the run from law enforcement for over a decade.

In the movie, “The Road from Crime”, Greg was a great example of how Merton 's Anomie and Agnew 's General Strain theory led them through a criminal lifestyle. The environment that Greg lived as a child was a prime example of the Agnew’s General Strain theory. He came from a society where crimes are viewed as a norm in his community. There are different types of circumstance that lead people and groups inside a community to participate in deviant behavior, such as harsh disciplines, child abuse, negative school experience, residence in economically deprived neighborhoods and more. However, Greg was a resident of an economically deprived neighborhood, which had an influence on his criminal background. According to Merton’s Anomie theory, offenders lead a criminal lifestyle because they are not able to accomplish their desire goal. Everyone does not have the same opportunities to become successful. Greg came from a society where people were looked down upon and did not have the opportunity to become successful in life due to their race. Greg was from a community where everyone in his society had an impact on one and other. For instance, he had a friend name Terry who inspired him to be the man he is today. As a kid, Greg looked up to Terry and tried to follow his footsteps. Terry and Greg were neighbors and that is one reason Terry was a role model to Greg. Greg admired Terry because he played basketball and was a “ladies man”. During, Terry and Greg childhood drugs were

His interest wasn’t so much why someone deviates but why the rates differed dramatically from one society to another. Merton also changed the concept to where there is an apparent lack of fit between cultures norms, about the apparent lack of success and the appropriate goals to achieve them. He believed the United States puts more emphasis on success, and anomie –strain becomes the explanation for high rates of deviant behavior in the U.S. compared with other societies, and also an explanation for the distribution of deviant behavior across groups defined by class, race, and ethnicity. The U.S., in fact, Merton sees as an example of a society in which success goals (often defined primarily in monetary terms) are emphasized for everyone in the culture, and people are criticized for not performing to their best ability.

Agent Connolly approaches Jimmy with the idea of "ratting" on the Anguilo family for exchange for F.B.I protection. Bugler is reluctant at first, then eventually agrees to inform for agent Connolly. Bugler sees this opportunity as an alliance and hence a beneficial business opportunity to further grow his own criminal empire as he soon begins to exploit the F.B.I. Based on Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill’s novel Black Mass, this Irish gangster movie follows the true events that took place in Boston from 1975-1995. When Bulger, tipped by Connolly that the FBI was closing in to arrest him, ran and remained a fugitive for 16 years. Scott Cooper, director of the film, creates this intriguing mix of classic gangster movie drama of Bugler’s biopic.

Anomie theory posits that US society focus heavily upon monetary success, but places little emphasis upon how this success is obtained. Strain theory proposals a very similar concept, but focus upon smaller units within society. It argues that while everyone aims to reach the middle class standard of success, people in some groups will be unable to achieve it via legitimate channels. These theories suggest that people how commit crime are trying to accomplish the

The movie ‘’ black mass’’ is an action crime movie based on true story about Whitey Bulger, a drug dealer at the southern area of Boston. Whitey Bulger is the tangled criminal of the history of Boston. He was once sentenced to Alcatraz, but then released. When he came out of the prison, he formed a small gang called it the winter hill mafia. He wasn’t satisfied with just being small and in charge of drug dealing and organized crime in a small part of the city. He wanted to control the whole city. Soon he met one of his childhood friends who was an FBI agent, with whom they made a deal to give him immunity in exchange for information about the Italian mafia in the city. For him this was a win-win situation where he got the FBI to fight his enemies and protect him while he running his gang. After the mafia leaders were taken down, he was in control of the whole city and his crimes increased. A new FBI agent was hired to investigate Whitey Bulger. He found out about all of his crimes, his cooperation with the IRA and his murders. Soon he was ordered to the jail. Everyone was caught and sentenced by the FBI except him as he escaped for 12 years before he was finally caught. His brother was the mayor of Boston. He was not aware of his brother’s business and soon after Whitey Bulger was ordered to be caught, he resigned as the mayor.

Racketeers and gangsters competed for business, spawning a wave of violence across the nation” (Hanson 35). No place was more evident of this than Chicago.

Robert Merton was a well educated individual big on learning societies focus and concerns, his career as a criminal theorist initiated at his start as a professor at the University of Columbia. His claims involved the why and how groups of people in America excluding other countries would involve the American Dream “wealth” as a mean to commit crimes trying to achieve the “goal”. In every city we could map out the social groups by crime rates and incident rates Nichols, Lawrence a sociologist explained “Robert K. Merton gained renown as a distinguished sociologist, especially in connection with the paradigm of 'structural-functionalism ' and he publicly self-identified as a 'structuralist. '” (Lawrence Nichols. Sep2016) That explained

Quinney (1964), “Because the validity of white collar crime as a form of crime has been a subject of severe controversy, the question of conceptual clarity has largely been ignored. Today, as a result, the meaning of the concept is not always clear” (p208).