Mobsters belonged to organized crime rings. They generally lived in large cities, and most were immigrants, or children of immigrants. Many of these criminal gangs were protected by urban ...

A massive crackdown has implicated millionaires, gangsters, and even police officers. Known as "dahei" (combat triads), the campaign has put the spotlight on organized crime and how it has ...

Short-barrel shotguns and rifles were banned in the 1930s; why would anyone, much less a senator, want them back?

Barry Levinson and the writer of 'Goodfellas' revisit the world of American gangsters, exposing the dispute that exposed the organized crime world.

Since then, intensifying violence between the two warring crime organizations has seen rival gangsters gunned down or stabbed ...

Judges and authorities were very often just as intertwined with organized crime as the gangsters being investigated. The Syndicate and the CIA The American government had an ambivalent ...

Yakuza are members of organized crime syndicates, the Japanese equivalents of gangsters or mafiosos. Membership peaked in the 1960s when numbers swelled to more than 180,000. In media, the yakuza ...

A massive crackdown has implicated millionaires, gangsters, and even police officers. Known as "dahei" (combat triads), the campaign has put the spotlight on organized crime and how it has ...