American Gangs of the Roaring Twenties, Al Capone and Chicago Mobs

Abstract

This study primarily investigates the appearance of mafia, Black Hand and Organized Crime in the American society during the Roaring Twenties. It provides a brief history that shows the genesis of gangs in the United States of America. It was characterized by different groups in which each one altered from the other. The United States became a wealthy nation with a high standard of living, several kinds of cars, large houses and a new way of living in which everybody wanted to get money whatever the means. This research emphasizes on the rise of organized crime associated with Al Capone. Therefore, such a study has a crucial importance in order to shed light on the way gangs like Al Capone’s arose in Chicago during the 1920s. The research approach adopted in this dissertation is a historical one. The findings from this research provide evidences that the emergence of organized crime in the 1920s lies behind several reasons one of them is the prohibition of liquor.