• DOI:10.1007/BF00227546
Corpus ID: 149631389

Wickersham to Sutherland to Katzenbach: Evolving an “official” definition for organized crime

@article{Smith1991WickershamTS,
  title={Wickersham to Sutherland to Katzenbach: Evolving an “official” definition for organized crime},
  author={D. Smith},
  journal={Crime, Law and Social Change},
  year={1991},
  volume={16},
  pages={135-154}
}

• D. Smith
• Published 1991
• Political Science
• Crime, Law and Social Change

The first governmental attempt to study organized crime occurred in 1929–31 under the auspices of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (the Wickersham Commission). That study is the prelude to a second study, undertaken in 1965–67 by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Observance. The circumstances surrounding both studies, their conclusions and dispositions are examined and compared. The theory impact on the latter study of Edwin Sutherland's 1939 creation of… Expand

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