Wild Cowboys by Robert Jackall
Jackall tells how New York detectives pieced together a case of drug trafficking, money laundering, and murder, centered on a vicious Dominican gang known as the Wild Cowboys. Jackall's New York is a society with irreconcilable differences, fraught with self-doubt and moral ambivalence, where institutional logics often lead to perverse outcomes.
Wild Cowboys has a great deal to tell about the formation and operation of emerging "criminal enterprises" Moreover, and perhaps more important, this book is a fly-on-the-wall look at how the "forces of order" think and go about eradicating the opposition...Mr. Jackall is at his best when he fleshes out how police detectives single-mindedly overcame dead-end leads, sidestepped or neutralized competing units within the ranks of the police bureaucracy and parlayed fragments of accurate information to solve several particularly vicious pieces of Wild Cowboy handiwork...Anyone interested in the techniques of criminal investigation could not find a more comprehensive and readable primer than this book. -- Alan Mass * New York Law Journal *
This book is a hard-driving, factual account of the Dominican drug trade and the havoc it wreaked in New York City, particularly in Washington Heights and the Bronx, along with the frustrated efforts of law enforcement officials to deal with it. -- Bill Franz * The Register *
Jackall isn't afraid to draw conclusions and his story has an air of authenticity. This book makes a brutal and, for most readers, extremely foreign world seem discomfitingly close. * Publishers Weekly *
This book is a hard-driving, factual account of the Dominican drug trade and the havoc it wreaked in New York City, particularly in Washington Heights and the Bronx, along with the frustrated efforts of law enforcement officials to deal with it. -- Bill Franz * The Register *
Jackall isn't afraid to draw conclusions and his story has an air of authenticity. This book makes a brutal and, for most readers, extremely foreign world seem discomfitingly close. * Publishers Weekly *
Robert Jackall has done several years of fieldwork with New York City police detectives and prosecutors, among whom he is known as “The Professor.” He is Class of 1956 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Williams College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674018389 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674018389 |
| Title | Wild Cowboys |
| Author | Robert Jackall |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2005-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
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