Enterprise not ethnicity: an interview with Dwight C. Smith Jr

Woodiwiss, Michael

Abstract

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Dwight C. Smith Jr. was conducted during 2012 and 2013. It discusses Smith’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his early career in U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence in the 1950s and New York State organized crime intelligence in the 1960s, through to his debunking of Mafia mythology—particularly in the influential book, The Mafia Mystique (1975)—in the 1970s and then to his development of the spectrum-based theory of enterprise as a potentially more productive way of addressing the problem known as organized crime.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jun 27, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 6, 2019
• Journal: Trends in Organized Crime
• Print ISSN: 1084-4791
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 41-55
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-014-9216-x
• Keywords: organized crime, organized crime control, enterprise theory, alien conspiracy theory
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/845291
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12117-014-9216-x
• Additional Information: Additional Information : The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12117-014-9216-x