caa a22 4500 445294760 CHVBK 20180317142538.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20101201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12117-010-9094-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12117-010-9094-9 Lombardo Robert Department of Criminal Justice, Loyola University, Chicago, 111 E. Pearson Street, 60611, Chicago, IL, USA aut The hegemonic narrative and the social construction of deviance: the case of the Black Hand [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Lombardo] This essay examines Black Hand crime in the city of Chicago from 1892 to 1931. The Black Hand was a crude method of crime in which Italian immigrants and others were extorted for money. This research argues that much of what we know about Black Hand crime is a media construction. The method of analysis used to conduct this investigation involved the content analysis of 280 newspaper accounts of Black Hand crime. This essay also examines the institutional legacy of the Black Hand phenomenon and argues that the inappropriate linking of Black Hand crime to the Sicilian Mafia led to the development of the alien conspiracy theory, forever linking organized crime in American society to the Italian immigrant. This essay concludes that the media play an important role in defining the societal construction of crime. The findings also support the social constructionist argument that definitions of deviance are subjectively determined. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Black Hand nationallicence Mafia nationallicence Newsmaking criminology nationallicence Social constructionism nationallicence Hegemonic narrative nationallicence Trends in Organized Crime Springer-Verlag 13/4(2010-12-01), 263-282 1084-4791 13:4<263 2010 13 12117 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-010-9094-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-010-9094-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lombardo Robert Department of Criminal Justice, Loyola University, Chicago, 111 E. Pearson Street, 60611, Chicago, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Trends in Organized Crime Springer-Verlag 13/4(2010-12-01), 263-282 1084-4791 13:4<263 2010 13 12117 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer