Dwight Smith Jr: The Mafia & Conspiracy
Duration: 1 hour 15 mins
Share this media item:
Embed this media item:
Embed this media item:
About this item
| Description: |
Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy research project on Tuesday, 29th April at 5pm at the Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick Site) when Mr Dwight Smith Jr will speak about ‘The Mafia & Conspiracy’. Mr Smith’s paper will explore how the idea of the mafia and conspiracy emerged in America, developed and became entangled in very different contexts.
Mr Smith will describe the ideas, experiences, and events through which his book, ‘The Mafia Mystique’ (1975), took shape; the consequences of those events that have led to contemporary public understanding and use of ‘Mafia’ in the United States; and the consequences in a democracy of strategies that were developed for organized crime control. |
|---|
| Created: | 2014-05-09 09:51 |
|---|---|
| Collection: |
Conspiracy and Democracy
Conspiracy and Democracy |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Glenn Jobson |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Distribution: |
World
(downloadable)
|
| Keywords: | Dwight Smith; CRASSH; |
| Explicit content: | No |
| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 |
| Screencast: | No |
| Bumper: | UCS Default |
| Trailer: | UCS Default |
| Abstract: | Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy research project on Tuesday, 29th April at 5pm at the Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick Site) when Mr Dwight Smith Jr will speak about ‘The Mafia & Conspiracy’. Mr Smith’s paper will explore how the idea of the mafia and conspiracy emerged in America, developed and became entangled in very different contexts.
Mr Smith will describe the ideas, experiences, and events through which his book, ‘The Mafia Mystique’ (1975), took shape; the consequences of those events that have led to contemporary public understanding and use of ‘Mafia’ in the United States; and the consequences in a democracy of strategies that were developed for organized crime control. |
|---|---|
Available Formats
| Format | Quality | Bitrate | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MPEG-4 Video | 1280x720 | 2.98 Mbits/sec | 1.64 GB | View | Download | |
| MPEG-4 Video | 640x360 | 1.92 Mbits/sec | 1.06 GB | View | Download | |
| WebM | 1280x720 | 2.66 Mbits/sec | 1.47 GB | View | Download | |
| WebM | 640x360 | 699.56 kbits/sec | 384.28 MB | View | Download | |
| iPod Video | 480x270 | 501.53 kbits/sec | 275.50 MB | View | Download | |
| MP3 | 44100 Hz | 251.26 kbits/sec | 138.03 MB | Listen | Download | |
| Auto * | (Allows browser to choose a format it supports) | |||||