Organized Crime Websites

Features a database of organized crime families and notable historic events, photographs, mugshots, newspaper clippings, and official documents

Jerry Capeci, longtime reporter and columnist with The New York Daily News, shares his perspective on organized crime. Histories of the regional crime families, weekly columns, biographies of underworld figures.

Collection of articles on the U.S. Mafia and other elements of organized crime, focusing on New York and Chicago underworlds before and during Prohibition.

Articles, abstracts, book reviews and links with a focus on criminal organizations in the U.S. and in Germany.

Updates on organized crime from news sources around the world. Deals with black markets, government corruption, and inadequate government intervention.

UNODC is mandated to assist member states in the struggle against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism. Overview of criminal activity and U.N. efforts to combat it, also regional assessments of West Africa and Central Asia.

Updates on organized crime from news sources around the world. Deals with black markets, government corruption and inadequate government intervention.

Full text of the interim and final reports of the U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, 1950-1951.

Online discussion group for true crime writers, researchers. Site features a forum and polls. Forum message text is available as an RSS News Feed.

A 1995 discussion paper by the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority. Paper deals with Chinese (Triads), Vietnamese and Japanese (Yakuza) ethnic criminal entities in Australia.

Article discusses the history and activities of this coalition of New York-based gangs.

Article defines the topic, explores varieties of criminal rackets and the organizations engaged in them

Article on the reputed mob-affiliated banker linked to a dozen failed Savings and Loans.

Devoted to better understanding of crime scope and causes and to formulating policy to reduce the problem.

Provides information on worldwide trade in contraband. Covers organized crime activities and other outlawed revenue-generating activities.

News, investigative reports and authoritative links related to outlaw organizations, terrorist groups and official corruption in Eastern Europe.

Academic site featuring a searchable bibliographic database, articles on the evolving techniques of criminals and crime fighters, periodic newsletters, and a categorized collection of related links.

Professional association founded in 1984 to promote understanding and research. Site contains member list, book reviews, news, links.