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*Bynum, Timothy S., and Sean P. Varano. "The Anti-Gang Initiative in Detroit: An Aggressive Enforcement Approach to Gangs." Chapter 9 in ''Policing Gangs and Youth Violence'', edited by Scott H. Decker.  Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2003.
*Bynum, Timothy S., and Sean P. Varano. "The Anti-Gang Initiative in Detroit: An Aggressive Enforcement Approach to Gangs." Chapter 9 in ''Policing Gangs and Youth Violence'', edited by Scott H. Decker.  Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2003.
*::A very short history; text mostly focuses on the 1990s.
*::A very short history of the Purple Gang; the text mostly focuses on the 1990s.

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A list of key readings about Purple Gang.
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About the Purple Gang

  • Kavieff, Paul R. The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit 1910-1945. Barricade Books, 2005.
    Kavieff was a reporter for the Detroit News, see External Links.
  • Rockaway, Robert A. "The Notorious Purple Gang: Detroit's All-Jewish Prohibition Era Mob." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 20, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 113-130.
    Department of History at Tel-Aviv University


Generally about Organized Crime, but with Purple Gang chapters, articles, or sections

  • Morton, James. Gangland International: The Mafia and Other Mobs. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1998.
  • Nash, Jay Robert. Bloodletters & Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present. rev. and updated ed. M. Evans & Company, 1995.
  • Engelmann, Larry. Intemperance: The Lost War Against Liquor. New York: Macmillan, 1979.
  • Rockaway, Robert A. But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters. Jerusalem & New York, 2000.

Detroit Gangs

  • Bynum, Timothy S., and Sean P. Varano. "The Anti-Gang Initiative in Detroit: An Aggressive Enforcement Approach to Gangs." Chapter 9 in Policing Gangs and Youth Violence, edited by Scott H. Decker. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2003.
    A very short history of the Purple Gang; the text mostly focuses on the 1990s.