University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses November 2015 The Shifting Structure of Chicago's Organized Crime Network and the Women It Left Behind Christina Smith University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the Criminology Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, and the Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons Recommended Citation Smith, Christina, "The Shifting Structure of Chicago's Organized Crime Network and the Women It Left Behind" (2015). Doctoral Dissertations. 453. https://doi.org/10.7275/7360908.0 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/453 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE SHIFTING STRUCTURE OF CHICAGO’S ORGANIZED CRIME NETWORK AND THE WOMEN IT LEFT BEHIND A Dissertation Presented by CHRISTINA M. SMITH Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY September 2015 Sociology © Copyright by Christina M. Smith 2015 All Rights Reserved THE SHIFTING STRUCTURE OF CHICAGO’S ORGANIZED CRIME NETWORK AND THE WOMEN IT LEFT BEHIND A Dissertation Presented by CHRISTINA M. SMITH Approved as to style and content by: _______________________________________ Andrew V. Papachristos, Co-Chair _______________________________________ Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Co-Chair _______________________________________ Robert Zussman, Member _______________________________________ Jennifer Fronc, Outside Member ____________________________________ Michelle Budig, Department Head Department of Sociology DEDICATION For my sister, who wanted me to write a dissertation about gender.