![handle is hein.journals/trndorgc15 and id is 1 raw text is: Trends Organ Crim (2012) 15:1-12
DOI 10.1007/s12117-011-9140-2
Fifty years of research on illegal enterprise: an interview
with Mark Haller
Matthew G. Yeager
Published online: 11 June 2011
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Abstract This interview with professor emeritus Mark Haller, conducted in August
2010, discusses Haller's career and his research on organized crime. Haller studied crime
in Chicago and Philadelphia, in particular the business activities of Al Capone and
Angelo Bruno and their respective associates, concluding that illegal businesses have to
be distinguished analytically and empirically from fraternal organizations of criminals.
Keywords Mark Haller - Interview- Illegal enterprise - Organized crime - Chicago
PROFESSOR YEAGER: This is an interview with Mark Haller and I am Matt
Yeager. Professor Emeritus Mark Haller has been a long-time member of the
Departments of History and Criminal Justice at Temple University, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He is now in his 82nd year and is well-known in North America and
in Europe and other parts of the world as a researcher in the area of illegal enterprise,
otherwise known as organized crime, starting in the 1960's. And I'm delighted to be
here this morning [August 10, 2010] in Philadelphia to talk to him about his lengthy
career in this subject matter. Professor Haller, how are you today?
PROFESSOR HALLER: Living.
PROFESSOR YEAGER: Very good. Maybe we could start by a question. I take it
that your father was a plant or fruit botanist. Maybe you can start with a little bit
about your upbringing and where you were raised?
PROFESSOR HALLER: Well, at the age of seven the family moved to Bethesda,
Maryland, in a suburb of Washington, D.C., that was not yet built. A half a block
from our house there was a mile-long dairy farm. Most of the lots in the
neighborhood had not been sold yet. It was essentially wildlife, which I enjoyed. I
collected lizards and frogs and toads; and then a possum, and my favorite was
Jackie, a squirrel that rode around on my shoulder.
M. G. Yeager (E)
King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
e-mail: myeager@uwo.ca
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