impeccably researched…insightful…[Griffin's] street-wise writing sounds anything but academic…After reading ‘Gaming the Game,’ you’ll never watch an NBA contest the same way again. – Las Vegas Review Journal
A gripping story…Griffin richly documents the Black Mafia’s organization, outreach and over-the-top badness. – Philadelphia Inquirer
a path-breaking book on the history of urban criminal groups…The book’s strength is the historical perspective that comes from examining the multiple activities and the important changes in the group during its thirty-year history. The book’s rich detail reflects the variety and quality of the sources that Griffin gained access to… Philadelphia’s Black Mafia is a careful, well-researched study that is an important contribution to scholarship and a revealing book to read. – Mark H. Haller, Temple University
impeccably researched…insightful…[Griffin's] street-wise writing sounds anything but academic…After reading ‘Gaming the Game,’ you’ll never watch an NBA contest the same way again. – Las Vegas Review Journal
A gripping story…Griffin richly documents the Black Mafia’s organization, outreach and over-the-top badness. – Philadelphia Inquirer
a path-breaking book on the history of urban criminal groups…The book’s strength is the historical perspective that comes from examining the multiple activities and the important changes in the group during its thirty-year history. The book’s rich detail reflects the variety and quality of the sources that Griffin gained access to… Philadelphia’s Black Mafia is a careful, well-researched study that is an important contribution to scholarship and a revealing book to read. – Mark H. Haller, Temple University
Thanks for visiting the “new” seanpatrickgriffin.net. The site experienced a server failure from which we have not yet been able to recover much site-specific material.
You’ll note there is essentially a two-year gap in material/posts, from June 2011 to September 2013 (i.e., the entire life span of the website!). We are still attempting to locate missing data, including and especially analyses of current (and often ongoing) events relating to my research agendas. Visitors of the former site will note we have recreated the same template, which most – including the host! – found incredibly user-friendly. Whatever pre-2013 materials are currently found on the site are simply imported posts from my various blogs. Importantly, please know these may include outdated links and/or embedded media, and in many cases there have been formatting issues as we have incorporated data from outside sources. Also note that as we find posts from the “old” site, these will be uploaded not based on importance but based on convenience. Please bear with us as we attempt in earnest to bring this interactive resource back to life. Thanks as always for your interest and support!
Frequent visitors of the “old” site will recall there was considerable coverage and related analysis of many gambling-related events (e.g., federal crackdown on offshore gambling sites and related U.S.-based money processing centers, the push for sports gambling legalization in several states and at the federal level, etc.). Among those topics and posts were substantive discussions […]
Readers of Black Brothers, Inc. (Milo, 2007) are intimately familiar with the surreal 2003 FBI probe into municipal corruption in Philadelphia’s City Hall, and know the complex investigation involved several Black Mafia personalities led by Shamsud-din Ali (formerly Clarence Fowler). Indeed the case, dating to a semi-unrelated probe into the drug-dealing rap group RAM Squad, […]
“impeccably researched…insightful…[Griffin's] street-wise writing sounds anything but academic…After reading ‘Gaming the Game,’ you’ll never watch an NBA contest the same way again.” Las Vegas Review-Journal In June 2007, the FBI informed the NBA that one of its referees, Tim Donaghy, was the subject of a probe into illegal gambling. Within months, the public knew the […]
