“The Original Gangsters Podcast: True Crime Tales” features Detroit-based authors and crime historians Dr. James Buccellato and Scott Burnstein interviewing former organized crime associates, law enforcement, as well as actors from The Sopranos and more. Produced by Roberto Boschian.

Episodes include:

• Boston George Jung, Inspiration For The Movie ‘Blow’

• Former NY Mob Boss Michael Franzese Talks About Life in the Mafia
• Former Hells Angel President George Christie Talks About Four Decades of Outlaw Bikers, Multiple Prosecutions and Attempts on his Life
• Former Mafia Killer Anthony Arillotta Talks About Life in the New England Underworld
• Hoffa And Detroit Organized Crime Talk With Retired FBI Agent Greg Stejskal
• Jimmy Hoffa 44 Years Later: What Really Happened?
• Former Mob Captain Larry Mazza Discusses Life In The Mafia And Working With Scorsese on ‘The Irishman’
• Actor Robert Funaro Talks His Role On Sopranos & The Irishman
• Retired FBI Agent Jack Garcia Talks About Infiltrating The Gambino Crime Family
• Detroit Hip Hop Roundtable With DJ Godfather, DJ Salam Wreck, Mikey Eckstein
• New Details Into 1985 Mob Style Execution Of Three In Metro-Detroit

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“Obscene Remainders: Neoliberalism and the Gang Crisis Narrative,” in The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology 

“Sign of the Outlaw: Liberal Boundaries, Social Banditry and the Political Act,” in New Political Science

James A. Buccellato, Editor Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice: A Reader

Organized Crime In Detroit: Forgotten But Not Gone CBS Detroit

Gangs Of Detroit: Examining Youth Violence CBS Detroit

“Detroit is Experiencing an Epidemic of Gang Violence” Current Controversies: Gangs

“The Detroit Drug Pipeline” in The Detroit True Crime Chronicles   

“Detroit with Big Sean, Danny Brown” Documentary—Watch James Buccellato’s appearance on VICELAND television. The episode examines the relationship between street violence and the urban music scene in Detroit.

Read the Oakland Press interview “Familial curiosity led to professor’s Detroit mob history”

Listen to James Buccellato’s recent interview with CBS Detroit about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.

Listen to Stephen Henderson’s interview with James Buccellato on WDET Detroit.

 “Killing Jimmy Hoffa” Documentary—James Buccellato is interviewed as an expert on Detroit organized crime in this documentary which uses exclusive interviews, never before seen news footage and photographs, and reveals the real story of the day Jimmy Hoffa died.

Read the Macomb Daily interview “Author to bring story of Detroit mafia history to Ferndale”

Listen to James Buccellato discuss Early Organized Crime in Detroit with Detroit’s own Slack Jaw Punks.

See James Buccellato’s research cited in the following texts:

• Gangs and Organized Crime by George W. Knox et al. (2018: Routledge)
• Minds, objects, and persons – narratives of perpetrators of violent crime by Angelo Ridge Dias (2017: University of Witwatersrand)
• Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State by Andrew Pepper (2017: Oxford University Press)
• Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins by Mark Mattern (2016: SUNY Press)
• Keeping It Real: Dick Hobbs’ Legacy of Classic Ethnography and the New Ultra-Realist Agenda by Steven Hall and Simon Winlow in Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control edited by Georgios A. Antonopoulos (2016: Springer)
• What is the Nexus Between Organized Crime and Gangs? in Journal of Gang Research by Stephen L. Mallory et al. (Fall, 2015)
• Pandering to Prejudice: The ‘Yardie’Problem of the 1990s as a Media-Constructed Moral Panic by MG Warenycia (2015: Ryerson University)
• Revitalizing Criminological Theory:: Towards a new Ultra-Realism  by Steve Hall and Simon Winlow (2015: Routledge)
• Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool by Jonathan Ilan (2015: Palgrave)
• Crime and poverty in Detroit: A cross-referential critical analysis of ideographs and framing by Jacob, J. Nickell (2014: Illinois State University)
• The Mafia: A Guide to an American Subculture by Nate Hendley (2013: Greenwood)
• Diary of a Motor City Hitman by Christian Cipollini (2013: Strategic Media)

Lecturer: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ)

Senior Lecturer: Irvin D. Reid Honors College, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI)

Certified Gang Specialist: National Gang Crime Research Center (Chicago, IL)