Al Capone
January 16th National Prohibition became effective under the 18th amendment, which stated that American citizens were forbidden to sell or transport any intoxicating liquor. Prohibitionists believed that the sale of liquor was a social crime, the drinking of liquor was a racial crime and the results were of criminal actions. And quoted Lombroso and other criminologists to support their theory of liquor being the cause for the majority of criminal acts throughout the US. The 1920s saw a rapid increase in the American crime-rate. This was mainly owing to the illegal alcohol trade that had been developed to overcome prohibition. However gangs and crime syndicates did not begin with prohibition
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