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Born in Brooklyn January 17, 1989
8 siblings
Parents were Italian immigrants
Father was a barber and mother was a
seamstress
Attended a strict parochial Catholic school
Expelled from school at age 14 for hitting a
female teacher in the face
Worked at candy store and bowling alley
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Was influenced by gangster Johnny Torrio at a
young age which led to his affiliation with
small gangs including the Junior Forty Thieves
and the Bowery Boys
Then he joined the Brooklyn Rippers and then
the more powerful Five Points Gang based in
Lower Manhattan
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First crime committed was when he was 14 he struck a
female teacher in the face which led to his expulsion
from school
First arrest however, was a disorderly conduct charge
while he was in the Five Points Gang
Murdered two men while in New York
Gang etiquette meant no one admitted to hearing or
seeing a thing so Capone was never tried for the
murders
He hospitalized a rival gang member then gang leader,
Frankie Yale, sent him to Chicago so things could cool
off
Disorderly Conduct- Unruly behavior constituting a minor offense
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Capone started to work for his old mentor, Johnny
Torrio and he became a bootlegger
When Johnny was shot and left Chicago, Capone
took over the outfit and gained control of
speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses,
brothels, horse and race tracks, nightclubs,
distilleries and breweries at a reported income of
$100,000,000 a year
Corrupt Chicago mayor William "Big Bill" Hale
Thompson did dirty business with Capone
Capone planned the St Valentine’s Day Massacre
which took place on February 14, 1929 killing 7
members of a rival gang
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On March 13, 1931, a federal grand jury met
secretly on the government's claim that in 1924
Al Capone had a tax liability of $32,488.81
Capone was later charged with twenty-two
counts of tax evasion, totaling over $200,000
The judge sentenced him to eleven years,
$50,000 in fines and court costs of another
$30,000
His bail was denied
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IRS and Police had accounting records from a
raid on Hawthorne Hotel
The accounting records were the only evidence
found. This is why it took so long to finally
arrest Al Capone
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“This American system of ours, call it
Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you
will, gives each and every one of us a great
opportunity if we only seize it with both hands
and make the most of it.”
“You can get much farther with a kind word and a
gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
Got the nickname “Scarface” after being attacked
by Frank Gallucio getting three slashes to the face
In photos, Capone hid the scarred left side of his
face saying the injuries were war wounds
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He was the first to open soup kitchens after the
1929 stock market crash and he ordered
merchants to give clothes and food to the
needy at his expense
Baptized with the name “Alphonsus Capone”
Capone’s specially-outfitted, bullet-proof
Cadillac was seized by the U.S. Treasury
Department in 1932 and later used by the
government as Franklin Roosevelt’s limousine
Capone’s drink of choice was Templeton Rye
whiskey from Templeton, Iowa
The Differential Association Theory is the best sociological
theory to describe Al Capone’s criminal acts. Al Capone was
influenced by criminals like Johnny Torrio when he was just a
young boy. He grew up being exposed to gang life and many
different crimes. If Capone wasn’t influenced by Torrio he might
not have become such a notorious gangster.
When Capone started in small gangs, he did small crimes like
disorderly conduct. He then kept moving up in the ladder to more
powerful gangs. The entire time he was in each gang he was
influenced by the other gang members and the gang leaders. He
learned the ways of the gangs and how to do each crime without
getting caught. In the more powerful gangs he did more serious
crimes like murder. He also became a bootlegger with his old
mentor Torrio. Here the things that Torrio taught him came into
play and he became one of Torrios’ best bootleggers. In
conclusion, Al Capone’s behavior is best classified under the
Differential Association Theory.
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If Al Capone was still alive today, I believe he
should be punished. He was a bootlegger, he
murdered people, owned speakeasies,
committed tax evasion, and he did many other
crimes. The crimes that he did were very
serious and are unforgiveable. If someone did
these crimes in todays society they could
possibly be given the death penalty. If he were
alive today, he should face the consequences of
his actions and be given life in prison and very
high fines.