What is the Ethnic Succession Theory?

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In the ethnic success theory organized crime acts as a “queer ladder of mobility” (Bell, 1953, p. 115), an alternative means of upward mobility for ethnic minorities who, because of discrimination or lack of skills, are temporarily lodged at the bottom of the system of reward distribu¬tion in a society.

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