Why Does American Culture Glamorize Organized Crime?

"Because Prohibition was hugely unpopular, the men who stood up to it were heralded as heroes, not criminals. 'It was the start of their image as people who can thumb their noses at bad laws and at the establishment,' Finckenauer said. Even when Prohibition was repealed and the services of the bootleggers were no longer required, that initial positive image stuck."