 Born in Tropea, Italy  Lived in a fishing village  Oldest son of a railroad worker  Eight brothers and three sisters  Came to the United states in 1917 by working a ship with two of his brothers  Anthony was the first to get involved in crime  Anastasia killed his first victim in a fight  He was convicted of the crime but beat it in a retrial when the key witness fled the country  He later spent time in jail for gun-possession charges

 During his time in prison he befriended other criminals and became active in the criminal underworld  Albert got the name the executioner when he became a hitman  It was said that he enjoyed watching his victims die  He was also involved in loan-sharking and gambling  He later became part of Murder Inc.  He was convicted of five crimes but never charged

 This organization handled contract killings for the five crime families of New York, using its own team of hitmen  Anastasia served as the "finger" or "fingerman" by ordering the killings  According to some reports, Murder Inc. was responsible for the murder of at least 63 men with some estimates running much higher  The organization fell apart in the early 1940s after one of the hitmen turned against the group

 After serving two years in the army, Albert became part of the Mangano Family which later became the Gambino family  He didn’t get along with Mangano so he had him killed and took control of the family  The US government was trying hard to bring him down  They revoked his citizenship in 1954 and he was brought up on tax charges the same year

 October 25, 1957 Albert was headed to the barber  He was shot five times in the chair by two masked gunman  It is said that Anastasia’s underboss orchestrated the killing when he convinced the members of the organization that Albert was a liability  He had a small and simple funeral with only a few friends and family members  His killers were never caught

 “On the Waterfront” was partially based on Anastasia  “My Brother Anastasia”  “Albert Anastasia- His Life and Death”-tv show  There were also novels written about the groups that he belonged to

I chose this theory because I believe that Anastasia’s deviant behavior was learned from those around him. There wasn’t much about his early life but there was nothing to suggest that he had any trouble at home or with his family. There was also nothing to suggest that deviance was a part of his upbringing. It wasn’t until he illegally came to the country that his brother got involved in these criminal acts. It could be suggested that that is what sparked Albert to do the same. But it wasn’t until he went to jail on a minor crime that he was acquainted with serious criminals. Once he met them he got involved in murder inc., became a hitman, and later the head of a major killing association. I think that that definitely points to differencial association because one could argue that these violent crimes would not have occurred without the outside influence of his brother and furthermore the criminals he met in prison.