Organized Crime And Criminal Behavior

Organized crime has been present in the history of the United States and can be traced back to the streets of the early 1800’s. Organized crime occurs when a group of people congregate together and plan to commit a series of crimes to make money, usually illegally. Organized crime groups have evolved over time from small rackets to grand organizations like the Italian Mafia. Crime particularly began to become prominent in urban areas during the prohibition. Organized crime is still just as visible today as it was back in the early 1800’s.

Various immigrants migrated to the United States. Many struggled to find jobs once in America. Why? Because whether they be Catholic or immigrants they suffered racism from whites. As a result, they couldn’t acquire any jobs to sustain their families. This led them to get involved in illegal crimes (organized crime). Many of these immigrants has a social philosophy that contributed to the rise of organized crime. This paper will analyze the social philosophy of immigrants and how it contributed to organized crime.

3. Characterize the initiation ritual. How do you think it compares to the “real” ritual – if such a ritual exists?

In this paper it was asked of us as a team to give an in-depth historical analysis of an organized crime group. With this class being about organized crime one would think to write about mobsters, but we decided to think outside the box. Even though when thinking of organized crime the first thought is The Italian Mafia and groups of that sort, one has to remember that organized crime comes in many different forms of organizations. From this class we were able to understand more on organized crime and who can be classified as an organized crime organization. Organizations that one would never really think of as having ties to organized crime may have some

Gangs and Organized Crime in the United States is on the rise. With the increase in turf wars, position and the financial gains, gang wars and Organized Crime are linked together in many ways. Within this paper, I will show how they are all tied together in. The M-13’s are the largest reported gang controlling large areas of our states. However, the largest area to which the MS-13’s control is within our own capital, Washington D.C. Their leaders rule all the gangs from inside El Salvador. I will discuss other gangs, and their ties into Organized Crime.

Organized crime has been an extremely prevalent subject over the past decades, whether it’s in the news, fictional stories or hybrid docudrama, this type of crime has been a steadily popular subject in the media’s eyes. It has provoked a stream of intellectual discussion on its nature and the impact of its diverse representations. Regardless of opposing views as to this relationship, there is a broad agreement that the media has a tendency to be selective and oversimplify. They tend to focus largely on individual pathologies and violence. Hollywood’s style of glamorizing things is commonly fused with dubiously obtained facts, which provide an energetic account of excitement and danger for society. This is because in today’s world, quick news turnover and profit growth drive media. Organized crime TV shows and movies have embellished and created popular stereotypical characters as well as criminal activities, to the point where the line between real and fake has become extremely distorted.

This is mainly because of the services the organizations provide, the fear they cause, the indistinct information available about them, and their national level of organization. In order to gain influence in a community, criminal organizations will provide services that the people within that community might want, for a cost: immunity from any actions taken against organized crime. In return for helping fund a politician, help a police officer with the bills, or even help the average citizen or businessperson overcome a problem. The only requirement is that in exchange for that service, the person must be willing to ignore the organization’s illegal actions (Ruth 114). Organized crime also utilizes fear to control the community by selectively fulfilling threats to give the appearance of the ability to fulfill any threats that the organization makes. The organization’s use the appearance of absolute power to cause continued loyalty, adherence to extortion schemes and other activities, and to discourage witnesses, while the selective nature of fulfilling threats keeps law enforcement and the general public from taking notice of the organization. Organized crime also remains hidden from the public eye because the public and the government only focus on one aspect of organized crimes revenues, which allows the organizations to profit from a broad range of criminal activities even while the government or public attempt to stop the revenues from one source, making it very difficult for the government to stop organized crime from being a profitable business (Ruth 115). The criminal organizations have also followed in the footsteps of industrial corporations and have grown to encompass territory throughout the country. The

1. believe that the mafia/ the mob is the most detrimental organized crime group to society, due to their resiliency. In the video we watched over the mafia, over one hundred people spanning multiple states got booked in a bust so large they had to use a military base for booking. This shows me that these organized crime groups are still functioning in the US today and committing crimes such as murder, corruption, racketeering, and extortion. These groups have survived for hundreds of years in the United States and abroad, this shows their power, determination, resiliency, and danger to society. I believe that prison gangs are the most powerful organized crime group to society due to their large criminal network and ability to control crime from inside of a prison. Prison gangs are so powerful and scary because they do not just commit crimes in prison, but also control street gangs. These leaders are so powerful that they can call shots and hots from inside supermax prisons where they are locked in their cells for twenty-three hours a day.

The topic of this paper is gangsters in organized crime can either work alone or work with other gangsters. When people commit crimes with other criminals, their personal ties to each other become strong when there is especially trust or there could be no trust, however, those ties can become strong at some point.

Social Institutions are groups of people who have come together for a common purpose. These institutions have formed a common bond. They have done research and have concluded by joining they can achieve more. Some of the social institutions in the local community are the Boys and Girls Clubs, the Cub Scouts, the Girl Scouts. There are generally five different types of social institutions. They are political, educational, religious, economic, and family. Each is filled with members of a common goal. Organized crime organizations have adopted the philosophy of social institutions. They

Organized crime is often described similarily by groups like government, the press and popular opinion. This similar definition is described through the knowledge people have gained from pop-culture movies, television shows, magazines, novels and stories from newspaper articles. Often these newspaper articles are written by authors who have little more knowledge on the structure of organized crime then what their favorite Sopranos episode dictates. It is extremely rare in today's society that somone who has an opinion on organized crime (which is almost everyone) has gained this opinion through first-hand experience (Finckenauer, p. 63). The problem with this narrow view of organized crime is that it fails to encompass the real

Organized crime groups are usually made up of members with similar ethnic backgrounds (e.g., Italian Mafia, Irish Mob) with the prime objective of seeking wealth and power. In the 1920’ during Prohibition, Organized Crime were instrumental in illegal alcohol sales. The success of Organized depends on an extensive peripheral network. That peripheral network involves bankers, politicians and law enforcement; ergo, these portals revolving around business activity protects the core of organized crime (Stratfor, 2010).

Criminal gangs are there to rule, they have been there in every community for a long time. Gang's intentions are to commit crimes. Gang leaders oversee extortion, order killings or smuggle drugs. This paper studies gang formation, why individuals join gangs and the negative influence gangs have to the society and the economy. The study focuses on some of the prominent gangs in the world today; it explains the activities of the Russian mafia and other gangs. This paper explains power struggles within gangs and gives out recommendations to solve problems associated with gang operations. This paper puts into perspective a study on factors influencing gang membership; the study employs personal interviews as a method, causal research design and ordinal scale of measurement. Prisoners in California state prison are the sample population. Structured proxy question are used, and observation to study an individual's race. The study focuses male prison gang members. Findings from the study indicate that the less educated an individual is the likely for one join a gang, from the study it is evident that gang members feel disregarded when formulating policies, it is clear that race is not a factor to gang membership and that most of the gang members come from dysfunctional families.

All of these points illustrate how organized crime violates social norms and the impact on families directly involved, but in the study of organized crime the impact is not only felt on that level but on a much broader societal level as well.

The social structure theory deliberates delinquency as a gathering of the person’s dealings with numerous groups, organizations, and process in the society. Any person irrespective of their prominence in life is likely to become delinquents if they continue with negative social affiliations. Every aspect of the society, social and economic must be viewed using the social structure theories to find the cause of crime and deviance. The social structure theories consist of four types which include social disorganization theory, anomie theory, differential association theory, and labeling theory. Several theories offer different answers to this delinquent of influential the key features of a social group.