Social Organized Crime Perspective

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

Organizational crime is criminal actions taken by large groups such as companies, businesses, or organizations. White-collar criminals are responsible for more deaths per year than all murderers combined (Barkan, 2012). Overall, white-collar criminals are less easily detected by law enforcement than street criminals.

The only way to take down organized crime will be if the government is aware of the roots of why the syndicates form, because what would a country be without being aware of all of its citizens? Though the American Dream may be something that doesn’t reverberate with today’s generations, it should be kept in every American’s hearts. “The future will be determined by the young”, said Eleanor Roosevelt, “and there is no more essential task today, it seems, to me, than to bring before them once more, in all its brightness, in all its splendor and beauty, the American

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

46. This strategy by and large includes the utilization of genuine organizations with high money turnover, as fronts for lawbreakers to launder the returns of wrongdoing. The sorts of organizations utilized are by and large eateries, bars, correspondence focuses and different sorts of retail shops. The unregulated casual part likewise gives culprits the chance to procure little organizations, for example, second-hand auto dealerships, bars, eateries, gaming houses or land organizations, all of which give secrecy or chances to cover unlawful increases from their criminal birthplace.

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.

The second theory I would like to discuss is the Strain theory. The strain theory basically states that crime breeds in the gap, imbalance, or disjunction between culturally induced aspirations for economic success and structurally distributed possibilities of achievement. The theory assumes fairly uniform economic success aspirations across social class and the theory attempts to explain why crime is concentrated among the lower classes that have the least legitimate opportunities for achievement. It is the combination of the cultural emphasis and the social structure which produces intense pressure for

One of those is the alien conspiracy theory. The alien conspiracy theory suggests the reasons for criminal actions are because of outside influences. It proclaims that criminals have moved to the United States and started a criminal organization here (Rogers, 2011). This theory is supported by the movie makers in America. Most movies on organized crime portray the leaders of the organization as foreigners. They walk, dress, and act a certain way. The alien conspiracy theory posits that organized crime gained prominence in the 1860s in Sicily and that Sicilian immigrants are responsible for the foundations of U.S. organized crime, which is made up of 25 or so Italian-dominated crime families. Also known as the La Cosa Nostra, the families are composed of wise guys or made men and number about 1700 members (Lyman & Potter, 2007). This theory also suggests strong family bonds. Because each member is of the same nationality it is easier to influence him to join the organization. This is prevalent in organized crime. If one family member is a part of the organization, the outside influence and loyalty may be enough to coerce others into the business. Another theory applicable to criminal behavior is the rational choice theory. This theory occurs when people choose to commit a crime after weighing the benefits and consequences of the action. Examples of this theory include a man who discovers

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.

Organized crime groups are continuously looking for ways to profit from legitimate as well as illegal activities. It is no surprise that organized crime groups play a large role in lucrative illicit activities such as prostitution and in the pornography industries. Some people such as journalist Jack Anderson (Lyman, 2015) believe that the pornography industry is controlled by organized crime groups; however, this is debatable and also controversial. One thing is certain however, any business that produces a lucrative amount of cash is highly susceptible to organized crime influences. This can be seen in the pornography industry. With money producing opportunities such as porno industries, pornographic book stores and adult film making, it is not surprising to see organized crime members involved in behind the scene activities. For example, bookstores offer an opportunity for organized crime groups to skim money off the top, thus increasing and decreasing the tax liability (Lyman, 2015). Legitimate stores offer a place for money laundering as well as disguise other illegal activities that may be occurring within the store. It also creates a legitimate place to launder money from illegal activities such as gambling, prostitution and loan sharking.

Crime is a social construct because it is an idea that is established by a society to control the behaviors of the people within the society (“Radical Concept of Crime”). What is considered to be criminal varies within different area and cultures and even time. Things that were legal two hundred years ago are illegal now. For example, in the 18th and 19th century when slavery was allowed in America, there were a lot of people who saw nothing wrong with it because they had been socialized to accept and justify it. If you ask most Americans now about slavery, they would say that it was a tragedy or that they just cannot understand how it happened. This is because we are now being socialized to think of slavery as wrong. Even though many citizens