Yakuza

Organized crime; is a group of individuals that work together to illicit profit through illegal and sometimes often violent methods1 and two of the most famous groups are the Mafia and the Irish Mob. The two groups can be traced as far back as the 1800’s and had originally formed together for their financial gain to improve their lives and to protect themselves against the corrupt police officers. However over the years they have developed this infamous reputation tying both groups together, when there are substantial differences between the two. For instance one is based in the country of Sicily and the other was formed right here in the United States. Both groups have different origins, histories, systems and traditions thus making both

The Mexican Mafia was founded by Luis “Huero Buff” Flores in 1957 at Deuel Vocational Institution in California. The territory of the Mexican Mafia includes the US federal prison system and Southern California. The Mexican Mafia is involved in extortion, drug trafficking and murder in the prison system. The purpose of the Mexican Mafia was to show their Maya and Aztec heritage as well as protect its members from prison guards and other inmates. Now they focus on primary ethnic solidarity and control of drug trafficking. Federal

Even inside the Yakuza itself, there is a lot of judgement from trying to be the strongest and bravest, since everyone wants to show their dominance and show that they are not to be messed with, but also a lot of negative judgement. In most cases Yakuza gangs have some type of business with drugs and a good amount of members use, but if one would use a certain drug they also say things like “Even if you never touched the stuff, if someone started a rumor then that was it for you. Nobody wanted a speed freak as a friend.” When a bad rumor like this would spread then it was hard to be accepted anywhere, because society definitely did not want you and now everyone in the gang did not trust you. This would happen a lot, because it was just a judgemental environment and there was a lot of drug use in general.

Japanese crime syndicate Yakuza is a very large organization, with ties in the world of business and politics all around the world. Yakuza consists of many different syndicates, with each specializing in a specific category of crime, such as white collar crime and drug trafficking. Yakuza Have a very large presence in Asia and have proved to greatly undermine the sovereign power and integrity of Japan.

Prison gang/security threat groups are growing and impacting penitentiary's around the world in a negative way. The Aryan Brotherhood, The Guerilla Family, and the Mexican Mafia are three of many powerful and efficient gangs that flourished in a California prison. Each of these gangs has its own differences and have a long-term history that explains to the reader how these gangs started their record of criminal acts such as murder, drug trafficking, etc. Correctional staff main goal is to minimize the violence that come with the prison gangs. It is concluded that the best way to control gang violence is through separation of members and enemies. Whether if it's through transporting members to other prisons or through segregation. Studies have shown these findings may not always be effective because of the growth of prison gangs and the unique ways of communicating with other inmates in prison and on the outside world.

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

Local believed they could not trust Spanish law enforcement officials, and so they organized their own protection societies that eventually evolved into the Mafia(“United States History.”). When they immigrated to the United States they banded together of again because of a lack of trust for police, government, and their rights. When organized crime exploded the Mafias saw it as their chance to band together to make a

In Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa satirizes Japanese greed and corruption and portrays the growing influence of capitalism. During this time in Japan, the Yakuza clan was a very strong and dangerous group equivalent to the modern day mafia. The Yakuza clans’ ideals are relatable to two themes prominent in Yojimbo: greed and corruption, and rising capitalist influence. Kurosawa satirizes these two characteristics of the Yakuza clan through the use of mise en scene.

The fact that prison gangs are not visible to the public makes them seem unknown to the public eye, however the pose the same threats to the United States as all other gangs. Prison gangs are also often written off and forgotten about by authorities due to fact that they are incarcerated. “Due to their seclusion from the public and their minimal visibility, prison gangs are difficult to target and are thus frequently overlooked as threat actors, which enables them to commit various crimes without detection while covertly impacting every level of law enforcement” (FBI 2013 National Gang Report). This oversight allows prison gangs to conduct even more criminal activity. Some of the most well-known prison gangs are the Aryan Brotherhood, Mexican Mafia and the Prison Brotherhood of Bikers (FBI 2013 National Gang Report). One of the most powerful and prevalent prison gangs is the Mexican Mafia due to their influence on local street gangs by taxing all their illegal sales and ordering Surenos type gangs to help accelerate their cause by collecting gang ordered taxes, assaults, and murders (FBI 2013 National Gang Report). Many members of the Sureno gang could be controlled by comparatively few Mexican Mafia members. In exchange for working as the Mexican Mafia’s foot soldiers, they received protection should they ever become incarcerated.

Prison gangs are flourishing across the country. Organized, stealthy and deadly, they are reaching out from their cells to organize and control crime in America's streets. Law enforcement personal began to systematically monitor gang activities in the 1970's. Working together, their initial attempts were to identify only gangs which had some semblance of formal structure, a constitution, bylaws, mission statement, or some identifiable tenets guiding their activities. However, with experience, staff began to realize that even less well-organized groups could still pose significant threats to the security and orderly running of an institution. Many of these smaller groups

The article “Japan’s Criminal Underworld” summarize the history of Yakuza. The Yakuza is part of Japan’s organized crime syndicates, they are well-known as gangs or mafia group in the West part of Asia. Along the way the author’s described the true ancestors of the modern yakuza were the bakuto, or traditional gamblers, and the tekiya, where it’s considered to be street peddlers. Both groups did get alone and had their own small territory, the bakuto control over the busy highways and towns of old Japan, on the other hand, the tekiya aid the nation’s growing markets and fairs.

When people think of organized crime they think of the Italian mob and the Russian mafia. They are the ones that they see in movies and on television, and the ones that they hear about the most. However, they were created a couple centuries after their Asian counterparts, the Yakuza in Japan, and the Triads in China. These Asian syndicates were founded in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and consisted of merchants and other people in what was basically the middle class. They were just groups of poorer people who were just looking for protection or were trying to help other people. The first organized crime syndicates were a kind of Robin Hood, they helped the poor. They weren’t big or powerful, and they didn’t have large numbers. The

The country has an interestingly strong mix of formal and informal social control that keeps the crime rate statistically lower than both China and America. Due to the cultural value of “harmony, loyalty to tradition, intergroup dependence, and shame” (Burfeind &Westermann, 1991, 39-40) there is a strong sense of informal control to suppress deviant behavior or else you disrupt these values and bring shame upon yourself and everyone else part of your group and or family. This and many other forms of formal and informal social control make Japan the most efficient in controlling crime and crime

The Russian Mafia, also known as Bratva (Brotherhood) is a collection of various organized crime groups that originated during the former Soviet Union era. It is made up of underworld leadership in which engages in providing illegal goods and services that range anywhere from drugs and weapons smuggling to gambling and human trafficking. As in the U.S, there is no universally accepted definition of organized crime in Russia. However, the Bratva shares many basic characteristics with other well-known criminal organizations such as the Italian Mafia. Therefore, the definition that has been commonly used in the U.S will be fitting for the Bratva as well. The FBI defines organized crime as, "any group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities" (FBI). The Bratva falls under this definition with one of its many groups, the 'Vory v Zakone ', which translates to 'Thieves-in-law '. They are bound by a code of honor in which states that one is not to make a living on anything other than thievery, complete submission to the laws of criminal life, including obligations to support the criminal ideal and refusal to participate in all political activities (Omics).

The name ‘Yakuza’ originated from a card game and dates back to when the group consisted mostly of laborers known as bakuto. The Yakuza as it is known today was built from these groups and began organizing into families, who adopted the boss-henchman relationship that is prevalent in Japanese culture.