Personal Perception of Organized Crime Angelita Williams CJA/ 384 April 22, 2012 Jack Tandy Personal Perception of Organized Crime Organized crime has been around for many of years, yet some things have changed. Three things still remains the same and that is money, power, and loyalty. Within the society of organized crimes there are some things that one may or may not actually take notice to as a group of distinguished people. In this paper I will express my points of the perception that I have of organized crimes, while comparing some of the more actual information that is provided about organized crimes. In my own words, I would describe organized crimes as people who gather together to form a group of personalized opinions which are all the same in beliefs, wants and needs.
According to an FBI overview The Italian Mafia started as: underground secret society formed initially as resistance fighters against the invaders and to exact frontier vigilante justice against oppression. A member was known as a “Man Of Honor”, respected and admired because he protected his family and friends and kept silent even unto death. La Cosa Nostra is the foremost organized criminal thread to America society. Literally translate into English it means “things of ours.” (FBI, pg.1, 2012). The Organization has evolved and survived a number of invasions and exploitations by conquering armies in Italy.
If I was asked now what organized crime is I would answer in a different way. Organized crime is a group of people that have come together as one to commit illegal crimes. Each person will have their own part that they are assigned to when the illegal activity takes place. One could be the watch out, the talker, the gun holder and etc... Each person is help liable for their part in the crime and must carry through. If they do not carry out their portion of the crime correctly, they usually will have to answer to the president of the organization and that person is usually not the nice one.
Again, this is the writer’s personal perception of what organized crime is. The definition that is set by the chapter in the reading is that organized crime is a uniform criminal organization that is dominated by, however, is not exclusive to criminals males of Italian descent which is better known as the Mafia (Lyman & Potter, 2007). In 2005, the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) describe organized crime as a group of at least three people that engages in criminal activity that is ongoing and is
* Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Organize crime in my personal perception was a group of people two or more, engaged in planned criminal activity as a team. That was before a previews class I took in that class I understood that organized crime can have different shapes and it cannot be defined in a simple way. Organized crime has many elements and a variety of group dynamics. In reality most people perception about organized crime is not an accurate description to what really is.
Models of Organized Crime CJA/384 Models of Organized Crime Introduction There are many theories about the structure or models of organized crime syndicates. Empirical data for organized crime syndicates is limited, which enables many theories to exist. Two of the models include bureaucratic and patron-client organizations. The similarities and differences between the two will be discussed. After an explanation of the models, the importance of understanding organized crimes models will be outlined.
The politicians and law enforcement agencies need to remember that the gangs must be targeted and attacked as a whole, and not to single out a certain individual within the group. Gangs have chapters or cells all over the U.S. and abroad. Gangs tend to center themselves under a strict “street code”, that if you break, or interrupt, usually leads to some sort of attack or even taking someone’s life. The main objectives of gangs is to set out to earn money, or to maintain some means of financial gain, to help aid the gang and its members for whatever they desire. The other most important goal of a gang is to gain turf.
They were often referred to as Black Hand because of the ink of their hands after being printed for a crime (Mallory, 2007). Regardless, there is not sufficient evidence that supports that Black Hand was the first Mafia in America. La Cosa Nostra is made up of about twenty five Italian-American crime families. According to Mallory (2007) “Italian organized crime groups became very active during the Prohibition years of the 1920s, consolidated their power in the 1930s, and evolved into established criminal organizations known as the Mafia and Cosa Nostra in the 1950s and 1960s” (pp. 90-91).
This information also shows where and when individuals are most likely to become victimized. Victim surveys also provide more detailed information on crime events than did national data systems based on police records. These surveys would ask respondents to provide information on themselves, the offenders, the nature of the crime, and the context in which it occurred. While this type of information may have been available in local police files, it was not assembled nationally by agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a form that allowed easy access. Moreover, the detail available in police files varied substantially, depending on the willingness of police officers to ask victims systematically for the specifics of crime events.
Crime Causation and the Iceman CJA/303 February 23, 2010 John Seale Crime Causation and the Iceman Crime Causation; why was a crime committed and what led the individual to commit the crime? Criminologists have developed theories in order to categorize and begin to explain the criminal mind in order to determine crime causation. Previously, criminals were typically categorized through profiling or labeling, either done from the individual’s race, age, or gender. However this method does not assist law enforcement agencies to legitimately track or prevent the same types of crimes from reoccurring, so a new method was developed; crime causation. These theories are best illustrated through the application of notorious criminals and their deviant acts.