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evolved from there. They wore unusual clothing and their haircuts were also odd (2001). They carried long swords, which were quite...

The Yakuza organized crime organizations of Japan are discussed in twenty five pages in an overview of history, participation, gan...

hatamoto-yakko cannot truly be seen as the forebears of that yakuza. Instead, the yakuza see the machi-yokko ("Servants of the tow...

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

the society was used to having it and thus would not simply sit quite while it was illegal. But, Prohibition is a good example of ...

house and steal, or mug someone on the street, in order to get money to get more drugs. This is not organized and is ultimately ve...

of organized crime is contained within legitimate businesses including small-scale trucking, automobile sales, and bakeries, and l...

In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...

province, " as well as eleven affluent landowners (FBI, 2008). He was taken into federal custody in New Orleans in 1881 and sent b...

contingencies of the contemporary world. The FBI Organized Crime Program utilizes a methodology designed to provide the maximum ef...

the don (also known as Godfather) at the top of the hierarchy, with sottocapos (underbosses), and caporegimes (soldiers) below. I...

public desires media to provide "fair coverage of the facts" of a case, so that it becomes possible to formulate an informed opini...

one knows what to do about it or how to control it. This paper describes the structure and relationships of organized crime, criti...

lives. They provide a community with a common definition for concepts like obligation and function. This paper considers the conne...

a positive view of the term. Social institutions, one tends to feel, are helpful things like libraries, fire departments, families...

concerning problems of our time. It has both direct and indirect impacts on the physical and philosophical infrastructural featur...

In six pages this essay profiles the life of organized crime boss and financial genius Meyer Lansky with a comparison that include...

more importantly, there is a great bond between the men who run these "families." Once a male is born into one, the chances are gr...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...

where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...

Postwar Japan's development as presented by John Dower in Embracing Defeat is examined in a paper consisting of five pages....

is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

was nine, his family emigrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which was a rough neighborhood dominated by Italian families (...

that context, organizational crime is aligned with academic integrity. Plagiarism would fall under that category. Falsifying docum...

In ten pages the Genovese crime family is examined in terms of history, and organized crime activities. Sixteen sources are cited...

prostitution, and gambling (Bolz, 1995). They also engage in money laundering schemes (Bolz, 1995). This latter focus is the crux ...

international scope quite considerably since the spread of Internet communication. In addition, international travel has itself gr...

to the Russian Mafia are members of an organization that has "hundreds of gangs" and its membership numbers in the thousands (Meye...