History of Organized Crime: Final Test on 20th Century

This assignment is a final test on the history of organized crime, focusing on the connection between legitimate and illegitimate activities. It explores how organized crime groups maintain power and control, providing specific examples such as the mafia's investments in legitimate businesses to influence society. The assignment also examines organized crime in the 20th century, including the impact of prohibition, the rise of criminal syndicates like Al Capone, and the emergence of new criminal groups fueled by globalization, such as the Russian Mafiya. The document uses examples to support the analysis and provides references for further reading. The assignment highlights the evolution of organized crime and its adaptation to changing social and economic conditions.

Running head: ORGANIZED CRIME 1
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ORGANZED CRIMES 2
Ques 1- Organized crime network or groups are involved in legitimate and
illegitimate activities. Using specific examples, show how connection between legitimate and
illegitimate activities or organizations work to maintain power/control or position of Organized
crime in society or country/region.
Organized crime groups offers a wide array of unlawful services and goods. This type of
criminal activity usually victimizes companies through the application of theft, extortion and
fraud such as hijacking robbing goods, cargo trucks, committing insurance fraud/stock fraud as
well as bankruptcy fraud. Organized crime also oppress people by car theft ,shoplifting, bank
robbery art theft, gems, burglary, and jewelry robberies and heists, credit card theft, computer
hacking, embezzlement, identity theft, economic espionage, and securities theft . A good number
of organized crime usually defraud national, state governments through bid rigging of
community projects (Murakami, 2017).
Organized criminals operates illegally activities and then invest their crime profits in a
legal business, which in turn gives them money. Having obtained money ,the criminal groups
tend to influence society in their favor in order to create a conducive atmosphere for their
criminal activities. A good example is mafia group which is organized crime group which
focusses in the offering extra-legal protection(Dinev, 2014). The group also has a wide range of
investments such as night clubs, jewelry shops as well as clothing store. The mafia received
money from their illegal activities and then invest it in clean businesses this gave them power to
influence society through corruption and bribery in order to get want they want.

ORGANZED CRIMES 3
Ques2- During this term we have examined a number of issues, assignment have
explored some way that organized crime group operate, behave or are controlled. Organized
crime and briefly explore the topics as it relates to 20th century history.
The 20th century period was a great time of tense criminal activities. In 1920’s there were
the prohibition regulations in areas such as United states as well as across the globe(Dinev,
2014). This was a period of economic depression are were human suffering like never
experienced before (Newark, 2017).The forced numerous individuals people turn to crime, during
this period organized crime groups such as European crime syndicates America mobsters and
flourished, most citizens looked considered these groups as heroes. Criminals like John
Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde and Al Capone, were making headliners during this period.
The times have however changed and a new face of criminal gang is showing up. There
are emerging organized gangs who have come into existence due to large amount of immigration
in different Western countriesThe gangs have developed new and innovative ways to escape
from the law enforcement and in doing so they also expand their global outreach(Wright, 2013).
The wave of gang as changed and now citizens are facing non-traditional international criminals
operates beyond their home territory a good example is the Russian “Mafiya”.the group is
growing its criminal connection and illegal activities across many continents, this is mainly
fueled by globalization(Mark,2004).

ORGANZED CRIMES 4
References
Mark Galeotti(2004).Global Crime Today; The changing face of organized crime
Dinev, Y. (2014). Legal Considerations Of Intelligence Operations In Countering Transnational
Organised Crime. Information & Security: An International Journal, 31, 07-47. doi:
10.11610/isij.31
Newark, T. (2017). Empire of Crime. Havertown: Pen and Sword.
Siegel & Nelen (2008). Organized Crime: Culture, Markets and Policies. Springer.
Wright, A. (2013). Organised Crime. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.