Sociology 3366F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Descent Ii, Extortion, Making Money
23 Feb 2021
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Very important to look at because they manipulate and control financial markets, traditional institutions such as labour unions, they infiltrate into legitimate industries such as construction. Its much larger than people anticipate: involves drug, people, violence, public officials, intimidation, extortion, murder (for hire, in order to maintain their operations) Media is where attention comes from, so we see different images and assumptions. Males of italian descent, males of irish descent. Many of the big groups (italian, irish, jewish) Outsiders that came into canada/north america and their groups started from there. The more we learn about organized crime, the more confusing it gets. The term organized crime was not normalized until the 1920"s (even the. Mafia: even the mafia was seen as an ethnic group of low class italians. Emerge more from researching the organized crime groups. A definition can be developed based on.
