LLCU 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Extortion, Ethnic Succession Theory, Political Machine
8 Nov 2017
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Organized crime was not imported from sicily but bred by the socially. Organized crime is descendent of the sicilian mafia. It evolved in a linear fashion beginning with the mafia in sicily colonies routinely franchised vice and crime for money/votes (machine politics) Criminal organizations have played an important role in the social differentiation. Emerging in the form of the black hand in north america(cid:495)s immigrant. Culminating in the development of the casa nostra in na(cid:495)s urban centres. Crimes was an instrument or a means to advance in society. Machine politics numerous sicilians (the killing was widely believed to be a mafia hit) in new. Orleans those in socially disorganized conditions in order to obtain wealth through in exchange for money and votes. Laws are inadequate to prevent immigrant criminals from terrorizing americans because life in jail was a great improvement over life at home.
