SOC101 Lecture 24: Organized Crime
28 Nov 2016
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Organized crime (dr. philip j. boyle) (28 nov) How mafia has been understood and perceived in north america. Popular understandings of the mafia" reduce complex realities down to a highly simplified version of reality. It obscures the conditions that allow organized crime to thrive and harm that organized crimes case. It limits our ability to effectively respond to organized crime. Social problems are the outcome of the activities of groups making assertions of grievances and claims with respect to some putative conditions. Sociology of social problems should account for the emergence and maintenance of claims-making and responding activities. 11 italian immigrants were suspected, but not charged. Rumoured to be in a secret society of assassins coming from sicily. Considered as heroes on the right side of bad laws" by providing services people wanted. 1949-1950 us senator estes kefauver travels across the us hearing testimony about organized crime in the united states.
