CRM/LAW C131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Strongarm, Gambling, Thomas Schelling
13 Oct 2016
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Organized crime is a society that seeks to operate outside the control of the american people and their governments. It involves thousands of criminals, working within structures as complex as those of an large corporation, subject to laws more rigidly enforced than those of legitimate. Organized crime as political organizations seeking taxes" from other criminals (goodfellas- we were like the police for people who couldn"t go to the police ) Schelling saw them as people who had political taxation (groups who met to discus problems different crime group leaders) Mafia became used as an organizational term. Contributed to an analysis that is central to his theory (strain theory) how they appear to the norms of society. He provides an insight and link to these people. Six decades ago, robert merton argued that there was a series of ways in which americans responded to the extraordinary cultural emphasis that their society places on getting ahead.
