CRIM 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Cash Flow, Extortion, Loan Shark
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Chapter 6: organized crime: the myth of an underworld empire (pp. Suddenly, in the 1970s and 1980s non-italians seemed to be everywhere in organized crime: cubans, colombians, chinese, russians, japanese, the irish, african-americans, canadians. All of the new groups were defined as racially, ethnically, or culturally homogenous. They were all described in terms of some type of culturally delineated family structure that resembled a corporate bureaucracy, but which was rooted in the foreign customs of their homelands. They were rabidily expansionist in their marketing strategies and were more violent , More secretive , and more closely knit than the traditional mafia. Organized crime was now a national security threat. It had become an international criminal groups threaten the security of all nations. It had become an international conspiracy of tightly organized foreigners destined to destroy both the u. s. and the new world order. Both the state and media had clear and compelling interest in promoting this mature.