Understanding Organized Crime: Forms, Hierarchies & Models

1. 1 Part 2Understanding Organized Crime

2. The Forms of Organized Crime • Standard Hierarchy • Regional Hierarchy • Clustered Hierarchy • Core Group • Criminal Network

3. The Forms of Organized Crime • Standard Hierarchy • Single Organized Crime Group • Led by Single Powerful Individual • Clearly Defined Roles • Identified Chain-of-Command • Strong System of Internal Discipline • Usually has a Name • Ethnic / Social Identity

4. The Forms of Organized Crime • Regional Hierarchy • Tightly Controlled Groups • Strong System of Internal Discipline • Clearly Defined Roles/Lines of Authority • Autonomy & Independence are granted to the local organizations. (i.e. O.M.G.)

5. The Forms of Organized Crime • Clustered Hierarchy • Number of smaller organized crime groups. • Coordinated activities / enterprises. • Established arrangements of managing their respective activities. (i.e. Mexican D.T.O.)

6. The Forms of Organized Crime • Core Group • Adapted to conducting criminal enterprise in a global economy. • Unstructured groups surrounded by larger networks of individuals engaged in crime. • Flat Organizational Structure (power is shared). • No ethical/social identities.

7. The Forms of Organized Crime • Criminal Network(discussed in Part 1) • Loosely organized, highly adaptable, fluid networks of individuals who organize themselves around an ongoing criminal enterprise.

8. Categories of Organized Criminal Behavior • Illicit Services: • Protection rackets, loan sharking, gambling, and prostitution. • Illicit Goods. • Conspiracy (to Commit Crimes). • Bribery • Extortion

9. Categories of Organized Criminal Behavior • Penetration of Legitimate Business • Extortion • Corruption

10. Cost of Organized Crime • Estimated $37 Billion in lost tax revenue to the U.S. yearly. • With corrupt public officials, tax dollars support less effective and less efficient government.

11. Mussolini's Mafia Purge • The Hennessey Incident in New Orleans • Landesco's Organized Crime Investigation • The Castellammarese War • Thomas Dewey and the Mob

12. Mussolini's Mafia Purge • The Kefauver Committee • The Apalachian Incident • The Valachi Testimony at the McClellan Committee • Robert Kennedy's Justice Department Task Force

13. Mussolini's Mafia Purge • Palermo's Maxitrial • Buscetta's Dilemma • The Pizza Connection • Giuliani's Mafia Trials • Louis Freeh and the New Mafia War

14. Models of Organized Crime • The Criminal Group • Continuity • Structure • Membership

15. The Criminal Group • Criminality • Violence • Power and profit

16. The Criminal Group • Protectors • Specialized Supporters • User Supporters • Social Supporters

17. Cressey's Cosa Nostra Theory • The boss • The consigliere • The underboss • The caporegime • Soldiers

18. Rules of Conduct • Be loyal to members of the organization • Be a man of honor and always do right • Be rational • Be a stand up guy • Have class

19. Organized Crime, the Media, and Popular Culture • Superficiality • Sensationalism • Creating reality