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In five pages this paper compares and contrasts organized crime in these countries with their counterparts in the United States and also considers whether or not organized crime infiltration of labor unions is global in scale or strictly an American phenomenon. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography. TGcosaglobe.rtf
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goods and services-gambling, loan-sharking, narcotics, and other forms of vice-to countless numbers of citizen consumers" (as cited in Hill, 2003, p. 8). The term Mafia has become synonymous with
organized crime not only in America but also throughout the world. It typically conforms to a conventional model described as follows: "A clear-cut hierarchy, well-defined role specialization within the
hierarchy, the exercise of control, authority and initiative from the top downwards, the attempt to establish monopoly control over illicit markets, the use of violence and the use of corruption"
(Xia, 2008, p. 1). Organized crime has been a mainstay in the socioeconomic underbelly of America since the days of Prohibition. Immigrants transported the customs associated with organized
crime to cities with high ethnic concentrations such as New York and Chicago. After Prohibition had been repealed, organized crime had to diversify into racketeering, money laundering, vending machines,
and prostitution. It also exerted its corrupt and covert financial influence over politicians and prominent business officials. Following the Second World War, the Italian/Sicilian branch of organized crime
in America known as La Cosa Nostra began to dominate other immigrant crime groups and featured a unified pyramidal family structure consisting of the don (also known as Godfather) at
the top of the hierarchy, with sottocapos (underbosses), and caporegimes (soldiers) below. In Japan, the dominant organized crime group is not La Cosa Nostra - it is the Yamaguchi-gumi or
the Yakuza (Finckenauer & Chin, 2006). It also differs in that the Yakuza is conducted within strict codes of conduct that prohibit violence against innocent bystanders and law enforcement
officials (Abadinsky, 2007). Its activities, however, are quite similar to its U.S. counterpart, and include prostitution, gambling, corrupting legitimate businesses, and drug trafficking (most notably, amphetamines) Finckenauer & Chin,
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