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    Katie Dobersztyn English IV Accel Ms. Gutierrez History Personified History the Mob Boss Arundhati Roy personifies history as a mob boss‚ with Baby Kochamma‚ Chacko‚ Inspector Thomas Matthew‚ Comrade Pillai‚ even Vellya Paapen acting has the mob boss’s thugs‚ who maintained order and came to collect what you owe when you don’t follow the rules. When you owe the mob money‚ the boss’s thugs will come for you. Roy uses the personification of owing the mob boss to show what happens when you

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    one gang to choose from. For example in Arizona alone there have been several gangs that the Arizona Department of Corrections have validated as a threat in and outside of the prison they include‚ Dine’ Pride‚ Warrior Society‚ New Mexican Mafia‚ Old Mexican Mafia‚ Boarder Brothers and The Aryan Brotherhood just to name a few. Each gang has their own set of “guidelines” as to the type of member they will accept. They also have their own rules on how each member must behave. If an inmate meets the

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    typical Italian mafia stereotype has some truth since our mafia was strongly influenced my Italy. During the mid-1800s the Sicilian mafia grew exponentially in Italy‚ but this quickly came to an end. At the end of the 19th century the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini attacked the crime organizations of Italy (Mafia in the United States). Sicilian Mafiosi decided to escape to America to continue their illegal ways. In just New York in went from 20‚000 in 1880 to 500‚000 by 1910 (Mafia in the United

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    attacking carbabinieri barracks‚ which led to their demise. After this‚ bandits began getting captured. The mafia would work with bandits when organizing kidnappings and such‚ and then turn them in when they felt they didn’t need them anymore. Consequently‚ the mafia were the ones that had information about these men and helped the police to get these bandits arrested. Therefore‚ the mafia was the stopping force against the bandits following WWII. Giuliano‚ after his defeat with the separatists

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    "Capone to Kefauver: Organised Crime In America." History Today Jun. 1987: 8. History Reference Center. Web. 14 Mar. 2014. Mayo‚ Mike. "Mafia‚ The ("Cosa Nostra‚" "The Syndicate‚" "The Commission‚" Organized Crime)." American Murder (2008): 209-212. History Reference Center. Web. 19 Mar. 2014. Witwer‚ David. "The Rise Of Gangsters." Cobblestone. April 2006: 8-10. History Reference Center

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    For many people in the radio they only hear the famous genre that gets played on the radio‚ but having an open mind to listen to something new like the Norteno Chicano gang music might grab your attention. The Norteno Chicano gang music’s categories as “underground music”‚ because not any single radio station plays it how other genres get played. The Norteno gang music is a new world to a lot of people and gets played in narrow places that not many people know about. If you’re a Norteno gang music

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    Alphonse Capone one infamous American Gangster during the 1920’s .Al capone was a gangster during the prohibition era the boss of the chicago outfit‚ he was in operations of bootlegging‚ prostitution‚ and other organized crimes.Capone early life was not related to what he was going to grow up too‚capone was a criminal and payed the consequences. Capone was the fourth from a nine immigrant family who came to the us for a better living from italy‚ he was born January 17‚ 1899‚ Brooklyn‚ New York City

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    Mob Museum This is our newest museum in the city and is located in Downtown Las Vegas. It is located on Stewart. This is two streets over north of Fremont and at the end of Third St. The building that the museum is housed in was an old federal building that was renovated for the purpose of hosting this unique museum. Like it or not‚ Las Vegas has had a history of organized crime in its past‚ much of this has been captured by Hollywood movie studios‚ but here in the Mob Museum‚ it is the real history

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    MODELS OF ORGANIZED CRIME Joseph Webb CJA/384 August 18‚ 2014 Earnest Whitten Organized Crime has been a hot topic for many years. Cinema loves gangster style mob bosses who rule their organization with an iron fist. Cinema usually shows a certain type of organized crime‚ like a syndicate family or ruler. Organized crime can actually be broken down into two different models; Bureaucratic and Patron-Client Organizations. Two Theories Bureaucratic organizations operate more like businesses

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    Organized crime refers to criminal activities organized by powerful group of individuals for profit gain either locally‚ nationally or internationally. These groups engage in illegal activities for various reasons‚ some for the money‚ fame and luxurious lifestyles while others are in it for political reasons. Some are d forced to join these groups for protection from other criminal gangs. The earliest form of organized crime was the pirate groups who stole the merchant vessels and took part in the

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