CJ 350 Organized Crime
Professor Brown
Course Intro
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Seminar Housekeeping
Discussions
Seminars/Alternate Assignment
Unit 3 Project
Unit 5 Mid Term Essay
Unit 8 Project
Unit 9 Final Project
Unit 6 Seminar
Unit 1: Organized Crime: Attributes
and Structure
• Unit Overview - This unit examines the
definition of organized crime, its
organizational structures, and how they are
similar to legitimate business. It also acquaints
you with the history and structure of the
American Mafia.
What should you learn in this unit?
• The various definitions of the term organized
crime
• The attributes identified by law enforcement
agencies and researchers as indicative of
organized crime
• The differences between terrorism and organized
crime
• The bureaucratic/corporate structural model of
organized crime
• The patrimonial/patron-client network structural
model of organized crime
Key Terminology
• What is a “made guy”?
Made Guy
• “Official Member of the American Mafia, which
of course does not exist except in movies.”
• http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter
m=made+guy
Chapter 1: The Definition and
Structure of Organized Crime
• The criminality of persons in Organized Crime
differs from that of conventional criminals
because the OC organization allows them to
commit crimes of a different variety and on a
larger scale than their less organized
colleagues can. Organizational affiliation
provides a form of credentialing and
networking that facilitates cooperation
between criminals that would not otherwise
occur.
Chapter 1: The Definition and
Structure of Organized Crime
• Contemporary OC can manifest two contrasting
organizational models, the bureaucratic/
corporate model and the patrimonial/patronclient network. These models represent two ends
of a continuum; criminal groups, if they are to be
defined as organized, can be located somewhere
along this continuum. The military represents the
quintessential bureaucratic organization, whereas
American Mafia groups fall into the patron-client
network model.
Attributes of Organized Crime
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Has no political goals
Is hierarchical
Has a limited or exclusive membership
Constitutes a unique subculture
Perpetuates itself
Exhibits a willingness to use illegal violence
Is monopolistic (similar, but slightly different)
Is governed by explicit rules and regulations
History of the Mafia
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• "Sicilian Vespers" revolution against the
occupying Angevins is traditionally viewed as the
birth of the Sicilian Mafia. There are no
contemporary mentions of the name "Mafia," a
term which comes into being hundreds of years
later, but the underground movement against
Anjou may be seen as the ancestor of a later
Mafia.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr1.html
1800 - 1900
• Movement from Sicily to US/murders/gang
activity, structure of buildings to house future
gang tenants.
• 1899/Birth of Alphonse Capone/AKA
Scarface/Brooklyn
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr1.html
1900’s
• 1902: Ignzaio Lupo/
• “Lupo is regarded as the leader of Manhattan
Mafiosi. He is actually an enforcer for
Giuseppe Morello, Black Hand extortionist and
owner of a cafe at 220 Elizabeth Street.
Morello's half-brothers Ciro, Vincenzo and
Nicholas Terranova, are considered top
lieutenants.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr2.html
1900’s
• 1910: Ignazio Lupo, Giuseppe Morello, Giuseppe
Calicchio, Giuseppe Palermo, Nicola Sylvestro,
Antonio Cecala, Vincenzo Giglio, Salvatore Cina
• “Judge Ray announces the counterfeiting
sentences: Lupo, 30 years, $1,000 fine; Morello,
25 years, $1,000; Calicchio, 17 years, $600;
Palermo, 18 years, $1,000; Sylvestro, Cecala,
Giglio and Cina, 15 years, $1,000. Lupo and
Morello begin sentences of hard labor at Atlanta
Federal Prison.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr2.html
1900’s
• 1913: Vito Genovese
• “Arrived in New York at the age of 16.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr2.html
1900’s
• 1920: New York
• “The bootleggers' curbside Liquor Exchange is
established along Kenmare, Broome, Grand and
Elizabeth Streets, a short distance from police
headquarters. Tommy Pennochio, an ally of Joe
Masseria, supervises the exchange. Bootleggers
can swap or sell their surpluses out in the open.
One of the first significant inter-gang cooperative
ventures of the Prohibition Era.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr3.html
1900’s
• 1923: Al Capone/Chicago
• “Capone sets up headquarters at Hawthorne
Inn, 4833 22nd Street in Cicero.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr3.html
1900’s
• 1939/Al Capone/Chicago
• “Capone is released from Alcatraz, but he is
mentally incompetent, the result of a lost
battle with syphilis.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr4.html
1900’s
• 1944: Joe Adonis/New Jersey
• “Longtime Brooklyn Mafia power Adonis
leaves his Brooklyn empire and moves to
Palisade, NJ.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr4.html
1900’s
• 1950: Estes Kefauver/DC
• “Kefauver Committee (U.S. Senate committee)
hearings into organized crime's influence on
interstate commerce begin. Committee will
hear 600 witnesses during its first year.
Kefauver will take the show on the road,
conducting hearings in 14 cities.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html
1900’s
• 1966
• “Absent for years, Bonanno suddenly resurfaces
and announces he is once again in command of
his New York crime Family. Gaspar DiGregorio,
who at the urging of Bonanno enemies on the
Commission has been fighting the leadership of
Bonanno's son, loses support of the Commission
and the rebellious Bonanno men.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html
1900’s
• 1975
• “Hoping to mend fences with his former underworld
associates on his return to the Teamster union presidency,
Hoffa schedules a meeting at the Machus Red Fox
restaurant outside of Detroit. It is generally believed that
Hoffa was to meet "Tony Pro" Provenzano and Detroit
mobster Anthony Giacalone. But some say Russell Bufalino
was invited instead. Hoffa calls his wife at 2:15 to say he has
been stood up. He is never seen or heard from again.
Investigators focus their attention on Provenzano and
Giacalone. Each has alibis for the date.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html#1960
1900’s
• 1985
• “The Federal Bureau of Investigation brings
charges against the alleged heads of the five
Mafia families in New York City.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html#1960
1900’s
• 1985
• “Gotti is believed to have masterminded the
assassination of "Big Paul" Castellano and his
driver/bodyguard Thomas Bilotti outside of
Sparks Steakhouse in Manhattan. Gotti
allegedly siezes leadership of the Gambino
crime family.”
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html#1960
Current Headlines
• “A New Jersey case against 34 reputed
underworld figures is based on hundreds of
wiretapped conversations, some of which
illustrate an alliance between the Lucchese
Crime Family and the Nine Trey Gangster set
of the Bloods street gang.”
• http://mob-news.blogspot.com/
Current Headlines
• “Brian R. Cohen, 61, of Buffalo NY, was
charged May 27 with money laundering and
gambling promotion in connection with a
New Jersey-based Lucchese Crime Family
online gaming racket.”
• http://mob-news.blogspot.com/
Current Headlines
• “Three Masullo brothers of Brooklyn were
sentenced May 25 to prison terms for
criminal conduct related to the Genovese
Crime Family”
• http://mob-news.blogspot.com/
Current Headlines
• “Paolo Renda, 70, brother-in-law of imprisoned
Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto and reputed
consigliere of the underworld organization,
disappeared on May 20, according to stories by
Paul Cherry of the Montreal Gazette and Adrian
Humphries of the National Post. Renda was last
seen at 3:15 p.m. His wife Maria reported him
missing at 6 p.m. Authorities suspect he has
been abducted and fear he may have been
killed.”
• http://mob-news.blogspot.com/
Question:
• How has organized crime adapted to
technology within their crime schemes?