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Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally thought of as a form of illegal business, some criminal organizations, such as terrorist groups, rebel forces, and separatists, are politically motivated.
The early half of the twentieth century in the United States saw the continued rise of international criminal syndicates, and their continued growth in American cities. [7] [5] Plethora federal agencies were created to combat this growth of crime, whereas in the nineteenth century, the majority of investigations into organized crime had been performed by the private detective agency, The ...
Sources included are Carl Sifakis's The Mafia Encyclopedia, Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York and others. Online references also include Thomas P. Hunt's Mafia Chronology, John Dickie's Cosa Nostra history and The Chronological History of La Cosa Nostra in the United States: January 1920 - August 1987 compiled by the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division's Organized Crime ...
The Italian-American Mafia has long dominated organized crime in the United States. Each crime family has its own territory and operates independently, while nationwide coordination is overseen by the Commission, which consists of the bosses of each of the strongest families. Though the majority of the Mafia's activities are contained to the ...
On October 15, 1970, Congress enacted the Organized Crime Control Act in response to rising apprehensions from government officials and the American public over increasing crime rates and the proliferatetion of organized crime activity in the U.S. The Organized Crime Control Act was passed in the 91st United States Congress, which, at the time ...
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Works about organized crime in the United States (10 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Organized crime in the United States" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.