SOCIAL INSTITUTION IN ORGANIZED CRIME

Social Institution in Organized Crime

Social Institution in Organized Crime

Social scientists have learned that it is more important to look outward at the black market society in which organized crime proliferates. Organized crime thrives because of public acceptance that the best way to obtain desired goods and services is to deal with illegal sources. In such a society, confidence in legal sources has been exhausted. Respect for legitimate authority is based on deceit, and the profit motive commands highest esteem. As (Abadinsky, 2007) puts it, “The gangster image is both denounced and romanticized in contemporary American society” ...