Negative Effects Of Organized Crime

Register to read the introduction… It is an inherent element in the world of organized crime. When you owe money to a legitimate company and you don’t pay, they send you notices and reminders with due dates and eventually it could go to collections. Organized crime sees violence as a way to avoid all of this. If you owe them money and you don’t pay, when they catch you they will beat you up or worse, make an example out of you and kill you. Basically violence is used as a means to an end for these people. The main problem of this is collateral damage, or the innocent bystanders that get hurt as a result.
When you mention organized crime, almost always people think you are talking about the Italian Cosa Nostra, or Mafia. In reality, La Cosa Nostra is just the Italians’ version of organized crime. Crime syndicates span the globe and even include the Al-Qaeda terrorists that brought down the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Three thousand innocent lives were lost on that day because a …show more content…
Many other games such as the wildly successful Grand Theft Auto series feature organized crime and loads of violence that is carried out by you, the star of the game. It appears that we are sending the wrong messages to the kids who play these games and it seems to be another example of society at large becoming numb to the affects of organized crime.
There are many other aspects of organized crime that exemplify deviance, however, the aforementioned characteristics stand out as the more serious influences on society. The impact of the criminal lifestyle, the perpetuation of violence and the virtual acceptance and glorification of this criminal way of life is leading our society down the wrong path. In the years to come we should strive to eliminate the glorification of gangster culture and do a better job of eradicating this societal