The origins and culture of certain neighborhoods can explain why gangsters come from unmistakably defined areas. It is where adolescents, through differential association, can take in the attitudes and skills essential to enter the world of adult organized crime. Social disorganization is the result of the combined effects of industrialization, immigration, and urbanization. These effects caused the development of deviant customs that once established can create their own albeit, extra-legal, forms of social control. As certain areas become poverty stricken, its occupants may begin to show hostility towards its leading equilibrating figure as this statue becomes their scapegoat to suffering. Members of organized crime have usually arisen from
