How Does Organized Crime Affect Society

I have done my research on "The Influence of Organized Crime on Society." Organized crime is a global enterprise, a well oiled business machine that reaches all around the world from Japan to Russia to North America. The purpose of my research is to show the influence of this crime on the everyday lives of people who are not involved in it. In North America there are so many organized crime groups it is hard to keep up with them and even harder to fight their influence, from the Sicilian Mafia to Hells Angels to Chinese Triads it would take an army to fight them all.

All organized crime groups operate in basically the same fashion, they are "nonideological, hierarchical, limited or exclusive in membership, perpetuitous, organized through specialization or division of labour, monopolistic and governed by rules and regulations." (Abadinsky, Howard) They are like the army with their hierarchy and have their own government that rewards and punishes the members. Punishment is necessary in the hierarchy of an organized crime group to
Previous generations had to worry more about the threat of war or invasion but in this modern time with the growth of international cooperation between organized criminals, that is the biggest threat to society. They impact all facets of a North Americans life, they increase our taxes, they increase the prices we have to pay for waste disposal and clothing. Instead of spending that money on low-income housing and hospitals, they have to spend it on the fight against organized crime. I believe that organized crime will never be destroyed, it will always be among society as long as society has demands for illegal products or services. To minimize the effectiveness of organized crime the government needs to focus all of it's power on money laundering. When they take away the possibility of criminals using that money, they will take away their