Comparative Persective On Organized CrimeEssay Preview: Comparative Persective On Organized CrimeReport this essayThis is a comparison paper on different Mafia groups throught the world. It touches on the japanese and US Mafia groups.IntroductionThe Mafia is a criminal secret society of men which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. An offshoot emerged on the East Coast of the United States during the late 19th century following waves of emigration. The mafia is active in several illegal fields, but also tending to exercise sovereignty functions — normally belonging to public authorities — over a specific territory. It is therefore a form of criminality implying some conditions: the existence of a modern state claiming the exclusive right to legitimate monopoly over violence; an economy that is free of feudal bonds; the existence of violent people able to operate on their own, imposing their mediation even on the ruling classes (wikipedia.com).
The Mafia has controlled everything from the street corner drug trade to the highest levels of government. Although glorified by movies and television, stalked by law enforcement officials, constantly targeted by their enemies and sometimes friends, mobsters live violent and very often brief lives. The Mafia at its core is about one thing — money. Still, there are secret rituals, complicated rules and tangled webs of family loyalty. Although the mafia originally started in Sicily in the early 19th century, organized crime has spread to other area’s such as Russia, Japan, China and many other countries around the world. Mafia is not just confined to Italy anymore as it may of one been.
Please find below a brief history of the Italian Mafia and the Japanese Mafia, and the similarities and differences between the two groups.The Japanese MafiaYakuza also known as Japanese Mafia are known in Japan as bÐ*ÐŒryokudan, a Japanese term for “violence groups”. The word yakuza means 8-9-3. Ya means 8, ku is 9, za is 3. it comes from Japans counterpart to Black Jack, Oicho- Kabu. The generally difference between the both card games are that in Oicho- Kabu the cards rate shall be 19 instead of 21. As you see, the sum of 8, 9 and 3, is 20, which is the worst hand in Oicho-Kabu. Its from there the name, yakuza, comes from, they without worth for the society. The yakuza took this name because the Ya-Ku-Za hand requires the most skill and obviously, the least luck in order to win (i.e., the hand is the worst that a player can receive based on luck of the draw, so only an expert could have enough skill to counteract his bad luck and still win with such a hand (web.telia.com).
The Yakuza are Japan what the mafia is to Sicily or the United States. Yakuzas origin can be followed far back as the year 1600, when men known as kabuki-mono (the crazy ones), were recognized by the local authorities. Their odd style of clothing, the distinct haircuts and relatively bad behavior easily got everybodys attention.
Italian MafiaThe Italian Mafia originated in Sicily in around the year 1865 AD, when some powerful Sicilians or Sicilian families engaged in violent and criminal activity. The island of Sicily, with a tradition of resistance to outside domination saw the rise of the Sicilian Mafia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Between 1925 and 1929, the Italian Fascists made an effort to get rid of the mafia and re-establish government control of violence, but prefect Ceasare Mori (the man putting the effort to effect), was dismissed when he targeted powerful people supporting the Fascist regime. Moris effort did replace Mafia control of the relationship between peasants and landowners with state control, but it didnt solve the problem. The Mafia restored itself when fascism fell and got a further boost when the Allied occupation in 1943 turned to local powers for help in governing.
Similarities and Differences of both Mafia’sThe Yakuza generate there income in a variety of ways similar to that of the mafia. Illegal gambling, prostitution, union exploitation and drugs are just some of the ways the Yakuza generates much of their income, although a majority of yakuza income comes from protection rackets in shopping, entertainment and red-light districts within their territory. This is mainly due to the reluctance of such businesses to seek help from the police. The yakuza has ties in big business such as construction and financial firms, as well as ties to many government and local police officials. Today the mafia is involved in a broad spectrum of illegal activities. This includes murder, extortion, drug trafficking, corruption of public officials, gambling, infiltration of legitimate businesses, labor racketeering, loan sharking, prostitution, pornography, tax fraud schemes, and most notably today, stock manipulation schemes. Though many of there activities are similar some are different.
During the formation of the yakuza, they adopted the traditional Japanese hierarchical structure of oyabun-kobun where kobun owe their allegiance to the oyabun. The code of jingi was developed where loyalty and respect became a way of life. Similar to the Mafia where the soldiers and capos are loyal the head or a boss of a family or the Capofamiglia, the yakuza show an even deeper rooted loyalty. The oyabun-kobun relationship is formalized by ceremonial sharing of sake from a single cup. This ritual is not exclusive to the yakuza it is also commonly performed in traditional Japanese Shinto weddings, and may have been a part of “sworn brotherhood” relationships. Yakuza groups are headed by an Oyabun or KumichÐ*ÐŒ (the family head) who gives orders to his subordinates, the kobun. In this
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The yakuza are not above giving orders to other people, they only obey and are loyal to those who are there – their master. The yakuza leader has the authority to take orders from the people at the same time. In the past yakuza were called ‘honorary elders’ of the family by the village elders and the head of the clan, although some yakuza still follow the tradition of the village elders at any given time.
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are so extreme, they have resorted to throwing stones. They have even had to attack other clans with their stone spears to deter others from going, and they even had to engage some of their own brothers in a fight.
The yakuza often even hold onto the YKM name and name of their boss from time to time in exchange for the loyalty they show for the yankees and the head of a clan. This relationship takes time to develop, and more emphasis must be placed on how to maintain a mutual respect when dealing with fellow yakuza. In some cases even the yakuza may be in a competitive position where it is more important to protect the integrity than to get them expelled or expelled. These relationships are more or less rooted in cultural differences, in the sense that a male in a rival household would not let a yakuza friend go at night to meet him when he is in a rival relationship with a female.
As a result, both men and women may get caught in an even more competitive environment. Some are actually afraid of being caught and are afraid of going to prison while others are not, and perhaps even more so when they are serving their time.
A few yakuza may even end up leaving their places or going to jail, often because of corruption or corruption resulting from abuse.
Yakuza are also very competitive and often take a very direct route to battle, especially when the opponent is a leader, who may be the one who has power over the group or who has power that they dislike. The leaders are often very close to each other, and this often means that some members get to be their only rivals rather than to fight with them.
Yakuza are quite different from all other clans, and many of them are organized by the clan with higher orders and more traditional leadership style.
Yakuza can usually be found on farms, and are mostly living along the coasts with their clan elders. In some cases a yakuza will have to work as much as 6 hours a day on the farms. One yakuza is likely