Domestic Trafficking

Chapter 8 discussed domestic drug trafficking organizations. It distinguished the traditional and untraditional organized crimes. The problem of organized crime in the United States is nothing new. The drug trade has changed organized crime by creating new, violent, and more sophisticated immoral groups. Although these groups often clash, they mostly work together in order to generate a bigger profit. In this chapter, the booked examined some of the largest and most active organized crime groups in the domestic illicit drug trade.One gang discussed was the mafia. The Mafia, known as, La Cosa Nostra, which has been a source of controversy for years. Its roots are in Italy and Sicily during the mid- 1800s. The Mafia is common referred to as a domestic criminal organization, with two factions of traditional organized crime operated in the United States, American and Sicilian Mafia. Mafia families would meet to divide territory, choose rackets, approve new members, and arbitrate dispu tes between the families.During the late 196s and early 1970s, France became well known as a distribution shoot for fir an estimated 80 percent of the worlds heroin. Marseilles became the center of heroin laboratories that processed raw opium brought in from Turkey. Heroin was then smuggles into the United Stated by French Corsicans as well as Sicilian Mafia members. France is no longer considered a major producer of heroin sold on the U. S. securities industry Associations with known Mafia type is illegal, whether a crime is committed or not.Association also applies to the Camorra and other Mafia-type groups. Exile is the locations for convicted Mafiosi have been established I towns with populations of few than 10,000, and an unauthorized exit of the location shall result in imprisonment. Property and other assets are subject to confiscation. Telephone wiretaps are authorized on people hazard of belonging to Mafia-type organizations. The term omerta is defined in its most negat ive connotation as a conduct of noncooperation with public safety fficials due to fear. There is much(prenominal) controversy on what it is that the Mafia actually does. They argue that the evidence to support the existence of such a group is weak and open to other interpretations and that experiential search has failed to confirm the existence of such a dominant, complex, hierarchically organized criminal group. The historical evidence is sometimes weal and contradictory and empirical research conducted on organized crime fails to demonstrate the existence of the Mafias a single conspiracy.There is little doubt that some individuals in linked with the Italian rule criminal organizations in both the United States and Sicily have been involved in Large-scale drug trafficking. Outlaw Motorcycle gangs have created a historic aim in organized crime and in the drug trade. According to U. S. Treasurys Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, OMG have evolved into one of the most reprehensible types of criminal organizations, consisting of killers, psychotics, panderers, and accessible misfits. The Hells Angels, The Outlaws, The Pagans, The Bandidos are all notorious motorcycle gangs.