(Shelly, 1998) Graft is split into two categories: clean and dirty. Clean graft is victimless crime such as bookmaking, and prostitution rings, cockfights, dogfights. Clean graft also comes in the form of paying off forgiveness of minor violations such as parking tickets and alcohol violations. Dirty graft is money offered to cover up murder, rape, armed robbery, or drug trafficking. The main line between clean and dirty graft is that clean graft usually ensures a victimless crime. (Organized Crime, 2001).
Data on organized crime are limited, and as a result, a number of diverse interpretations have surfaced regarding the basic issues of size and control. (Lampe, 1999) The organized underworld may be a national problem, and only more research can provide a complete analysis of the issue. (Lampe, 1999).
With many dimensions that are important from a sociological stance most organized crime is founded on a dimensional viewpoint. When organized crime leads to large profits it can lead to trampling free enterprise and conventional law- enforcement. Insights on organized crime place conclusions into perspective. (Incairdi, p.110) Second, the functions and operations of organized crime are customarily referenced with terms such as Mafia, Cosa Nostra. (Incairid, p. 110) These terms are often misrepresented. Finally, the functional structure of organized crime can be.
looked at differently, from an "organizational" level. The structure of organized crime in the United States can be described (Incairid, p.110):.
1. There is a nationwide alliance of at least twenty-four.
tightly knit "families" of criminals.
2. The "members" of these "families" are Italians or.
Sicilian by birth or national origin.
3. Each "family" has a boss who directs the activities of.
its "members.".
4. The "families" are linked together as a member of La.
Cosa Nostra.
5. The leaders of the more powerful "families" combine as a.
