Organizations like the Yakuza, 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, the Irish Mafia, etc, are part of many countries, to bigger or smaller fashion.

But to someone from those countries, what do you think was the original/historical cause for such organizations to develop?

My country - Portugal - has some degree of presence of these organizations but, to my knowledge, we never developed our domestic version of a crime syndicate. And we are not a bunch of choir boys. Something just kept things from forming. And that intrigues me.

So, what is the understanding of someone from a country where the organizations exist?

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    23·
    10 days ago

    Is there anywhere in the modern world that doesn’t have organized crime? Just because people ain’t being arrested for it doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t exist. It could mean they’re not being caught or own the law.

    • Tiral@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 days ago

      You’re right, it exists everywhere. Just because if isn’t Al LCapones everywhere, it exists.

    • qyron@sopuli.xyzOP
      1·
      9 days ago

      Organized crime, in my understanding, is not something that collapses with the death of a member or two or through a well placed intervention of authoritites. It has structure by itself, transcends generations, develops its culture, has a public, visible face, either for popular support or fear engineering.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      34·
      10 days ago

      Vatican City. (I know, I know “the church counts”. Hur-hur, very funny Lemmy)

      Maybe a few Pacific island nations, just by virtue of there not being enough people to support it.