Organized Crime in Russia and the Impact it has on Russia’s Way of Life :: Criminal Organizations, Mafia

Organized crimes also refer to criminal organizations; they could be transnational, local or it could be deeply rooted into a region where they perform as enterprises. This paper explains the real meaning of organized crime. In addition, the paper looks into all organized crime groups in Russia and looks into the effects it has on the economy. In addition, organized crimes have set up cartels that illegally trade arms and ammunitions that have compromised the security of Russians. This has made Russia become a brooding nest for terrorists and hard drugs traffickers. However, the Soviet Union has put all needed measures to reduce the number of organized crimes in Russia with the help of United States and the United Nations. Organized crimes have taken different names depending on the region but ‘Mafia’ is a universal name that relates to many organized groups in the world. Most of the regions has at one time had a mafia group; Sicily has had the Sicilian Mafia, United States have not been left behind either since it has had the Italian American Mafia and the Mexican Mafias in North America (Albanese, 2000, p. 409). Russia has had Irish Mob which was considered a very strong cartel involved with drug trafficking. Many organized groups have had a common thing that brings them together where they have had distorted psychologies and mind sets. Some of the organized groups are brought about by activities or practices they share among themselves (Albanese, 2000, p. 409). Some of the factors that have contributed towards formation of organized crimes or groups could be social factors. Mostly, organized crime groups need to have a social control over their community or a region. The other factor that contributed to formation of organized groups was as a result of economic influences (Albanese, 2000, p. 410). Most organized crimes need to have a control of economy of a region or the territory; the control of economic activities could be attained through corruption, coercion or through illegal praxis (Albanese, 2000, p. 410). The other factor that contributed towards formation of organized groups was political power. Organized groups are determined to attain power over a territory either through viole nce or corruption. The present organized groups are very different from traditional mafias since they are said to have an underground operation strategy and thus it becomes very hard for the government to control such formations. Presently, most of the Mafia groups have digressed from the traditional manners of management when the groups used to act against one another to working together (Albanese, 2000, p.