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...for by Susan A. Nelson - April, 2001 This Paper Please Visit Introduction Gone are the days when the words, "organized crime" meant simply the Mafia, "The Black Hand," "La Cosa Nostra," or other such colorful euphemisms. Today, it seems more and more that essentially every race, and culture has a representative in an organized crime "family" (See Lyman and Potter, 2000). Organized crime today means just that - organized. These criminals are established. They understand how the system works and they are unified, and organized when using their abilities to thwart it. Today's organized crime it's not just for Italians anymore - everyone can play, if you've got what it takes. What Constitutes Organized Crime Today organized crime is simply "the illegal activity of people and organizations whose acknowledged...