ORGANIZED CRIME

Organized Crime

Organized Crime

Question 1

John Joseph Gotti Jr. was born on 27 March 1940, in the Bronx, in New York. His parents are John Gotti Sr. and Philomena "Fannie" Gotti. It is the fifth child among a family of 13 children when Gotti was twelve, he and his family move to, Brooklyn. Despite his disdain for the rich, he was attracted by the world of mobsters and easy money. He created 12 years with his brothers, Peter and Richard, a band that brings to the mafia in the area (Abadinsky, 2004).

Theoretical Perspective

Cultural Deviance Theory which is part, of social structure theory goes into a lower-class subculture and how they create a different subculture with its own set of rules and values to survive. Walter Miller's focal concern promotes illegal or violent behavior. The lower class subculture emphasizes, trouble making, toughness, street smarts, excitement, fate, autonomy dependant and immediate gratification.

Analytical Application

Gotti, "Johnny Boy" at the time, bad in school, has earned his individual education in the street. Often missing is a dunce whose case seems so insoluble that the teachers do care for them more. In early summer 1954, Gotti is involved in a theft from a construction site, during which he toes crushed by a cement mixer. He spent the rest of the summer in the hospital and will remain lame for life. Above all he is not cooperating with police. He left school at sixteen and joined the band of Fulton-Rockaway-Boy, a band of teenagers who steal cars and various commodities. He then joins Angelo "Quack Quack," Ruggiero, whose nickname came from the fact that he never stopped talking and Wilfred "Willy Boy" Johnson.

In 1966, Gotti went into the Mafia, and then headed by Carmine and Daniel Fatic. They operated from a room, the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club in Queens for one of the leaders of the Gambino family, Aniello Dellacroce. The complete Gotti's criminal career began then; the family prospered and moved to a beautiful apartment in Brooklyn, where they had a fourth child, Frank. The Gambino was recruited as a bully and soon entrusted him with the systematic looting of the materials used in the construction of John Fitzgerald Kennedy airport until it was discovered and sentenced to three years in prison in Lewisburg (Abadinsky, 2007).

With only thirty-one, Gotti became the boss of the band Bergin and with Dellacroce in prison, began to make frequent visits to Carlo Gambino, Don Carlo, whom he addressed with the utmost respect. In 1975, John Joseph was sentenced to four years in prison for robbery, and during the two years, he spent in prison in Green Haven attended classes in Italian culture and made a lot of gymnastics.

Cultural Deviance theory and Differential Association Theory are also interconnected to Gotti's rough childhood. This theory deals with the formation of a subculture caused by Gotti's environment. The stresses caused by living in slums required Gotti to learn "street smarts" and techniques to skillful "trouble making" so that he could acquire the ...