The media has played a huge role in this "glamorization" or organized crime. The various organized criminal "families” particularly that of the Italian-American "Mafia", which for some reason most Americans solely associate with the term "organized crime", are organized differently. More so, they are able to engage in criminal enterprises far more advanced than the inner-city youth gangs. True, films like The Godfather show it as a romanticized concept, emphasizing honor, respect, and loyalty.
To a degree, depending on what time period you look at in the history or organized crime, this is either relatively accurate, or simply wrong in varying degrees. Ironically enough, while films like Goodfellas try to show the seemingly glamorous side of the "Mafia" and the true, dark underside of living day-to-day in a life of crime, most people simply romanticize the mob further because of it. Amer
...icans tend to romanticize organized crime, particularly the Italian-American "Mafia", or "Cosa Nostra" dating back to the Prohibition period of the late 1920's-early 1930's.
This ultimately led the way for criminals to congregate into sporadic bootlegging gangs, supplying the American public with illicit alcohol. This, I believe, allowed these criminals to achieve an air of legitimacy. They were not looked down upon by the general American public, rather they were viewed almost like celebrities... hell, some of them even MINGLED with well-known celebrities of that day. Speakeasies turned into fancy nightclubs, the "gangsters" were seen as almost modern day Robin Hoods.
Prohibition also gave rise to the dominance of Italian-Americans in organized criminal activity, starting the public romanticism of the "Cosa Nostra". The Irish and Jewish elasticity that once dominated organized crime in
the United States began to engage in legitimate enterprises that were rapidly being made available to them.
I won't get into details, but all-in-all, in the long run, all these committees really achieved was to thrust the "Mafia" into the public spotlight. Convictions were achieved, but if we're talking long-term, it did little to combat organized crime in the United States. This would change with the development of the R. I. C. O. Statute that is part of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. R. I. C. O. is highly complex, but it basically allows prosecutors to target entire criminal organizations, not just individuals, thus making it incredibly effective against crime groups.
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