See:
Organized Crime In Sicily And Russia And On Merseia, 16 February 2020
Organized Crime, 28 January 2018
Organized Crime, 18 March 2016
Respectable societies illegalize different activities at different times and places, yet prominent members of such societies continue to want such activities so organized crime flourishes.
Poul Anderson imagined the Gethfennu on Merseia;
Stieg Larsson wrote about judges and policemen using prostitutes;
in "The Children's Hour," Japanese organized crime has flourished under feudal lords and great corporations on Earth, then on the colony planet, Wonderland, both before and after kzinti occupation, but is unsure of survival in the future after the kzinti households have completely displaced human social organization - maybe it will be better to cooperate with the UN.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Of course there will always be some influential, wealthy, or powerful people who will find it useful to make use of the "services" criminals can provide. But that doesn't mean we should "legalize" robbery, rape, murder, fraud, violen assault, and so on.
Ad astra! Sean
Poul's Meresian organized crime is based on the Yakuza, just as the dominant culture on Meresia has strong similarities to Shogunate-era Japan.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
No surprise! "Day of Burning" mentions the Gethfennu as living by a distorted form of the baronial tradition dominant around the Wilwidh Ocean on Merseia.
Ad astra! Sean
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