List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates

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This is a listing of enterprises, gangs and syndicates that are involved in organized crime. Tongs and outlaw motorcycle gangs, as well as terrorist, militant, paramilitary and pirate groups are mentioned if they are involved in criminal activity for funding. However, since their stated aim and genesis is often ideological rather than commercial, they are distinct from mafia-type groups.

Drug cartels

See also Allegations of CIA drug trafficking

In several drug-producing or transit countries, drug traffickers have taken advantage of local corruption and lack of law enforcement to establish cartels turning in millions if not billions of dollars each year. Sometimes if government enforcement is particularly poor, the cartels become quasi-paramilitary organizations.

Latin America

See also List of drug cartels in South America, Manuel Noriega's narcokleptocracy, Service d'Intelligence National and Yomagate

Colombian cartels

(See also Guerrilla movements in Colombia and The Extraditables)

Mexican cartels

Asian drug cartels

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North American organized crime

Organized crime in Canada

Organized crime in the United States

See also The Order and Key West PD corruption

American Mafia

Italian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century formed various small-time gangs which gradually evolved into sophisticated crime syndicates which dominated organized crime in America for several decades. Although government crackdowns and a less-tightly knit Italian-American community have largely reduced their power, they remain an active force in the underworld.

Active crime families

Defunct mafia families

Jewish mafia

African-American organized crime

Certain members of the Black Panther Party, particularly the Oakland chapter, also engaged in criminal activities such as drug dealing and extortion.

Irish Mob

European organized crime groups

Italian organized crime

See also Propaganda Due and Sardinian banditry

Organized crime in Italy, especially the south, has existed for hundreds of years and has given rise to a number of notorious organizations with their own traditions and subculture which have managed to infiltrate almost every part of Italian society.[39] The Italian mafia is often thought of as being the archetype for organized crime worldwide.

Balkan organized crime

Balkan organized crime gained prominence in the chaos following the communist era, notably the transition to capitalism and the wars in former Yugoslavia.

British organised crime "firms"

see also Irish Republican paramilitaries and Ulster loyalist groups

Post-Soviet organized crime

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Although organized crime existed in the Soviet era, the gangs really gained in power and international reach during the transition to capitalism. The term Russian Mafia, 'mafiya' or mob is a blanket (and somewhat inaccurate) term for the various organized crime groups that emerged in this period from the 15 former republics of the USSR and unlike their Italian counterparts does not mean members are necessarily of Russian ethnicity or uphold any ancient criminal traditions, although this is the case for some members.

Caucasian crime syndicates

Central Asian crime syndicates

Asian organized crime groups

See also Kenji Doihara's crime ring and the Zomi Revolutionary Army

Korean organizations

Yakuza organizations

The yakuza of Japan are similar to the Italian mafias in that they originated centuries ago and follow a rigid set of traditions, but have several aspects that make them unique, such as their full-body tattoos and their fairly open place in Japanese society. Many yakuza groups are umbrella organizations, smaller gangs reporting to a larger crime syndicate.

Active yakuza groups

Defunct yakuza groups

Triads and other Chinese criminal organizations

See also Tiandihui

The Triads is a popular name for a number of Chinese criminal secret societies, which have existed in various forms over the centuries (see for example Tiandihui). However, not all Chinese gangs fall into line with these traditional groups, as many non-traditional criminal organizations have formed, both in China and the Chinese diaspora.

Southeast Asian criminal organizations

See also the Piracy in the Strait of Malacca

South Asian criminal organizations

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Middle Eastern organized crime

See also Free Syrian Army,[65] Shabeeha,[66] al-Qaeda in Iraq, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, Syria Revolutionaries Front, Al-Mulatahemeen Brigade, Piracy in the Persian Gulf

Australian organized crime groups

(see also Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union and Nugan Hand Bank)

Caribbean crime groups

See also the Piracy in the Caribbean

African criminal organisations

See also the Taxi wars in South Africa, blood diamonds, Kivu conflict, Barbary Coast, Piracy in Somalia, Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram

Cybercrime networks

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As society enters the Information Age, certain individuals take advantage of easy flow of information over the Internet to commit online fraud or similar activities. Often the hackers will form a network to better facilitate their activities. On occasion the hackers will be a part of a criminal gang involved in more 'blue collar crime', but this is unusual.

Drug and smuggling rings

Smuggling is a behavior that has occurred ever since there were laws or a moral code that forbade access to a specific person or object. At the core of any smuggling organization is the economic relationship between supply and demand. From the organization's point of view, the issues are what the consumer wants, and how much the consumer is willing to pay the smuggler or smuggling organization to obtain it.

Drug rings

Prison gangs

Prisons are a natural meeting place for criminals, and for the purposes of protection from other inmates and business prisoners join gangs. These gangs often develop a large influence outside the prison walls through their networks. Most prison gangs do more than offer simple protection for their members. Most often, prison gangs are responsible for any drug, tobacco or alcohol handling inside correctional facilities. Furthermore, many prison gangs involve themselves in prostitution, assaults, kidnappings and murders. Prison gangs often seek to intimidate the other inmates, pressuring them to relinquish their food and other resources. In addition, prison gangs often exercise a large degree of influence over organized crime in the "free world", larger than their isolation in prison might lead one to expect.

Prison gangs in the United States

Street gangs

Youth gangs have often served as a recruiting ground for more organized crime syndicates, where juvenile delinquents grow up to be full-fledged mobsters, as well as providing muscle and other low-key work. Increasingly, especially in the United States and other western countries, street gangs are becoming much more organized in their own right with a hierarchical structure and are fulfilling the role previously taken by traditional organized crime.

North America

African-American

Asian-American

Hispanic

Historical

Gangs in Canada

South America

See also criminal barra bravas (La barra del Rojo)

Europe

Africa

Asia

Oceania

Other

Historical

See also

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