Organized Cybercrime - How Cyberspace May Affect the Structure of Criminal Relationships
Susan W. Brenner · University of North Carolina School of Law Scholarship Repository (University of North Carolina Hospitals) · 2002
Introduction "It is hard to say what forms the organised crime will take in the future, but the reality is not very far from some science fiction movies.,,2The twentieth century marked the era when organized crime, 3 typically equated with the Mafia or La Cosa Nostra, became a widely recognized and widely studied phenomenon.Organized crime in the La Cosa Nostra sense burst into the American awareness in the 1950's and 1960's as a result of Senator Estes Kefauver's inquiries, a the McClellan Committee hearings, 5 and the Congressional testimony of Joe Valachi, who was the first Mafia soldier to breach the mob's code of silence.6