ABSTRACT
The remarkable feature of organized crime is how relatively stable social structures are established, and how most criminals who are involved manage to achieve some stability within them. The more serious crime was carried out only in fantasy, with only a slight spillover into a token minor crime in action. The delinquent becomes a fugitive and the feeling of persecution that develops internally is matched externally by a buildup of hostility and force against him, which increases with every one of his depredations. Paranoid feelings often tend to increase in the delinquent. The criminal character is essentially a primitive one. Instinctual impulses are strong, whether they be of greed, sex, envy, or hatred. Discipline is maintained within the gang by means of grouping together for gain and mutual protection. The rehumanization process inevitably involves the individual in making an approach to and preferably also some inroads into the depressive position.
