ABSTRACT

Every aged is like someone in the aged population. He will be studied in terms of the cultural, social and organizational environment that gives significance to the physiological changes which he undergoes, i.e., provides definition of aging and its consequences to his life and his relationships with his milieu. This chapter aims to combine two phenomena: the aged, or aging and Organized Crime. There are various definitions of aging and old age which depend on the discipline of the scholar: the biological-physiological definition attends to changes in the biology of the body cells; the cultural sociological definition regards changes, voluntary or enforced, in social roles. Organized Crime does not refer to professional criminals who usually work alone, nor to organized criminality, that is, any organized group, of robbers or burglars. For the aged in Organized Crime, normative systems are sources of problems and thus deserve special attention.