Editing Organized crime (section)

===Multi-model approach===
Culture and ethnicity provide an environment where trust and communication between criminals can be efficient and secure. This may ultimately lead to a competitive advantage for some groups; however, it is inaccurate to adopt this as the only determinant of classification in organized crime. This categorization includes the [[Sicilian Mafia]], [['Ndrangheta]], [[Triad society|ethnic Chinese criminal groups]], Japanese [[yakuza]] (or [[Boryokudan]]),  [[Illegal drug trade in Colombia|Colombian drug trafficking groups]], [[Organized crime in Nigeria|Nigerian organized crime]] groups, [[Corsican mafia]], [[Kkangpae|Korean criminal groups]] and [[Jamaican posses]]. From this perspective, organized crime is not a modern phenomenon - the construction of 17th and 18th century crime gangs fulfill all the present day criteria of criminal organizations (in opposition to the Alien Conspiracy Theory). These roamed the rural borderlands of central Europe embarking on many of the same illegal activities associated with today's crime organizations, with the exception of money laundering.
When the French revolution created strong nation states, the criminal gangs moved to other poorly controlled regions like the Balkans and Southern Italy, where the seeds were sown for the Sicilian Mafia - the linchpin of organized crime in the New World.<ref>{{cite web|last=Morrison|first=S|title=Approaching Organized Crime: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?|url=http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/6/B/2/%7B6B21C915-591C-4478-AEB6-ED58E6241D86%7Dti231.pdf|publisher=[[Australian Institute of Criminology]]|access-date=2011-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110329192011/http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/6/B/2/%7B6B21C915-591C-4478-AEB6-ED58E6241D86%7Dti231.pdf|archive-date=2011-03-29|url-status=dead}}</ref>