When I looked around the neighborhood , I found out that the kidswasn't the only crooks. We were surrounded by crooks , and plen tyof them was guys who were supposed to be legit, like the landlo rdsand storekeepers and the politicans and cops on the beat. All ofthem was stealing from somebody.

The reason is not a failure of understanding; it is that suchplanning must operate within the cultural framework that allows the de-velopment of organized crime in the first place. Thus cultural and juridi-cal treatment of symptoms, rather than causes, must be the ru le; theopportunity for entrepreneurial and syndicated criminal enterp rise re-mains.