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How initiation works in organized crime.
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Initiation works in an organized crime group, the way that initiation works in any social group.
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Organized crime group just typically has more of a risk of life, death, and arrest, like life -altering things that can happen as being part of this organized group.
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So the initiation for being in this organized group can typically be more extreme.
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But overall initiation is an actor ritual that must perform in order to be officially recognized as having joined a group or organization or having achieved a new status within the group.
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And this can be looked at in fraternities for colleges.
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They typically have a hazy period, even a lot of them have a band, where a person has to drink a certain amount.
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And the drink that they drink is usually been done by everyone else that's joined the group.
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So they have a shared struggle that they've gone through to get into those groups.
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So everyone within the group has gone through this struggle.
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And so it's recognized as a social currency that everybody has, a shared connection they have.
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Violence and gang initiation, therefore, gives an answer to the question, are you one of us? and it determines whether the group upholds or loosens its social boundaries around that person...