This kind of things nowadays are obviously illustrated and played in computer games, which is I think is not healthy for the minds of young teens playing mafia games. Looking for articles on how mobsters think, I happen to find an article entitled, "Analyze This: The Criminal Mentality" by Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus in the website americanmafia.com. This article talks about the psychological thinking of a mobster criminal. It connects on the idea of being a psychopath.
According to the article, a psychopath is someone alienated, aggressive and highly impulsive. It's a person who feels no kind of guilt or conscience, and commits crimes like its a normal thing. Retired FBI agent Bruce Mouw stated: "A lot of these guys are psychopaths. It is not like the mobsters of the twenties and thirties. There is no honor among these guys." Howard Abadinsky agreed: "The New York mobsters are much more psychopathic than their predecessors. They lack loyalty and love violence." In both of this statement, they explained that the mobsters on the time of 1920's and 30's. The mobsters on the 20's and 30's we're only forced to do those necessary and extreme measures for their family, to deliver them from poverty.
I found the article very interesting because I was getting a peek of how the mafia gangsters was able to pass through generation to generation. There are points that may be very dangerous, however there are common ways to prevent them. The way they train mobsters are through actual real places, real people to kill, and real things to steal, if you fail, you're weak.
While searching for other articles to relate it with, I found an article entitled Murder, Mafia-Style by Colin Allen in the website psychologytoday.com. I find the article one of the worst way of killing a human being. In this article, there we're two brothers. Jason Bautista, 20, and his 15-year-old half brother confessed to strangling their mother, Jane Bautista, then chopping off her hands and head. The brothers mimicked an episode of "The Sopranos," hoping to elude authorities. Later on, the two brothers we're arrested on January 24, 2003. Mafia killing destroys the mind of a teenager, the very brutal aspects and personalities of a mobster we're copied by youngster like Jason Bautista with his half brother. This is worst than it gets, because that is just one of the most inhumane killing in the history.
1979 the murder of Carmine Galante
"['The Sopranos'] might have acted like a road map, but it is not the cause," says Harvey Schlossberg, Ph.D., a forensic psychologist based in New York. "To avoid guilt, they [may] say that the TV talked them into it." Schlossberg is certain that even if the brothers did not watch "the Sopranos"; they would have still killed their mother. In this statement, there is some kind of deep emotional stress, where one theory is because of money. The mother may have refused to give money, and the boys expressed their anger in extreme measure of anxiety.
An addition to the meaning of the word psychopath is that was used to be defined as a "moral imbecile", someone without conscience, free of all moral constraints. The psychological reaction of civilized culture toward a murderer is a mixture of fear and the respect. We feel contempt, anger, and disgust for the maniacal madman who hysterically kills humans out of sadism, perversion, or just lunacy, and we feel equal contempt for the person who kills in anger or by accident. Yet, perversely, our society stands in awe of those who have the ability to kill while coolly in control of themselves.
In conclusion, we hate killers, but we like watch them in the movies, and illustrate them in computer games to be played by teenagers. Its okay for us to see action movies, but there's a time that, too much action and violence can affect the mind of a young child, specially at the early ages of childhood.
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