Obviously Unions, gambling, and drugs.
As far as legitimate business; Garbage collecting, construction, restaurants, strip clubs, and some trucking segments. Many times organized crime will create a legitimate buisness, in order to launder money from illegal activities. Other times, they eliminate competition in certain industries through bribery, collusion, etc, and illigally make money off what seems to be a legitimate industry.
Serguei Cheloukhine has written: 'Russian organized corruption networks and their international trajectories' -- subject(s): Organized crime, Organisiertes Verbrechen, Korruption, Misconduct in office, Transnational crime, Corruption
Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt has written: 'The politics of organized crime and the organized crime of politics' -- subject(s): Elite (Social sciences), Government policy, Organized crime, Political corruption, Power (Social sciences), Transnational crime
Xiaojun. has written: 'Xie xing' -- subject(s): Fiction, Organized crime, Corruption
Raffaele Cantone has written: 'I gattopardi' -- subject(s): Organized crime, Social conditions, Interviews, Public prosecutors 'Operazione Penelope' -- subject(s): Organized crime, Political corruption, Prevention
Crime and corruption are similar because corruption can lead to crime. One example of this would be corruption in a city politician's office, where the corruption could lead to crimes such as embezzlement and perjury.
Robert C. Donnelly has written: 'Dark rose' -- subject(s): Organized crime, Corruption, History
One problem that resulted from national prohibitions was the rise of organized crime and the growth of illegal bootlegging operations. Another problem was the loss of tax revenue for governments due to the underground nature of alcohol sales.
Organized crime in Italy was created in 180#.
"Organized Crime" is a blanket term that does not refer to any one particular crime.
Planning a Crime and Committing the crime
There are no advantages to engaging in corruption and there are definately not any advantages in being the one that corruption crime is perpetrated on.
This is an opionion question and is not allowed on WikiAnswers, but I will answer it in my opinion. A gang is a formed group. Forming a group is an organized act. Also any crime which is done in concert (that is, with the assistance of another or more persons) is also an organized crime. So if you commit a crime on behalf of a gang, it is an organized crime.