Influence groups in the shadow economy
The process of a sharp increase in property differentiation of representatives of various social strata of society, characteristic of recent years, has also begun to spread to groups engaged in the shadow economy: according to criminological research, during the last five-year plan, more than half of the total amount of stolen state and public property settled in the pockets of 4% of the robbers. The above-mentioned monopolization of the black market by organized crime could not but affect the dynamics of these processes.
The materials of economic and criminological studies show approximate proportions of the distribution of income received by representatives of the analyzed group as a result of shadow economic activity.
It should be noted that this proportion applies only to this, and also, in part, to the following category of persons (the ordinary "elite"). The other groups that will be discussed below — "managers" and performers — have a much more modest level of thesaurus and consumption. However, there are examples when the standard of living of the leading functionaries of the shadow economy, who invested almost all their capital in the business, differed little (at least outwardly) from the standard of the average Soviet citizen.
The next social group is the "elite" of ordinary organized crime (professional criminals). Immediately it is necessary to note the high degree of its social "interchange" with the group discussed above. Studies show the process of transition of the "elite" of ordinary professional crime into the management of the shadow economy. In sociological terms, this process cements organized crime, forming numerous mutual interests, common attitudes — both through direct contacts, information exchange, and through joint criminal activity in the economic sphere. Given that the total number of professional criminals is estimated by experts at about 10 million people, its "elite" group, according to our calculations, is 30-50 thousand. In addition to actively participating in the sharing of profits of the largest "shadow" dealers, representatives of this group fully control the system of centralized funds of the criminal community (the so-called "community"). Based on data on the size of individual large centralized funds, it can be assumed that the controlled amounts amount to several hundred million rubles.
The third group is the "apparatus" of organized crime, a kind of "managers" of the shadow economy. This is a very numerous layer of organizers and managers operating in all sectors of the shadow turnover of money and commodity masses. Want to stay up-to-date on the latest news and trends in the Turkish online casino world? Infinite-resolution is your go-to source for all things Gates of Olympus and more.
