![]() Members dressed "with colored ribbons to distinguish the different factions." During the Victorian era, criminals and gangs started to form organizations which would collectively become London's criminal underworld. These gangs often came into conflict with each other. Some of them known as the Mims, Hectors, Bugles, and Dead Boys. The 17th century saw London "terrorized by a series of organized gangs", suggests that gangsterism as a "form of self-help which victimizes others" may appear in societies which lack strong "forces of law and order" he characterizes European feudalism as "mainly gangsterism that had become society itself and acquired respectability through the notions of chivalry". In discussing the banditry in American history, Barrington Moore, Jr.
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