【正文】 Don Corleone, who acts as a judge, has the same massive degree of violence. With this Puzo wanted to show his readers that even if the motives for both crimes are different. Yet they are mitted in a similarly brutal and savage way. 3. Crimes Committed by the Mafioso Towards Mafioso For the crimes that are mitted by mafioso towards Mafioso the never uses the theme of violence and counter violence again. However unlike the Civilians the Mafiosi almost always act with the intention to kill: The first bullet caught Don Corleone in the back. He felt the hammer shock of its impact but made his body move toward the car. The next two bullets hit him in the buttocks and sent him sprawling in the middle of the street. Meanwhile the two gunmen, careful not to slip the rolling fruit, started to follow in order to finish him off…The gunmen fired two more hasty shots at the Don lying in the gutter. One hit him in the fleshy part of his arm and the second hit him in the calf of his right leg. Though these wounds were the least serious the bled profusely, forming small pools of blood beside his body. But by this time Don Corleone had lost Don Corleone, his criminal activities focus on gambling and alcohol smuggling business, while he refused to take part in the drug, or the prostitution ―business‖, due to his own sense of morality. His disagreement with 8 drug dealings leaded to the assault on his life. He was an obstacle in the business of all rivalling clans and therefore they intended to eliminate him. In the Mafia environment killing is the same as operating against a business petitor. In opposition to the crimes between civilians, the Mafia established a crime culture. Crime is not the exception but the rule and a regular business strategy. There are several insights concerning criminality that can be deviated from The Godfather. Firstly: Criminality will lead to further criminality. Secondly: Criminality between civilians is a horrible and gruesome exception and often something personal. Thirdly: In opposition to that criminality, which is mitted by the Mafia is just part of a regular crime culture. Severe violence is deemed a something normal, a regular instrument to gain economic success. Fourthly: The Godfather amalgamates the spheres of civilians and the Mafia by regularly integrating people who need his help into his Mafia Empire. B. The Government’s Corruption The preceding section presented the different categories of crimes and their phonotypical characteristics. Subsequently it is necessary to explore the external circumstances that enable the anized criminality. The most essential external factor is the Government180。 his eyes beneath impressively thick brows flickered slyly toward the sallowfaced Amerigo Bonasera, and then lowered to a stack of probation reports before him. He frowned and shrugged as if convinced against his own natural desire. He spoke again. But because of your youth and your fine family background the sentence will be Putzo illustrates that corruption has spread like a virus. Already at the beginning of the novel, he introduces the figure of the judge, who gives a rather mild sentence to two young men, who brutally mistreated a helpless girl. As a reason for this sentence, he states their fine family background. Within the course of the story the reader gains the insight, that the judge was bribed by the men‘s wealthy families: Captain Mark McCluskey sat in his office fingering three envelopes bulging with betting slips. He was frowning and wishing he could decode the notations on the slips. It was very important that he do so. The envelopes were the betting slips that his raiding parties had picked up when they had hit one of the Corleone Family bookmakers the night before. Now the bookmaker would have to buy back the slips so that players couldn‘t claim winners and wipe him 10 Puzo explains to his readers that the integrity of the system is heavily damaged, because the state apparatus is in the hands of the wealthy and influential families. Additionally the Mafia used the willingness of government officials to be bribed for extra money. The police was the typical institution to be bribed, because crime scenes where the point of intersection for the Mafias criminal deeds, and the states investigation. A police officer can easily investigate halfheartedly or rather lead a criminal investigation into a wrong direction, by manipulating evidence. This environment in which the police give up its essential protective responsibilities just to enrich itself has hindrances for anized crime to spread. As a consequence the integrity of the national security is endangered. C. Danger of the National Security In the previous sections this paper researched the different categories and especially examined the connections of regular crime and anized crime. Subsequently it uncovered the government‘s corruption as the most important external precondition for anized crime. In this section the disastrous consequence of anized crime will be explored, the danger of the national security. Periled national security is a predominant motive in The Godfather, this includes financial security, civil security and the economic security, which are threatened by Mafia groups. The Mafia, as shown in The Godfather, is an extremely dangerous anization. It‘s most mon crimes are racketeering and extortion. By mitting these crimes the Mafia has extreme influence on the society. This is especially true, when a supposedly moral institution like the police is involved. In The Godfather this is shown on the example of police officer McCluskey, who was paid by Vergil Sollozo, a Mafia criminal and drug smuggler, to be his 11 personal bodyguard. If the police, an