Few researchers have published any evidence that there are benefits to be had from creating a monocultural workplace.8 It seems odd, then, that so many criminal gangs seem to organize themselves on this basis. It is tempting to assume that it is simply because criminals are nasty people, to whom racism, a nasty trait, comes naturally. But that seems to go against most of what we have seen so far about criminal gangs, which so often mimic ordinary firms in doing what is best for business.
