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What is organized crime?
· Organized crime
-Supervision
-Management
-Bureacratic
-Autocratic
Organized crime principles found in legitamite business
· a unit of command
· the principle of definition
· the span of control
· the principle of objective
· insulation and the need-to-know principle
· the principle of specialization
· pyrimid structure
· rules: Omerta
working definition of organized crime
· must include characteristics of the group and the activities
What the investigator should know when defining organized crime
-How each state or jurisdiction defines it
-What resources are needed
Definitions of Organized Crime
Include acts that are mala in se and mala prohibita
knowledge of how acts became organized
definitions must be...
Investigation Definitions
Consortium
cartel
syndicate
organization
Definition of a gang
"A company of persons who act in concert for criminal purposes"
Consortium
a combination of groups to unertake an enterprise beyond the sources of any one member
Cartel
a group which attempts to monopolize/control the competetion of a particular product
Syndicate
association of individuals who wish to carry out a business transaction- usually financial in nature.
RICO- the rackateering influence and corrupt organizations
Conspiracy
· agreement between two or more people to commit a criminal violation.
united states federal definitions
11 characteristics of organized crime reached in western europe
Essential 3 are:
· Consipracy
· Serious criminal acts
· Motivation of profit or power
Other Approaches to defining organized crime
· Divide into crime groups
-traditional
-drug-specific
-entrepreneurial
· Amalgamation
· View as organizing crime rather than organized crime
MUST KNOW FOR QUIZ!
DEFINITION OF CARTEL
DEFINITION OF SYNDICATE
HOW ARE CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS SIMILAR TO LEGITAMITE BUSINESSESS
DEFINITION OF CONSORTIUM...