Definition of organized crime

Organized criminal groups – secret, exclusive societies with their own rules and regulations – have been studied by sociologists and psychologists for decades. In recent years the criminal underworld has also fascinated artists, writers and filmmakers. Let us dwell upon the problem of organized crime definition.

An organized crime is a crime in which there is more than one offender and they intend to remain associated with one another for the purpose of committing crimes. The means of executing the crime include violence, theft, corruption, economic power, deception and victim participation. These are not mutually exclusive categories – any crime may employ a number of these means.

The objective of most organized crimes is power, either political or economic. These two types of objectives also are not mutually exclusive and may coexist in any organized crime.

While there is no generally accepted definition of organized crime, there have been a number of attributes identified by law enforcement agencies and researches as indicative of the phenomenon. Organized crime:

· is nonideological

· is hierarchical

· has a limited or exclusive membership

· uses illegal violence and bribery

· demonstrates specialization/division of labor

· is monopolistic

· is governed by explicit rules and regulations.

As one can see there is no uniform definition of organized crime developed yet, but a more general description would be any group of individuals organized to profit by illegal means on a continuing bases.

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