Crime carried out by a centralized, durable enterprise that pursues profit through sustained illegal activity such as trafficking, racketeering and money laundering, rather than through a single opportunistic offense. Its structure and continuity, not any one crime type, is what separates it from ordinary offending. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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How does organized crime differ from a street gang?
Most street gangs are loosely structured with transient leadership and membership. Organized crime groups typically operate on a hierarchy, with defined roles and continuity of leadership, resembling a business rather than a shifting association.
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Source Wikipedia: Eliot Ness
Source Wikipedia: Fence (criminal)
UNODC administers the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the leading international legal framework against organized crime.
Source Wikipedia: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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Source Wikipedia: Donald Cressey
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Source Wikipedia: Organized Crime
Source Wikipedia: Organized Crime
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Organized crime refers to groups of centralized enterprises that engage in, and aim to profit from, illegal activities.
Used In: Social Disorganization Theory, Article text
Fear of or lack of trust in mainstream authority may also be a key contributor to social disorganization; organized crime groups replicate such figures and thus ensure control over the counter-culture
Used In: Differential Association Theory, Article text
may be defined by differential association theory
View the SourceWikipedia: Donald Cressey
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later the smaller Criminal Organization, in which he extended his conceptualization of organized crime to include criminal groups other than the Cosa Nostra
Wikipedia: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Wikipedia: Eliot Ness
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known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago
Wikipedia: Fence (criminal)
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Fencing is a common source of income for organised crime.
New World Encyclopedia: Organized Crime
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Organized crime or criminal organizations refer to centralized enterprises established in order to engage in illegal activities, most commonly for the purpose of generating substantial profit for the criminals involved.
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