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Collaboration and Boundaries in Organized Crime: A Network Perspective

Crime and justice, 2020
A network approach helps us better specify and model collaboration among people involved in organized crime. The focus on collaboration raises the boundary specification problem: Where do criminal organizations start, where do they end, and who is ...
M. Bouchard
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Organized crime or crime that is organized? The parrot trade in the neotropics

Trends in Organized Crime, 2015
The illegal wildlife trade is one of the most profitable illegal industries in the world, only behind the trafficking of drugs, guns, and humans. Because of the relative ease in poaching wildlife combined with the possibility of high profit margins, many assume that organized crime is heavily linked to the trade.
Stephen F. Pires, Jacqueline L. Schneider, Mauricio Herrera   +2 more
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Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Organized Crime

Crime and justice, 2020
Outlaw motorcycle clubs have spread across the globe. Their members have been associated with serious crime, and law enforcement often perceives them to be a form of organized crime.
K. Lampe, A. Blokland
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The Organic Dimension of Crime

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1966
THE STUDY and treatment of individuals who display deviant and antisocial behavior is a traditional concern of psychiatry. In recents years the participation of psychiatrists in the examination and disposition of offenders has grown steadily, as illustrated by an expanding volume of popular and scientific publications on this subject and the now ...
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How to Organize Crime [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
In criminal organizations, diffusing information widely throughout the organization might lead to greater internal efficiency (in particular, since these organizations are self-sustaining, through enhancing trust). However, this may come at the cost of leaving the organization more vulnerable to external threats such as law enforcement. We consider the
Baccara, Mariagiovanna, Bar-Isaac, Heski
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“Organized crime” and “organized crime”: Indeterminate problems of definition

Trends in Organized Crime, 2006
Despite decades of effort, the search for a universal definition of organized crime has eluded both academics, criminal justice agencies, as well as international bodies. More than two decades ago, a content analysis of such definitional efforts by this writer (Hagan, 1983) noted that, while many writers, including those of textbooks, failed to supply ...
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Omega as Organized Crime?

2023
This chapter provides a comprehensive analysis of the historical, structural, cultural and institutional factors that have contributed to the rise of the Omega gang, a group distinct from traditional Chinese secret societies. While there are observable differences between the two, it is arguable that they also share some common characteristics ...
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Exogenous Shocks, the Criminal Elite, and Increasing Gender Inequality in Chicago Organized Crime

, 2020
Criminal organizations, like legitimate organizations, adapt to shifts in markets, competition, regulations, and enforcement. Exogenous shocks can be consequential moments of power consolidation, resource hoarding, and inequality amplification in ...
Chris M. Smith
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Organized Crime Mythologies

2016
Organized crime is one of the most popular topics of media attention within the crime genre, providing a plethora of fictional representations and factual explanations for popular consumption. Its media presence has not only entertained the public but also interacted with and help form policy responses by governments and law enforcement agencies. Beset
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Organized Crime: Less Than Meets the Eye

Crime and justice, 2020
“Less here than meets the eye,” a Venusian documentary maker calling home might say. Books, films, and mass media portray organized crime as larger than life, a fearsome monster among us, an awesome moneymaking machine. Reality is different.
P. Reuter, M. Tonry
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