CRMN 3026U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Transnational Organized Crime, Organized Crime, Loan Shark

• School: UOIT
• Department: Criminology-and-Justice
• Course: CRMN 3026U
• Professor: Jordan Harel

Document Summary

Organized crime -> transnational organized crime (toc): Groups who are self-perpetuating associations of individuals who operate, wholly or in part, by illegal means and irrespective or geography. They constantly seek to obtain power, influence and monetary gains. (fbi 2017b in lyman, 2019. U. s. law enforcement/government: omnibus safe streets crime control act (1968) Organized crime is both a social system and a social world. The system is composed of relationships binding professional criminals, politicians, law enforcers and various entrepreneurs. (block, 1983: vii, in lyman, 2019) The provision of illegal goods and services, various forms of theft and fraud, and the restraint of trade in both licit and illicit market sectors, perpetuated by informal and changing network of. Upper-world and under-world societal participants who are bound together in complex webs of patron-client relationships. ( liddick, 2004) Organized crime consists of thousand of loosely organized, informal groups. Organized crime engages in enterprises that are neither continuous or self-perpetuating.