CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Edwin Sutherland, Environment And Climate Change Canada, Endangerment
16 Oct 2016
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Tutorial 10 organized crime, gangs and white-collar crime. As scott wortley notes in chapter 17 of the textbook, there are hundreds of competing definitions of gangs. Some gangs and criminal organizations require only 3 members, some, five members, and some, participation in criminal activity by the gang members. The definition of (cid:498)criminal organization(cid:499) used in the canadian criminal code says that to be considered a criminal organization, the organization (gang must): 2. have as its main purpose the pursuit of criminal activity for financial or material gain. The canadian criminal code does not mention the length of time the organization must have been in existence for, but wortley says that courts have usually insisted on the organization being around for at least a month. Level 1 gangs are loosely formed groups, based on a shared cultural identity or particular neighborhood; they engage in periodic, unorganized criminal activity for fun and excitement.
