CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gun Buyback Program, White-Collar Crime, Fraternities And Sororities
29 Nov 2016
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Lecture 10- organized crime and gangs and white collar crime. Thrasher (chicago school) 1927 definition there have been hundreds of definitions advanced. There is considerable disagreement within the literature as to what constitutes as a gang. Some say that to be meet the definition the gang must have at least 3 members, or 5. Unlike thrasher (neutral definition) most now say gang has to be involved in criminal activity. Require gang to be involved in violent crime or drug related crimes, others require the gang to be formed for the purpose of committing a serious crime for material benefit. In his 1927 definition, thrasher did not include criminality as an essential criterion for designation as a gang. Some contemporary scholars have argued that the absence of criminality makes the definition of a gang too broad. In chapter 17 wortley argues that without criminality criterion the study of gangs would become the study of all organized group behaviour.
