SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Organized Crime In Nigeria, Russian Mafia, Consensual Crime

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Alexander Shvarts

Document Summary

* essays handed back next thursday, november 24, 2011. > 2 theories when talking about organized crime. The roots of organized crime: activities of organized crime result from demand by the law-abiding citizenry for illegal goods and services such as illicit drugs and prostitution. Governments made production, sale, and possession of drugs illegal. Recent goods being smuggled include jewelry, stolen vehicles, weapons, and illegal immigrants. > heroin, marijuana and cocaine are million dollar buisnesses. The roots of organized crime: most difficult criminal organizations to penetrate are those that utilize secret banking and corporate facilities in tax-haven countries, such as. Switzerland, cayman islands: canada: relatively few instances of systematic corruption involving organized criminals. Canadians have fewer opportunities to establish illicit markets, while in the us it is easier to corrupt public officials. > one of the biggest problems in waterloo = organized crime; no dominance of organized crime in canada: example the origins of an illicit market structure smuggling.