LS263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ufo Conspiracy Theory
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Something we can study as a phenomenon (crime) How do we understand organized crime: people will always be willing to break the rules, but society needs rules in order to structure itself, as long as we have rules we are going to have crimes. Economic crimes: cutting corners in order to deliver products in illegitimate manner: border officers, involved from canada and us smuggling pizza cheese. Health regulations in canada were very strict than in the us: discrepancy in prices can create illicit market. It can be organized crime in all forms wither predatory, victimless and economic. * can all be organized, but that doesn"t qualify them as organized crime * A crime that is organized is not organized crime. How it is defined will: shape laws, policies, shape how it is policed, shape the allocation of funds spent on combatting organized crime. Harm to whom: will shape academic/scholarly research. Lack of definition allows stereotypes, bad information to rule.
