SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Money Laundering, Loan Shark, Cybercrime
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Embezzlement: trafficking moving goods and people illegally. Like a large legitimate corporation, which it resembles, costa nostra has both kinds of positions, making it both a business organization and a government. Own codes, rules, goals, etc: international definition (comes from the un, there"s no real specific definition, nor does it list the types that constitute transnational organized crime, it is deliberate) Group of 3 or more people that was not randomly formed. Severity punished for at least 4 years. Goal profit-driven nature: academic definition. Corruption **all definitions agree on corruption **would be a good multiple choice question** Relationship with society: element of definitions: state versus academia. Integral to segments of society, relies on demand, social and political support. Makes use of existing corrupt relations: loosely organized, informal groups, hostile, uncertain environments, limited geographic scope, adaptive, short-lived, licit and illicit profits.
