Sociology 3366F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Payment Card, Europol, People Smuggling
23 Feb 2021
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3 or more persons inside or outside canada. Has a main activity one or more serious criminal offences. This activity results in a material benefit: money or something. Excludes a group that forms randomly to commit a single offence: few people together and plan a robbery and then you"re done. Includes a small group of like minded people - not necessarily an organized crime group. Frederic thrasher the gang (1927: first academic study - 1313 gangs in chicago, neighbourhoods in flux or transition had increase numbers of gangs, codes of honor and glory - something in common. John landesco, organized crime in chicago (1929, 1968) Prohibition time: illinois crime survey, oc and the structure of the american city - how did this lead to crime, upperworld, underworld, brought in the role of politician and gangsters. Perceived as a group that will follow through. Conduct activities in a methodical, systematic, secret fashion.
