CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Extortion, Transnational Organized Crime, Solar Irradiance

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: Danny O' Rourke- Dicarlo

Document Summary

Morality & crime part iii (organized crime) Thesis: public constructions regarding harms associates with narcotics and the actual structure of organized crime = not accurate: narcotics = drug enforcement relationships, addictions = health issues (not legal) Competing laws and policy models: criminalization/prohibition punitive war on drugs. #1 threat to moral fabric of american society. War on drugs prioritizes the supply side assuming that the problem is availability. Flaw: does nothing to undermine criminal monopoly on multi billionaire industries: legalization strict quality controls on production, strict levels of taxation & licensing consumer face no penalty supply side (cultivation, transportation and retailing = taxable corporation. Crime in non-failed states: reason: constant demand for illegal services and discounted items (loans, general corruption in both markets and politics, organized crime and corruption is interwoven with daily life. Shelat 1: conception of organized crime as a) highly organized b) incredibly ethnic =