CRM 1300 : Crim 1300.docx
Document Summary
Focuses more on organized crime (bikers), drug trafficking. Security measures: contract security personnel, closed circuit tv. Screening and education: background check, personality testing, and seminars. Penalties seen as the cost of doing business. Deterrence: detect crimes, convict and punish offenders as a warning to others. U. s research indicates that public and judicial tolerance of white-collar crime may be decreasing. White-collar offenders make up a small percent of all convictions. Structure or organized, which systematically provides illegal goods and services: prostitution, Goals: profit and power, monopoly on illegal goods and services. Also involved in businesses that seem legitimate: money laundering, computer crimes, land fraud, protection rackets. Predatory tactics: intimidation, violence, corruption, control over their members, violence, Does not include terrorists dedicated to social/political change. Provides illegal goods and services: drugs, prostitution, gambling, and pornography. Involvement in legitimate business: providing a front or service (toxic waste removal) National syndicate of crime families (look in readings)
