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Understanding Organized Crime

2. Definitions of Organized Crime
Any group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities.

3. Definitions of Organized Crime
Refers to those self-perpetuating, structured and discipline associations of individuals, or groups, combined together for the purpose of obtaining monetary or commercial gains or profits.

4. Definitions of Organized Crime
Organized crime means the unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized, disciplined association, engaged in supplying illegal goods and services including but not limited to gambling, loan sharking, human trafficking, prostitution, drug trafficking, counterfeiting – money, documents, products, drugs.

5. Definitions in the Scholarly Literature
Organized crime involves social relationships, informal social structures and "networks" of individuals.
Organized crime is involved in the provision of illicit goods and services for the purpose of realizing a profit.
Organized crime is integral to the society in which it operates.

6. The Empirical Research
Small and fragmented enterprises tend to populate illegal markets.
Organized crime is a profit-driven enterprise.

7. Redefining Organized Crime
An organized crime “group” contains at least three people.
The group is motivated by a desire for profit and/or power.
The group commits serious offenses (felonies).

8. The Forms of Organized Crime
Standard Hierarchy
Regional Hierarchy
Clustered Hierarchy
Core Group
Criminal Network

9. Categories of Organized Criminal Behavior
Provision of Illicit Services:
Protection rackets, loan sharking, and prostitution.
Provision of Illicit Goods.
Conspiracy to Commit Crimes.
Bribery
Extortion

10. Categories of Organized Criminal Behavior
Penetration of Legitimate Business
Extortion
Corruption

11. Mussolini's Mafia Purge
The Hennessey Incident in New Orleans
Landesco's Organized Crime Investigation
The Castellammarese War
Thomas Dewey and the Mob

12. Mussolini's Mafia Purge
The Kefauver Committee
The Apalachian Incident
The Valachi Testimony at the McClellan Committee
Robert Kennedy's Justice Department Task Force

13. Mussolini's Mafia Purge
Palermo's Maxitrial
Buscetta's Dilemma
The Pizza Connection
Giuliani's Mafia Trials
Louis Free and the New Mafia War

14. Models of Organized Crime
The Criminal Group
Continuity
Structure
Membership

15. The Criminal Group
Criminality
Violence
Power and profit

16. The Criminal Group Protectors Specialized Supporters User Supporters
Social Supporters

17. Cressey's Cosa Nostra Theory
The boss
The consigliere
The underboss
The caporegime
Soldiers

18. Rules of Conduct Be loyal to members of the organization
Be a man of honor and always do right
Be rational
Be a stand up guy
Have class

19. Organized Crime, the Media, and Popular Culture
Superficiality
Sensationalism
Creating reality