Which empirical and speculative theories are most applicable to this perspective as it applies to organized crime and overall criminal behavior? Properly cite your references or resources according to APA guidelines. Discussion Questions What is social disorganization? How does social disorganization contribute to organized crime? What is an example of social disorganization that created opportunistic atmospheres for organized crime?
Force such as assault and murder of individuals to set an example of what will happen to anyone who interferes in the business of the organization such as the mafia is used. As define in the book “organized crime is dominated by (but is not exclusively) a single, monolithic criminal organization made up of criminals of Italian descent—the Mafia” ( Lyman & Potter, 2007). When looking into organized crime there are different structures that can define the activity rise of organized crime. One way that is creating a rise in organized crime is similar to the rise of terrorism and that is the growth of technology. With the use of technology
Identity Theft: Effects on its Victims What is identity theft? Identity theft is the wrongful obtainment and use of someone else’s personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. An estimated 11.7 million people reported Identity theft and the financial loss totaling more than $17 billion in 2008 (“11.7”). Identity theft is a serious problem for many people. And most people won’t even know their identity’s been stolen until it’s too late and they become a victim to identity theft.
An example of defiant individualism are gangs that are capable of producing benefits for their members and other people in society, they as well work in their rank, and regulating leadership. He also goes on explaining gangs in times of immigration and how these communities have developed in the Unites States. Some of the gangs that are brought from other countries are like Chinese and Vietnamese which they have a long history of gangs in their own societies prior to immigration. These gangs are involved in drug trafficking and gambling. The article continues on by trying to see what gangs are involved with and their progression of consuming or selling drugs and to sharpen their power to not only the society but to their competitors against the other gangs.
Larger prison gangs can even influence organized crime outside of prison. Sometimes they are responsible for and controls prostitution, assaults, kidnappings, and murders while inside prison (Prison
Organized Crime CJA 384 October 28, 2012 Organized crime is systematic, illegal activity for profit. I would describe organized crime as a crime operation in which every move is carefully planned. I have always thought of organized crime as “smart crime,” the type of crime that doesn’t leave traces and the end result leaves everyone involved with significant amounts of cash. Loan sharking, extortion, and racketeering are the types of crimes that I think of as being the most common with these criminal groups. However, drug smuggling and weapons trafficking are also quite common.
Ones first thought regarding property crime is burglary but this is a category, which includes among other crimes, burglary, theft, vehicle crime, arson, shoplifting and vandalism, some of which will be examined deeper within this exercise. According to section 9 of the Theft Act 1968 (not 1963 as in course literature), a person is guilty of burglary if they enter, or attempt to enter any building as a trespasser with the intention to steal, inflict grievous bodily harm, rape or cause unlawful damage. Burglary would become Aggravated Burglary (Section 10) should the offender have with him any firearm, imitation firearm, any weapon of offence or any explosive. As this assignment is solely concerning property crime and not violent crime, burglary will be defined as the entering of a building as a trespasser with intent to steal property or cause unlawful damage. Burglary can be domestic or non-domestic, domestic burglary includes break-ins to all inhabited dwellings, including caravans, houseboats, chalets and also garages and sheds connected to these main buildings.
They have the ability to affect how much crime is recorded, based on how they record their activities. Some crimes are not accounted for because depending on the consequence and who is doing the offending, particularly minors, they may be under counted for because the officer is either overloaded with cases and
According to Tappan’s (1947 p.100, quoted in Muncie et al 2010 p.4) “crime is an intentional act in violation of criminal law (statutory or case law), committed without defence or excuse and penalised by the state as a felony or misdemeanour”. In other words crime may be known as an act deliberately committed which breaches legal conduct punishable by state. This is a common understanding of crime today but unfortunately crime is not as simple as being a breach of law. The study of crime is vast and under constant debate. Crime is ever changing varying culturally, globally and historically.
* There is personal and institutional robbery discussed in this module. Personal robbery is an act against individuals, whereas institutional is committed against businesses such as jewelry stores, banks, etc. The vast majority of robberies are committed by generalists, or criminals that have a long but not focused history with crime. Only a small percentage of burglaries are committed by specialists, or criminals whose main focus