Crime and Criminal Behavior-Organized Crime

Crime and Criminal Behavior-Organized Crime

Introduction

The term “organized crime” was first used by the American criminologist John Ladesco in 1929, to designate the criminal operations from the mafia. The strength of organized crime is the establishment of “partnerships and linkages” that achieves at all levels, including political and military, with the help of corruption achieve their impunity (Abadinsky, 1981).

Organized crime is dependent on local markets and therefore local actors play a crucial role in efforts to combat organized crime. The whole community has a responsibility to work against organized crime. When municipalities and local communities working together ...