Organized Crime

Organized Crime

Introduction

This paper intends to explore the concept of organized crime. The main focus of this paper is to identify problems presented and various relationships established by organized crime. Further, it also discusses about the legal limitations associated with combating organized crime, including a critique of major federal laws and strategies that support this effort. In addition to this, a realistic solution is proposed in order to control the organized crime by discussing and evaluating the effectiveness of organized crime prosecutions.

Discussion

The Concept and Definition of Organized Crime

Problem definition of organized crime is a very controversial and complex due to the diversity of its occurrence and high volatility. Organized crime is a threat to human security and peace. It violates human rights and demoralizes social, political, economic, cultural, and civil developments of communities across the globe (unodc.org).

The international attempt to define organized crime moves in two directions. The first one of these is supported by representatives of Interpol. Organized crime is defined by showing three elements; corporate structure, business to make a profit by operation of an illegal nature, based on intimidation and corruption. The second direction is based on an analysis of the risks of such crime, thus taking into account the severity of the problem and the transnational nature of the crime committed by organized crime as well as by identifying the crime, which can be terrorism, drug trafficking, trafficking in arms and human, environmental crimes, computer crime, corruption, legalization of the proceeds of crime.

Organizations as Social Systems

The main approaches to the understanding of the structures of criminal organizations as social systems are basically three;

Organizations as a rational system: exceedingly formal structure in terms of hierarchy and bureaucracy, with formalized system of rules of authority and highly specific targets. The maximization of profit is a priority.

Organizations as a natural system: Participants may regard the organization as an end in itself, not only a means of achieving other ends. Promoting group values ??to maintain solidarity among the members is considered a fundamental practice. These groups are not based on profit maximization and their violence, perpetrated in the name of the relations between the members and of the unity of the group, is often remarkable and an end in itself.

Organizations as a open system; These groups show a high level of interdependence between the members and the environment in which they operate. There is no particular ...