Examples of organized crime in the following topics:
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- Global crime can refer to any organized crime that occurs at an international or transnational level.
- Like national and local organized crime, global crime includes highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit.
- Transnational organized crime (TOC or transnational crime) is organized crime coordinated across national borders, involving groups or networks of individuals working in more than one country to plan and execute illegal business ventures.
- The most commonly seen transnational organized crimes are money laundering; human smuggling; cyber crime; and trafficking of humans, drugs, weapons, endangered species, body parts, or nuclear material.
- Transnational organized crime is widely opposed on the basis of a number of negative effects.
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- Organized crime refers to transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals.
- Gangs may become "disciplined" enough to be considered "organized."
- An organized gang or criminal set can also be referred to as a mob.
- Bureaucratic and corporate organized crime groups are defined by the general rigidity of their internal structures.
- A distinctive gang culture underpins many, but not all, organized groups; this may develop through recruiting strategies, social learning processes in the corrective system experienced by youth, family, or peer involvement in crime, and the coercive actions of criminal authority figures.
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- This does not deny that there may be practical motives for crime.
- When criminal behavior is learned, the learning includes techniques of committing the crime (which are sometimes very complicated, sometimes simple) and the specific direction of motives, drives, rationalizations, and attitudes.
- One very unique aspect of this theory is that it works to explain more than just juvenile delinquency and crime committed by lower class individuals.
- Since crime is understood to be learned behavior, the theory is also applicable to white-collar, corporate, and organized crime.
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- Crime statistics attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies.
- Crime statistics attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies.
- Crime statistics are gathered and reported by many countries and are of interest to several international organizations, including Interpol and the United Nations.
- First, they often use statistics from law enforcement organizations.
- These statistics are normally readily available and are generally reliable in terms of identifying what crime is being dealt with by law enforcement organizations, as they are gathered by law enforcement officers in the course of their duties, and are often extracted directly from law enforcement computer systems.
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- Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes.
- Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex.
- Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes.
- Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex.
- Sometimes criminal organizations force people to do business with them, as when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for "protection. " An organized gang or criminal set can also be referred to as a mob.
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- Their explanation was that some individuals had a biological propensity for crime.
- The term Lombroso used to describe the appearance of organisms resembling ancestral forms of life is atavism.
- Classical thinkers accepted the legal definition of crime uncritically; crime is what the law says it is.
- Most significant was Garofalo's reformulation of classical notions of crime and his redefinition of crime as a violation of natural law, or a human universal.
- Now, the conversation about crime and biological explanations focuses more on the relationship between genetics and crime than the relationship between phenotypic features and crime.
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- A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim.
- A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim.
- Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons.
- With the exception of rape (which accounts for 6% of all reported violent crimes), males are the primary victims of all forms of violent crime.
- The comparison of violent crime statistics between countries is usually problematic due to the way different countries classify crime.
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- Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
- Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
- Crimes may also result in cautions, rehabilitation, or be unenforced.
- Individual human societies may each define crime and crimes differently, in different localities, and at different time stages of the crime.
- Similarly, changes in the collection and calculation of data on crime may affect the public perceptions of the extent of any given "crime problem."
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- The peak age for property crime arrests in the United States is 16, compared to 18 for violent crime arrests.
- Property crime is a category of crime that includes larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, vandalism, and burglary .
- Property crimes are high-volume crimes, with cash, electronics, power tools, cameras, and jewelry often targeted.
- Some crime prevention programs, such as Neighborhood Watch, have shown little effectiveness in reducing burglary and other crime.
- The peak age for property crime arrests in the United States is 16, compared to 18 for violent crime arrests.
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- In the past, sociological research focused on the organization of complex, industrial societies and their influence on individuals.
- For instance, some sociologists research macro-structures that organize society, such as race or ethnicity, social class, gender, and institutions such as the family.
- Other sociologists study social processes that represent the breakdown of macro-structures, including deviance, crime, and divorce.