Organized crime and Corporate Crime

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Organized crime and Corporate Crime

• had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a
  voice of iron and a chest of brass, I could not
  tell all the forms of crime Virgil (70-19 B.C.)

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Introduction

• Economic crimes of the powerful and/or
  influential
• Evolution of the concept of greed
• Piracy past and present
• Defining Organized Crime
• H. Abadinsky 1976 Am Task Force
• Two or persons
• Supply illegal goods
• predatory

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• CDN Criminal Code
• enterprise crime s. 462.3 (Box 11.4)
• Attributes
• Nonideological
• Hierarchical
• Limited or exclusive membership
• Perpetuous
• Specialization or division of labour
• Monopolistic
• Rules and regulations

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Crime Groups in Canada

• Aboriginal crime groups
• Kahnawake St. Regis smuggling cigarettes,
  alcohol and illegal gambling operations
• ? manufactured organized crime
• Power of the black market
• CP through social development

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• Cartels
• Definition
• Drugs Columbia, Nigeria, Japanese, Russian
• Threats to democracy and national security
• Transcend borders tour de force
• Counter measures

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• Ethnic groups
• ? An assimilation problem
• Influence of past social and political
  environment
• The power of violence (Vietnamese)
• International recognition (e.g., Netherlands)
• Role of immigration (?)

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• Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
• Rebellion or misaligned?
• Ritualism and retreatism
• Hells Angels and Harleys
• A subculture of capitalist system
• Evolved in level of sophistication
• Chain of command
• Use of violence and bribery
• Defined rules and regulations

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• Explaining organized crime
• Definitional challenge
• Che Guevara
• Crusaders of 1100-1300s
• Some foreign governments
• Strain, blocked opportunity, and anomie
• Functionalism
• Line between crime and government!

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• SUMMARY
• Widespread!
• Economic impact!!
• Providing an illicit market
• Definitional challenge
• O.C. is formalized and highly structures
• To counter requires
• Interdisciplinary, integrated, and international
  approach

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Corporate Crime

• Crimes against public order by big business
• The good bad corporate citizen
• White collar crime E. Sutherland
• Pervasive in society
• Challenge to counter

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• Computer and High Technology Crime
• Highly profitable
• and relatively risk free
• Types of computer crimes
• Ss. 342.1 430
• Law enforcement resources limited

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• Explaining Corporate Crime
• Differential association
• Conflict perspective
• Neutralization
• Shaming
• Power of being economically motivated
• NO single theory or strategy sufficient

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SUMMARY

• Organized crime and corporate crime pervasive
• Differ in characteristics but similar in modus
  operandi
• Intervention efforts minimal
• Temptation powerful
• Role of an interdisciplinary and integrated
  approach

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