No one really knows in which terms organized crime is affecting our society. There is no official information, nor data that could shed light on this issue. No official records about arrests or convictions for organized crime. At this point, the question would be, why is there no information about a crime that can affect our world economic and socially on such a broad scale? The reason that justifies this lack of data is that organized crime is not a real legal category, but a composition of other crimes that in general terms, are committed in a criminal organization. This composition includes both federal and state crimes, such as murder for hire, drug trafficking, prostitution or sexual exploitation of children (federal) and murder, kidnapping or robbery (state crimes).
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (known as RICO), regulated in the Title 18, Part I, Chapter 96 of the U.S. Code, is often used to prosecute these actions. This Chapter (§ 1961-1968) includes a series of crimes that are committed inside of a criminal organization and that could be included under the title of Organized Crime. …show more content…
However, what is organized crime? The current law definition of organized crime, given by Wesley B. Knowles (2010), claims that it is a combination of ‘’the unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized, disciplined association engaged in supplying illegal goods and services, including but not limited to gambling, prostitution, loan sharking, narcotics, labor racketeering, and other unlawful activities of members of such organizations’’ (p.5). This definition will be developed and discussed in the following
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (known as RICO), regulated in the Title 18, Part I, Chapter 96 of the U.S. Code, is often used to prosecute these actions. This Chapter (§ 1961-1968) includes a series of crimes that are committed inside of a criminal organization and that could be included under the title of Organized Crime. …show more content…
However, what is organized crime? The current law definition of organized crime, given by Wesley B. Knowles (2010), claims that it is a combination of ‘’the unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized, disciplined association engaged in supplying illegal goods and services, including but not limited to gambling, prostitution, loan sharking, narcotics, labor racketeering, and other unlawful activities of members of such organizations’’ (p.5). This definition will be developed and discussed in the following