Organized crime is criminal structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specific goals. This research paper discusses the criminal structure, answering issues on how organized crime are structured, and how these structures lead to criminal activity and financial gains. The structure itself is divided into entrepreneurial, associational, and quasi-governmental. These three structures address the needs of access to resources, criminal behaviour ideology, social status in both criminal activity and society, and security from other bosses or from prosecution. The structure of organized crime has basic classification of forms in markets, networks, and hierarchies.
Each form focuses on different levels of interdependence …show more content…
This structure establishes and reinforces bonds between their respective members, and create a sense of exclusivity and sense of belonging. The associational criminal structures provide a boost in the social status in the criminal social world because under this structure the members are selected by worthiness and their unique set of skills, therefore, members are reliable and trustworthy. This becomes helpful as members have easy access to potential contacts, safe medium for information exchange and the combining of resources required to the commission. (Kleemans, Van de Bunt …show more content…
Contracts are enforced between criminals, such as buyer and seller of illegal drugs or firearms. This ensures that disputes go through the non-violent mechanism that reduces evidence of the altercation and avoiding law enforcement attention. A quasi-governmental criminal structure can also avoid attention and intervention of law enforcement by enabling corruption of the officials (Von Lampe 2016). This structure brings beneficial factors not just to members in high power but as well to the subordinates, thereby illegal entrepreneurial activities conducted are taxed (Von Lampe 2016). Those forming and functioning under governance structures share in the proceeds coming in from the crimes that are committed under their control, often the crimes are market-based and
Each form focuses on different levels of interdependence …show more content…
This structure establishes and reinforces bonds between their respective members, and create a sense of exclusivity and sense of belonging. The associational criminal structures provide a boost in the social status in the criminal social world because under this structure the members are selected by worthiness and their unique set of skills, therefore, members are reliable and trustworthy. This becomes helpful as members have easy access to potential contacts, safe medium for information exchange and the combining of resources required to the commission. (Kleemans, Van de Bunt …show more content…
Contracts are enforced between criminals, such as buyer and seller of illegal drugs or firearms. This ensures that disputes go through the non-violent mechanism that reduces evidence of the altercation and avoiding law enforcement attention. A quasi-governmental criminal structure can also avoid attention and intervention of law enforcement by enabling corruption of the officials (Von Lampe 2016). This structure brings beneficial factors not just to members in high power but as well to the subordinates, thereby illegal entrepreneurial activities conducted are taxed (Von Lampe 2016). Those forming and functioning under governance structures share in the proceeds coming in from the crimes that are committed under their control, often the crimes are market-based and