The impact of globalization has made the procurement of virtually any commodity for which a person is willing to pay for a real possibility. A 2012 Congressional Research Service report on organized crime, cites that “Organized crime groups are becoming more entrepreneurial or market focused, reacting to changes in both illicit and licit economies” (CRS 2012, 2). In other words, organized crime groups are operating under the same supply and demand principle that legitimate businesses are. It could be in the traditional form for which the public is accustomed to associating organized crime with such as cocaine, methamphetamine, heroine, marijuana, and more recently pharmaceuticals or precursor chemicals, but it could also be commercial products that have been banned in the US or just “hard to get” items. With the infiltration of organized crime on all coasts, there is no market in the world that is not being
The impact of globalization has made the procurement of virtually any commodity for which a person is willing to pay for a real possibility. A 2012 Congressional Research Service report on organized crime, cites that “Organized crime groups are becoming more entrepreneurial or market focused, reacting to changes in both illicit and licit economies” (CRS 2012, 2). In other words, organized crime groups are operating under the same supply and demand principle that legitimate businesses are. It could be in the traditional form for which the public is accustomed to associating organized crime with such as cocaine, methamphetamine, heroine, marijuana, and more recently pharmaceuticals or precursor chemicals, but it could also be commercial products that have been banned in the US or just “hard to get” items. With the infiltration of organized crime on all coasts, there is no market in the world that is not being