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Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit.While organized crime is generally thought of as a form of illegal business, some criminal organizations, such as terrorist groups, rebel forces, and separatists, are politically motivated.
Transnational organized crime (TOC) is organized crime coordinated across national borders, involving groups or markets of individuals working in more than one country to plan and execute illegal business ventures. [1] In order to achieve their goals, these criminal groups use systematic violence and corruption.
One of the subcategories used by the WEF is the prevalence of organised crime — listed under the "security" index. Extortion, racketeering, theft, violence, and property damage are all factors ...
Transnational organized crime (TOC) refers specifically to transnational crime carried out by crime organizations. [ 2 ] The word transnational describes crimes that are not only international (that is, crimes that cross borders between countries), but crimes that by their nature involve cross-border transference as an essential part of the ...
Giovanni Falcone, an anti-Mafia judge murdered by the Sicilian Mafia in 1992, objected to the conflation of the term Mafia with organized crime in general: While there was a time when people were reluctant to pronounce the word "Mafia" ... nowadays people have gone so far in the opposite direction that it has become an overused term ...
Pages in category "Organized crime by country" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Pages in category "Organized crime" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The term especially indicates the existence of involvement in what is known as big-time crime, which would include for example armed robbery, and the more organised aspects of careers within crime. [14] [15] A 1945 dictionary of criminal slang in the U.S. lists Big Brains as "a gang-leader", but not Mr Big. [16]