Organized Crime

Running head: ORGANIZED CRIME 1
ORGANIZED CRIME
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ORGANZED CRIMES 2
Ques 1- Organized crime network or groups are involved in legitimate and
illegitimate activities. Using specific examples, show how connection between legitimate and
illegitimate activities or organizations work to maintain power/control or position of Organized
crime in society or country/region.
Organized crime groups offers a wide array of unlawful services and goods. This type of
criminal activity usually victimizes companies through the application of theft, extortion and
fraud such as hijacking robbing goods, cargo trucks, committing insurance fraud/stock fraud as
well as bankruptcy fraud. Organized crime also oppress people by car theft ,shoplifting, bank
robbery art theft, gems, burglary, and jewelry robberies and heists, credit card theft, computer
hacking, embezzlement, identity theft, economic espionage, and securities theft . A good number
of organized crime usually defraud national, state governments through bid rigging of
community projects (Murakami, 2017).
Organized criminals operates illegally activities and then invest their crime profits in a
legal business, which in turn gives them money. Having obtained money ,the criminal groups
tend to influence society in their favor in order to create a conducive atmosphere for their
criminal activities. A good example is mafia group which is organized crime group which
focusses in the offering extra-legal protection(Dinev, 2014). The group also has a wide range of
investments such as night clubs, jewelry shops as well as clothing store. The mafia received
money from their illegal activities and then invest it in clean businesses this gave them power to
influence society through corruption and bribery in order to get want they want.