CONCEPTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANIZED CRIME
Investigators attempting to analyze the structure and functioning of particular organized criminal groups have pointed to the need for additional case studies, which would help to confirm or deny their findings in individual circumstances. A question on how criminologists in their own understanding through comprehensive study and research provide a clear view as to what this problem is all about. In other countries, criminologists never stop discovering it, “except in the Philippines”.
Many researchers have argued that there is a need for information, “about the organized criminal activity itself, by which the government’s new legislation and its expanding level of effort can be evaluated.” Of course, the absence of a consensus about the fundamental definition of organized crime can hamper the potential success of crime control programs designed to combat it.
This is what I said when I say how will congress enact a law that will curb white-collar crime as an example of organized crime when some people in congress are probably involved in it?
Instead, based on several works, including that of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) rather, it described and offers several characteristics of “criminal groups,” “protectors,” and “specialist support” necessary for understanding organized crime, and that is the content of our video presentation below!
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