THE ORGANIZED SYNDICATE AND OTHER HIGH PROFILE CRIME
Organized crime is used in the most generic sense to refer to group crimes and includes many criminal behavior systems as well as “illicit enterprises” that might more appropriately be labeled professional, occupational, corporate, or even conventional criminal behavior. A more specific criminological definition would refer to groups that (1) utilize violence or threats of violence, (2) provide illicit goods that are in public demand, and (3) assure immunity for their operators through corruption and enforcement. (Hagan, 2010: 300)
It is a continuing criminal conspiracy seeking high profits with an organized structure that uses fear and corruption. (Hess, 2009: 87)
The definition above will tell us that criminal syndicates, on the other hand, need not be organized with complete staff including accountants and lawyers for survival in practical and legal problems. There is no need to corrupt government officials and they commit crimes just to fill their economic needs on a daily or regular basis. They possess some of the characteristics of an organized crime and a syndicate once discovered or one of them had been arrested or neutralized everyone scampered to their safety.
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