What if you walked into your home and you saw your uncle on the ground with three bullets in his chest? He did not have three bullets in his chest because he shoot himself, but because he owed Nicky Barnes 300,000 dollars and did not pay his debt when it was do. This would be an example of and organized crime. On the other hand, what about a peanut company who add the wrong mixture by mistake and instead of degrading it, they continue to proceed to sell it on the market. While doing so they end up kill six people. This would be an example of and corporate crime. Over all in both crimes, they end up killing someone in the process right. Are organized crime and corporate crime the same? What are some examples of organized crime and corporate crime? How can organized crime and
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What is an organized crime? Organized crime has been hard to define. Organized crime seems to fit every crime a person has ever heard. The FBI defines organized crime as” any group having some matter of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities (Abadinsky 2013). When you read the definition above you could think of examples such as white collar crime or corporate crime, but it is not. Organized are is according to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized (Article 2 (a)) states that an “organized criminal group shall mean a structured group of three or more persons, existing for a period of time and acting in concert with the aim of committing one or more serious crimes or offences established in accordance with this Convention, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, financial or other material benefits (Abadinsky 2013). Organized crime has many examples of what would be considered organized crime. For example, Christopher “Dudus” Coke was the biggest crime lord in Jamaica. Coke had it made everyone wanted what he had and who he had. Coke control Jamaica for a very long time. Coke was even reward with
What is an organized crime? Organized crime has been hard to define. Organized crime seems to fit every crime a person has ever heard. The FBI defines organized crime as” any group having some matter of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities (Abadinsky 2013). When you read the definition above you could think of examples such as white collar crime or corporate crime, but it is not. Organized are is according to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized (Article 2 (a)) states that an “organized criminal group shall mean a structured group of three or more persons, existing for a period of time and acting in concert with the aim of committing one or more serious crimes or offences established in accordance with this Convention, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, financial or other material benefits (Abadinsky 2013). Organized crime has many examples of what would be considered organized crime. For example, Christopher “Dudus” Coke was the biggest crime lord in Jamaica. Coke had it made everyone wanted what he had and who he had. Coke control Jamaica for a very long time. Coke was even reward with