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THINKING ABOUT ORGANISED CRIMESTRUCTURE AND THREAT
MICHAEL LEVI
The term organised crime suggests a greater level of coherence
than exists in reality, while the major threat imagery it evokes is
useful for some purposes but
Organised crime is a curious The
Godfather Goodfellas or The Sopranos Underbelly
gestalt
banker or accountant wonders how
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not have been
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capacity to predatory
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Costs, Harms and Threats
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intriguing that when asked which crimes
did not
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evidence about actual risks and costs
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them to organised crime and assessing
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grounds that without organised crime
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strong enough to threaten or resist the
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occur within
some
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Table 1: Minimum
Direct Economic Cost ()
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A high level of
criminal group creates economies of scale
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public
Organising Crimes
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rate of growth
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associated with serious organised crime
organised-crime-related
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Intervening Against Organised Crimes
the dynamics
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caudillos
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commit crime
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concept
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reduced
Concluding Thoughts
organised crimes and the networks
Few individual elements of organised
threat
their crimes in their totality
countermeasures are needed to monitor
Michael Levi is Professor of Criminology
the control of white-collar and organised
Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe.
is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow
of the
The author would like to thank John
and the anonymous reviewers
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individuals as crimes such
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The :
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Second Report of the Inter-Departmental
Counts
Notes
Criminology th
The Character
in Control
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Territories
Crime Strategy
Journal
Further Insights into Aspects of the EU Illicit Drugs Market
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