Organized Crime Investigation: Saint Mary's University - Criminology Review Center
Organized Crime Investigation: Saint Mary's University - Criminology Review Center
refers to a business whose product, service, or person, a group of people, a company, or any
equipment is of questionable quality. other kind of organization. The hired party may
Stolen cars are sold in foreign countries also be one person, such as a hitman, or a group
for several reasons. In under-developed of people, or an organization.
countries, there are often fewer rules and less
enforcement of laws pertaining to plates and 9. Copyright infringement – is the unauthorized or
title paperwork, so the car is less likely to be prohibited use of works under copyright,
noticed. Criminals are also hopeful that there is infringing the copyright holder's exclusive
little incentive on the part of the victim to search rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform
in other countries, since even if the car is found, the copyrighted work, or to makederivative
it may cost more (in detective, legal, and works.
transportation fees) than the car is actually
worth. This is especially true if the stolen car is 10. Counterfeit – means to illegally imitate
of lesser value. something. Counterfeit products are often
produced with the intent to take advantage of
6. Cigarette smuggling – is the illicit transportation
the superior value of the imitated product. The
of cigarettes from an administrative division
word counterfeit frequently describes both the
with low taxation to a division with high
forgeries of currency and documents, as well as
taxation for sale and consumption. The practice,
the imitations of works
commonly used by Organized crimesyndicates
ofart, clothing, software, pharmaceuticals, watc
and rebel groups, is a form of tax evasion.
hes, electronics and company logos and brands.
In the case of goods, it results in patent
7. Computer crime, or cybercrime, refers to any
infringement or trademark infringement.
crime that involves a computer and a network.
Additionally, it is fairly common in big cities for
The computer may have been used in the
would-be criminals to sell counterfeit illegal
commission of a crime, or it may be the
drugs, such as a bag of pure baking soda sold
target. Net crime refers to criminal exploitation
as cocaine or heroin, or a bag of oreganosold
of theInternet. Such crimes may threaten a
as marijuana. This takes advantage of the
nation’s security and financial health Issues
extremely high prices of illicit drugs and the
surrounding this type of crime have become
relatively low prices of common materials such
high-profile, particularly those
as baking soda and oregano, as well as taking
surrounding cracking, copyright
advantage of the similarity in appearances that
infringement, child pornography, and child
certain house-hold items share with certain illicit
grooming. There are also problems
drugs.
of privacy when confidential information is lost
or intercepted, lawfully or otherwise.
11. Illegal drug trade – is a global black market,
Internationally, both governmental and
dedicated to cultivation, manufacture,
non-state actors engage in cybercrimes,
distribution and sale of those substances which
including espionage, financial theft, and other
are subject to drug prohibition laws. Most
cross-border crimes. Activity crossing
jurisdictions prohibit trade, except
international borders and involving the interests
under license, of many types of drugs by drug
of at least one nationstate is sometimes referred
prohibition laws.
to as cyber warfare. The international legal
system is attempting to hold actors accountable
12. Extortion – (also
for their actions through the International
called shakedown, outwresting, and exaction) is
Criminal Court.
acriminal offence which occurs when a
8. Contract killing – is a form of murder, in which person unlawfully obtains either money,
one party hires another party to kill a target property or services from a person(s), entity, or
individual or group of people. It involves institution, throughcoercion. Refraining from
an illegal agreementbetween two parties in doing harm is sometimes euphemistically
which one party agrees to kill the target in calledprotection. Extortion is commonly
exchange forconsideration, monetary, or practiced by organized crime groups. The actual
otherwise. The hiring party may be a single obtainment of money or property is not
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Subject: Organized Crime Investigation
required to commit the offense. Making 16. Illegal immigration – is the migration of foreign
a threat of violence which refers to a citizens into a country in circumstances where
requirement of a payment of money or property such people do not meet the legal requirements
to halt future violence is sufficient to commit the for immigrating in that country, that is, when
offense. Exaction refers not only to extortion or they are violating the immigration laws of that
the unlawful demanding and obtaining of jurisdiction.
something through force,[1] but additionally, in It is usually called "illegal immigration,"
its formal definition, means the infliction of however the term "irregular immigration" is
something such as pain and suffering or making now considered the preferred terminology by
somebody endure something unpleasant. international governmental and non-
governmental organizations, such as the United
13. Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human Nations agency theInternational Labour
beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, Organization (ILO), the International
commercial sexual exploitation, forced labour, Organization for Migration (IOM) and others.
or a modern-day form of slavery. "Unauthorized immigration" is another term
which is occasionally used to refer to this form
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish of migration. The term "undocumented
Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and immigration" is used as well, though it is
Children (also referred to as the Trafficking considered less inclusive than "irregular
Protocol) was adopted by the United immigration."
Nations in Palermo, Italy in 2000, and is an
international legal agreement attached to the
17. Money laundering – is disguising illegal sources
United Nations Convention against
of money so that it looks like it came from legal
Transnational Organized Crime. The Trafficking
sources. The methods by which money may be
Protocol is one of three Protocols adopted to
laundered are varied and can range in
supplement the Convention.
sophistication. Many regulatory and
governmental authorities quote estimates each
14. Identity theft – is a form of fraud or cheating of
year for the amount of money laundered, either
another person's identity in which someone
worldwide or within their national economy. In
pretends to be someone else by assuming that
1996 the International Monetary Fund estimated
person's identity, typically in order to access
that two to five percent of the worldwide global
resources or obtain credit and other benefits in
economy involved laundered money. However,
that person's name. The victim of identity theft
the FATF, an intergovernmental body set up to
(here meaning the person whose identity has
combat money laundering, admitted that
been assumed by the identity thief) can suffer
"overall it is absolutely impossible to produce a
adverse consequences if he or she is held
reliable estimate of the amount of money
accountable for the perpetrator's actions.
laundered and therefore the FATF does not
Organizations and individuals who are duped or
publish any figures in this regard." Academic
defrauded by the identity thief can also suffer
commentators have likewise been unable to
adverse consequences and losses, and to that
estimate the volume of money with any degree
extent are also victims.
of assurance.
f. THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE (SOUTHEAST ASIA) in law enforcement like Marshal Burt Alvord who
subsequently became an outlaw, and some outlaws
The Golden Triangle – is one of Asia's two main
like Johnny Ringo were deputized at one time or
illicit opium-producing areas. It is an area of around
another. Some of the gunfighters listed included
367,000 square miles (950,000 km2) that overlaps
professional scouts, businessmen, or even doctors.
the mountains of four countries ofSoutheast
Asia: Burma, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Along The majority of outlaws in the Old West preyed on
with Afghanistan in the Golden banks, trains, and stagecoaches. Some crimes were
Crescent andPakistan, it has been one of the most carried out by Mexicans and Native Americans
extensive opium-producing areas of Asia and of the against white citizens who were targets of
world since the 1920s. Most of the opportunity along the U.S.–Mexico border,
world's heroin came from the Golden Triangle until particularly in Texas, Arizona, and California. For
the early 21st century when Afghanistan became the example Pancho Villa was
world's largest producer.[1] a bandit from Durango, Mexico who also conducted
cross-border raids into New Mexico and Texas. Some
The Golden Triangle also designates the confluence
individuals, like Jesse James, became outlaws after
of the Ruak River and the Mekong river, since the
serving in the Civil War and others were simply men
term has been appropriated by the Thai tourist
who took advantage of the wildness and lawlessness
industry to describe the nearby junction of Thailand,
of the frontier to enrich themselves at the expense
Laos, and Myanmar.
of others. Some outlaws migrated to the frontier to
g. escape prosecution for crimes elsewhere.