Concept information
Preferred term
sociology of organized crime
Definition
- Establishing a concrete definition of organized crime is rather difficult given the multidimensionality of scholarship surrounding criminal organizations. Because working definitions of organized crime have been offered by disciplines such as economics, criminology, political science, international affairs, and anthropology, determining the precise elements of a criminal organization and organized crime itself becomes difficult. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Organized Crime, Sociology of]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/sociology_of_organized_crime
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