SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Anomie, Embezzlement, Contract Killing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

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Italian mafia, biker gangs, etc: sometimes business or corporations can be involved in organized crime. They would raid ships that were carrying goods to and from colonies. They would then sell those illegally acquired goods. Any group having a corporate structure whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities, often surviving on fear and corruption (interpol 1988) Activities of organized criminal organizations include alien smuggling (illegal immigrants), armed assault, car theft, drug dealing, trafficking radioactive material, fraud, exploitation through prostitution, chemical terrorism, gambling, etc. Good example of merton"s strain theory (lack legitimate means to achieve culturally. Involved in crimes ranging from cigarette smuggling to illegal gambling approved goals: aboriginal crime groups seek illegitimate means because they lack the economic opportunities to do otherwise. Most aboriginal groups are wannabe groups or criminal business organizations. Some have been involved in very serious criminal activity e. g. , there was a raid at the.