SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Organized Crime, Corporate Crime, Social Disorganization Theory
18 Apr 2017
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Degree of organization: a group of people coming together (more than 4 people) Purpose: usually a purpose the reason they come together (ie: drugs). division of labor / planning / rules / reward & punishment / advancement- people doing different things (typically a hierarchy). If you deviate from it, you may be punished. A system of reward and punishment (ie: school is the grade system, salary that they get) The advancement is how high they could get up. Any group of people that have this is an organized system. What makes it crime and not an organized system: Legal status of method of achieving purpose: what they are doing is illegal. The purpose is not as clear in a ganged as compared to an organized crime. Flat\flap organization- different groups of people operating separately, so there is no way to destroy it or track it down.
