Organized crime or criminal organizations is a transnational grouping of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority may ultimately prescribe a conviction. While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime; for example: breaches of contract and of other civil law may rank as "offences" or as "infractions" for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary Money is anything that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value, and occasionally, a standard of deferred payment profit In neoclassical economics, economic profit, or profit, is the difference between a firm's total revenue and its opportunity costs. In classical economics profit is the return to the employer of capital stock in any productive pursuit involving labor. These two definitions are actually the same. In both instances economic profit is the return to an. The Organized Crime Control Act The Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 , was an Act of Congress sponsored by Democratic Senator John L. McClellan and signed into law by U.S. President Richard Nixon (U.S. The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the, 1970) defines organized crime as "The unlawful activities of [...] a highly organized, disciplined association [...]".[1]
Mafia is a term used to describe a number of criminal Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority may ultimately prescribe a conviction. While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime; for example: breaches of contract and of other civil law may rank as "offences" or as "infractions" organizations around the world. The first organization to bear the label was the Sicilian Mafia based in Italy Italy /ˈɪtəli/ (Italian: Italia, [iˈta:lja]), officially the Italian Republic (Italian: Repubblica Italiana), is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, known to its members as Cosa Nostra The Mafia is a Sicilian criminal society which is believed to have emerged in late 19th century Sicily, and the first such society to be referred to as a mafia (although it is not the first organized criminal society to appear in Italy). It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct. In the United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the, "the Mafia" generally refers to the American Mafia The American Mafia ; also known as Cosa Nostra (sometimes lower case like "cosa nostra") or La Cosa Nostra (Joe Valachi announced the name, and the 'La' part is what the FBI has given the name as well, even abbreviating to LCN), also Our Thing, and This Thing of Ours, it is an Italian-American criminal society and offshoot of the. Other powerful organizations described as mafias include the Russian Mafia The Russian Mafia or Bratva (Братва; slang for "brotherhood", which applies to all gangs, including rivals) — often transliterated as Mafiya — are names designating a diverse group of organized crime syndicates originating in the former Soviet Union, Russia and the CIS. Since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, these groups have, the Chinese Triads, the Albanian Mafia The Albanian Mafia or Albanian Organized Crime (AOC) are the general terms used for various criminal organizations based in Albania or composed of ethnic Albanians. Albanian criminals are significantly active in the United States and the European Union (EU) countries, participating in a diverse range of criminal enterprises including drug and arms, the Irish Mob The Irish Mob is one of the oldest organized crime groups in the United States, in existence since the early 19th century. Originating in Irish American street gangs, as immortalized in Herbert Asbury's 1928 book The Gangs of New York, the Irish Mob has appeared in most major American cities, including Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago,, the Japanese Yakuza Yakuza , also known as gokudō (極道?) and violence groups, are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan, the Neapolitan Camorra, the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, the Indian Mafia, the Unione Corse, Serbian Mafia, and the Bulgarian mafia Bulgarian organised crime groups are involved in a wide range of activities, including drug trafficking, cigarette smuggling, human trafficking, prostitution, illicit antiquities trafficking, extortion and the arms trade. They appear to have connections with the Russian Mafia, Croatian mafia, Serbian Mafia, Macedonian Mafia and the Italian Cosa. There are also a number of localized mafia organizations around the world bearing no link to any specific racial background.
Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. At present, there is no internationally agreed definition of terrorism. Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear , are perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to a lone attack), and deliberately target or, are politically motivated (see VNSA Violent non-state actor , refers to any organization that uses illegal violence (i.e. force not officially approved of by the state) to reach its goals, thereby contesting the monopoly on violence of the (Westphalian) state.[citation needed] The term has been used in several papers published by the United States military). Gangs A gang is a group of three or more people who, through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, share a common identity. In current usage it typically denotes a criminal organization or else a criminal affiliation. In early usage, the word gang referred to a group of workmen. In the United Kingdom the word is still often that become "disciplined" enough to be considered "organized". An organized gang or criminal set can also be referred to as a mob. The act of engaging in criminal activity as a structured group is referred to in the United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the as racketeering Several forms of racket exist. The best-known is the protection racket, in which criminals demand money from businesses in exchange for the service of "protection" against crimes that the racketeers themselves instigate if unpaid. A second well known example is the numbers racket, a form of illegal lottery.
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