Organized crime is the illegal activity of people and organizations whose acknowledged purpose is profit through illegitimate business enterprise. Organized crime involves marketing techniques (threat, extortion, smuggling) and products (drugs, sex, gambling, loan-sharking, pornography) that have been outlawed. The system resembles a legitimate business enterprise, and may even have a corporate executive structure, a staff of assistants, and accountants, but it's far from legitimate because the business was set up by force, intimidation or threat (Anon, 1988). The members of a criminal organization are really gangsters, professional criminals who are trying to live the life and mystique glamorized by legendary figures for example Al Cap
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