Theories of Organized Crime

Organized crime is a complex animal. It is defined as a group of highly centralized projects of multinational, national or local governments, most commonly managed by offenders who intend to conduct illegal acts to gain financial gain (FBI, 2010). Organized crime is unique in terms of organizational elements. This organizational structure helps to distinguish between the definition of organized crime and the group definition of people involved in criminal activities. (FBI, 2010). According to organized crime analyst Kristin Finklea, in the Congressional Report of 2010, the organizational aspects needed to organize crime required specific organizational elements.

According to Liddick's view (1999 organizational crime theory can be divided into three major theoretical prototypes: a foreign conspiracy / bureaucratic paradigm, a corporate approach, and a customer-customer relationship perspective. The main characteristic of crime is its hierarchical organization and people seek adjustment and conspiracy, which is the mainstream of law enforcement in North America and has been very unsuccessful in understanding and coping with organized crime ( Geary, 2002) Although the leader of the criminal group of the fixed organization is supposed to end the criminal activity, it definitely does not kill the key person, collapse the organization and prevent the criminal activity.

According to Lyman (2007) "The theory of organized crime theory helps to understand criminal organizations There are three ways to organize crime to help understand criminal organizations: the first theory is American Secondly, rational choice theory refers to the strengths and weaknesses of balanced lifestyle of human rights, and they also describe what the consequences of their actions are know.

There are several theories about the origins and causes of organized crime. One of them is alien conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory of aliens thinks that the cause of criminal activity is external influence. This argues that criminals moved to the United States and established criminal organizations here (Rogers, 2011). This theory is supported by American film director. Most movies about organized crime draw an organization leader as a foreigner. They walk, clothes, and act in some way. Alien conspiracy theory claims that organized crime was prominent in Sicily in the 1860s and Sicilian immigrants consisted of a family of offenders ruled by 25 or so Italians. These families, also known as La Cosa Nostra, are composed of about 1,700 wise men or men (Lyman & Potter, 2007). This theory also shows strong family ties