Organized crime is not only an object of academic study but also a practical problem about which something needs to be done. Policies aimed at the control of organized crime have tended to emphasize one of two types of strategies. The first targets the members of organized crime groups while the second focuses on the structural characteristics and market relationships that make organized crime possible.
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It is important to stress that these two broad strategies are not in conflict with each other. However, they do reflect quite different assumptions about how the human and economic resources available for the control of organized crime should be employed.
Some analysts argue that instead of focusing on the members of organized crime, we should focus on the environment within such as the businesses that comprise organized crime operates.
If you look at it this way, instead of law enforcement interventions they would rather a market aspect of operation. One such intervention aims to decriminalize or legalize those goods and services that form the basis for many organized crime markets. |
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