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Überveillance: 24/7 X 365 People Tracking & Monitoring, Mg. Michael, K. Michael Jul 2008

Überveillance: 24/7 X 365 People Tracking & Monitoring, Mg. Michael, K. Michael

Associate Professor Katina Michael

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The Paradigm Shift In Transnational Organised Crime, K. Michael Jul 2008

The Paradigm Shift In Transnational Organised Crime, K. Michael

Associate Professor Katina Michael

The definition of “organized crime” remains contentious because it has meant different things to different stakeholders over time. Does “organized crime” refer to illegal activities, relations between illegal organizations, how actors work together to engage in crimes, the infrastructure supporting crimes, or to the bricks and mortar of an illegal organization? Depending on the definition embraced by a stakeholder, their unit of analysis (eg crime group under investigation), and the particular time the study was conducted, an analyst may well be led to believe that some organized crime is really “disorganized” in nature. The two typologies of “organized” versus “disorganized” …