Organized Crime

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• Organized crime — Crime syndicate redirects here. For the DC Comics group of villains, see Crime Syndicate. For other uses, see Organized crime (disambiguation). Al Capone, a name often associated with organized crime …   Wikipedia

• organized crime — n. a system or organization of people and groups engaged in criminal activities * * * Crime committed on a national or international scale by a criminal association; also, the associations themselves. Such associations engage in offenses such as… …   Universalium

• organized crime — n: criminal activity on the part of an organized and extensive group of people compare racketeering Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. organiz …   Law dictionary

• organized crime — n. Groups of persons organized for illegal purposes, such as bootlegging, conducting illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion, etc.; a general term encompassing most forms of criminal groups, but especially those that are consolidated into… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• organized crime — n [U] a large and powerful organization of criminals ▪ Organized crime is involved in drug trafficking …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• organized crime — [n] the underworld Cosa Nostra, gangland, Mafia, mob, organized crime family, the syndicate; concepts 412,645 …   New thesaurus

• organized crime — noun uncount criminal activities that are carefully planned and controlled by a large powerful secret organization …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• organized crime — n. a system or organization of people and groups engaged in criminal activities …   English World dictionary

• Organized crime —    There has always been organized crime in Russia. In the last days of the tsars, criminal gangs flourished. In the first days of the 1917 Revolution, many of their members joined the Red Guards and the Cheka. After the civil war, they were… …   Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

• organized crime — All profitable crime is socially organized, but this term is usually reserved for situations where a large number of people in a hierarchical structure are engaged in an on going pattern of criminal activities. The most common activities are… …   Dictionary of sociology