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      • Organized crime undermines international peace and security by sustaining violence and armed conflict. The illicit arms trade is ranked as the third most pervasive illicit market globally. The illicit flow of arms escalates conflict and heightens conflict risk, and facilitates violent crime and other organized criminal activities.
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      Transnational organized crime: A threat to global public goods

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    Organized crime thrives worldwide, affecting governance and political processes, and weakening the advancement of the rule of law. It encompasses, inter alia, illicit trafficking of firearms, drugs, protected species, cultural property, or falsified medical products and, among its most severe manifestations, human trafficking and the smuggling ...

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  4. www.occrp.org › en › newsReport: Organized Crime Exacerbating World’s Major Problems

    Mar 12, 2021 · Transnational organised crime has grown exponentially since the early 1990s and is now a key factor exacerbating many of the world’s major problems, including climate change, mass migration, economic inequality and political instability, according to areport published Thursday.

  5. www.unodc.org › e4j › enOrganized Crime Module 1 Key Issues: Defining Organized Crime

    Organized crime is a continuing criminal enterprise that rationally works to profit from illicit activities that are often in great public demand. Its continuing existence is maintained through corruption of public officials and the use of intimidation, threats or force to protect its operations.

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  7. www.unodc.org › toc › enTransnational organized crime: the globalized illegal economy

    Transnational organized crime is not stagnant, but is an ever-changing industry, adapting to markets and creating new forms of crime. In short, it is an illicit business that transcends cultural, social, linguistic and geographical boundaries and one that knows no borders or rules.

  8. www.britannica.com › topic › organized-crimeOrganized crime | Definition, History, Characteristics, & Facts

    Sep 20, 2024 · Organized crime, complex of highly centralized enterprises set up for the purpose of engaging in illegal activities. The main source of income for these syndicates is the supply of goods and services that are illegal but for which there is still public demand, such as drugs, prostitution, loan-sharking, and gambling.

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  9. police.un.org › en › serious-and-organized-crimeSerious and Organized Crime | United Nations Police

    Organized crime is often both a product of and contributor to conflict in vulnerable states. The United Nations recognizes the grave threat it poses to mandate implementation, mission...

  10. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 386621 Organized Crime: A Contested Concept - Oxford Academic

    One of the main arguments of the essay is that the understanding of organized crime has shifted back and forth between two rival notions: (1) a set of stable organizations illegal per se or whose members systematically engage in crime, and (2) a set of serious criminal activities mostly carried out for monetary gain.